[…] parties or terrorist groups are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of […]
[…] former LCPA secretary, active in Fiji before coup and in breaking the trade ban in Australia afterwards. John Whitehall – Australian chief of the US-based Christian Anti- communist Crusade, who claims to have been in Fiji during the coup, and was on a lecture tour of New Zealand after it. Colin Rubinstein – right-wing […]
[…] by President Carter because he publicly opposed the withdrawal of some ground forces from South Korea. This may be explained by his membership of the World Anti- Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former […]
[…] and race issues into the CPGB and wider Labour Movement. ‘There was nothing Marxist about any of this. These issues were used quite deliberately to undermine the Communist Party and the Labour Movement in general.’ (emphasis added) This is an interesting claim which I have heard before; but, like the rest of the book, […]
[…] well known. Ron Gostick is the head of Butler’s League of Rights’ Canadian branch and is currently a member of the Canadian affiliate to the World Anti- Communist League.(3) As far back as 1967 Gostick and Butler were referred to as “associates” of the Candour League of Rhodesia.(4) Two of the other ‘associates’ mentioned […]
[…] Labour politics. George Robertson, whose slavish devotion to all things American Galloway ran up against early in his career, is one of them. John Reid, the ex- Communist who is now Blair’s leading studio casuist, is another with whom Galloway has regular done battle, occasionally physically, he tells us. Galloway also goes back a […]
[…] and the last thing he would have wished on himself was another Cuban crisis in his first days in office. The FBI, the great seekers of ‘ Communist conspiracies’ may be presumed to be eager not to be revealed as having missed the big one, the only such ‘communist conspiracy’ worth a damn since […]
[…] for the World Wildlife Fund. Reuben Falber An obituary of Reuben Falber appeared in the The Independent 31 May 2006. Falber had been the contact between the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Soviet Embassy in London. Falber collected and disbursed the Soviet government’s secret subsidies to the CPGB from 1958 onwards. […]
[…] contribution to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like […]
[…] (Schlesinger and Kinzer, London 1982) makes it very clear that U.F.Co. launched a massive PR campaign in the US to persuade so-called “policy makers” of the “ communist threat” to Guatemala. Without that campaign those “geopolitical considerations” would never have been perceived. And then as now, “geopolitical considerations” is merely a euphemism for “communist […]
