The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
[…] ‘displeasure of UVF Brigade Staff’, and proferred his opinion that their lives and commitment to proletarian struggle — they were members of an obscure Maoist sect, the Communist Party of England — Marxist Leninist — might soon be discontinued. (11) At the very least, this letter is tasteless, but such sentiments (expressed both publicly […]
[…] League for European Freedom (SLEF). Later, personnel from the SLEF and its partner organisation the British League for European Freedom turned out to overlap with the anti- communist group Common Cause.() The SLEF was a group which formally campaigned on behalf of the Eastern European peoples who found themselves under Soviet rule at the […]
[…] ‘…the Civil Service was intensely disloyal. Peter Shore was my minister. Most of my colleagues thought he was a “fellow traveller”; and Benn was regarded as a Communist…. In the whole of Whitehall, at the middle level, there was fear all over the place, and the “antis” were being labelled as Communists and “fellow […]
[…] but there isn’t any evidence. After the rioting in Handsworth in Birmingham, Shipley explained to the readers of the Daily Telegraph (12/9/85) that members of the Revolutionary Communist Party ‘were present in Birmingham in the days preceding the outbreak of this week’s rioting, ostensibly to hold meetings – some on the streets – about […]
[…] the media treat, for example, the crushing of the Turkish trade union movement under the military regime in 1981 versus their treatment of Solidarity’s repression by the Communist regime in Poland in the same year. Or how they treat the Polish Communist government’s killing of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984 versus the […]
[…] network reviewed below, trace intelligence gun-for-hire Litvinenko’s activities with the so-called Mitrokhin Commission in Italy, the attempt by Berlusconi to use the Mitrokhin information to fabricate a communist ‘trace’ on his political opponents in time for an Italian general election. (And it seemed to have paid off, too: a communist smear was generated against […]
[…] takes the reader on a tour of practically the entire spectrum of the American right, from the prosetylising end of the Born Agains to the World Anti- Communist League (as was). If the territory is familiar from other works, much of the detail and some of the perspectives are new. Doing this kind of […]
[…] remember where? And in the same part of the world in a piece in the Daily Telegraph (5 October 1984) there is reference to ‘Renamo’ an ‘anti- communist resistance force’ operating in Mozambique, ‘a movement organised by the old Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation in 1977… believed to have more than 10,000 men under arms […]
[…] is not helping Indonesia militarily. It is, however, permitting us to maintain some contact with key elements in Indonesia which are interested in and capable of resisting Communist takeover. We think this is of vital importance to the entire Free World.(2) A Defense Department official reiterated in 1998 that the training program was to […]
