[…] irresponsible acts”. Prewett called this “an all-time low in pronouncement of US foreign policy”, and mocked the notion that “unless we stop the Alpha 66 raids against Communist Cuba, there’ll be nuclear conflict.” Three weeks later, after President Kennedy ordered strong measures against would-be exile raiders, Prewett rushed to support the exile leadership and […]
[…] peace flight to Britain, six weeks before the Germans invaded Russia. Yet outside the pilots’ log books there exists no official record of their mission. In post-war Communist Czechoslovakia, many ex-RAF pilots were picked by the STB secret police and jailed or drafted down the mines. Stories of their exploits could not be published. […]
[…] who theorised and rendered the process possible – in terms of a Gramscian war of position or construction of a hegemony – were former members of the Communist Party or members of the Demos think tank. Names like Peter Mandelson, Stuart Hall, Martin Kettle and Martin Jacques spring to mind immediately What particularly interests […]
[…] pieces of research by Desmond Fernandes on the European-wide oppression of the Kurds. The first is ‘United States and NATO inspired “psychological warfare operations” against the “Kurdish communist threat” in Turkey’, published in the Glasgow-based magazineVariant no. 12: www.ndirect.co.uk/~variant The second is a monograph,The Targeting and Criminalisation of Kurdish Asylum Seekers and Refugee Communities […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist. (The fascist menace.) In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left. (The communist menace.)(3) As well as being a reflexive response, ‘contamination’ or anathematization is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and, within their […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Vice-President, a post from which I resigned and went back to my course. While living in Sheffield in 1977, I had been briefly a member of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Netherthorpe Branch. Pat had told me that Legg’s job was positively vetted; consequently I asked her whether my political background was […]
