[…] having the best of both worlds. We traced the original leftist influence to a pal of his at Cambridge when they were undergraduates. This chap was a communist sympathiser and remained in close touch with Mountbatten for many years. …He was not the only left winger engaged in work of national importance by Mountbatten. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] the Prosecution to present a list of prejudicial points and assertions which undermined my credibility and character in the jury’s eyes: I was a member of the Communist Party in the early 1970s. Oshchenko was a KGB officer in London in the 1970s and had defected in 1992. Oshchenko recruited me as a KGB […]
[…] progress – is political. They argue that the distinction between left and right isn’t meaningful any more. They want to reclaim the humanist, libertarian mantle from the communist movement of old. They hate consensus, have no desire to make common cause and love to provoke what they see as the stagnant agenda of liberal […]
[…] an important role in both.11 To this day the money from Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, an offspring of the KCIA and the related Asian People’s Anti- Communist League (APACL, later the World Anti-Communist League or WACL), continues to subsidise the right-wing Washington Times.12 Two deeper factors reinforce the continuity sketched in the preceding […]
