[…] Sir John Whitmore.(16) They visited Warsaw in 1974 where they set up a radio receiver, supposedly to receive signals about an imminent alien invasion of Earth. The Communist bloc took a dim view of this, considering (correctly in the case of Puharich) that they were CIA agents and expelling them. Seifer does not dwell […]
[…] Generation membership in its early days a decade ago. SDP activists Other SDP activists receiving early invitations to join the Successor Project were Sue Slipman, the former Communist president of the National Union of Students; Penny Cooper, an old Communist party and NUS colleague of Slipman’s who, like her, was a founder member of […]
[…] ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been portrayed as one of deception, secret funding, rigged ballots, suspected secret service penetration and lunatic purges.(1) His development of […]
[…] extremely interesting and massively detailed account of the politics of the student movement before and during the early years of the Cold War. Centrally it shows how Communist Party members from various countries, under presumed if not illustrated Soviet control, created the World Federation of Democratic Youth and the International Union of Students; with […]
Inside the League Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson (Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1986) This is the only book I know on the World Anti- Communist League. Most of it is new to me but the few bits I am familiar with look accurate, and it is reasonably well documented. It is […]
[…] their own side for the ‘crime’ of battle fatigue. Without this Liberal-Democratic Holocaust’ (which altogether cost 17 million lives) there would have been no Russian Revolution, no Communist International and no Stalinism. Nor would there have been the fascist regimes in Western Europe, which took power with the connivance of big business, and a […]
[…] recently over the debacle in Iraq. You may be thinking that I am anti-American. Not so: but I am anti-American foreign policy. My parents were in the Communist Party until the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956; and I grew up in a climate in which the instinctive reaction to any foreign policy issue […]
[…] there were some comments of the former British Leyland boss Michael Edwardes who described going to the Cabinet Office to read the minutes of meetings between ‘the Communist Party and our shop stewards……..It was absolutely clear – the intention was to break the company…….bring the company down, bring the country down.’ This didn’t sound […]
[…] two bordering streets, and thus had two addresses: 531 Lafayette Street and 544 Camp Street. The building was part-rented by William Guy Bannister, a racist, violent anti- communist, and member of the John Birch Society. Bannister served in the FBI and had risen to be Special Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau’s Chicago office. After retiring […]
[…] almost anyone else..’ (p. 112) ‘He would have been the obvious choice removing communists from MI5 (p. 124) ‘There is another pointer to Hollis’s collusion with the Communist Party’ (p. 124) ‘Hollis also took the view, it seems‘ (p. 125) ‘Hollis would have known that there was already a file on Burgess…’ (p. 129) […]
