[…] 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 […]
[…] the ‘Reagan Doctrine’ of aggressively attacking the Soviet Union’s third world allies and grew into the CIA’s biggest operation. But in parallel with guerrilla assaults on pro- communist regimes, the doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear war was also a gathering force. Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ announcement of 1983, although presented as a defensive measure, was clearly […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] establishment (including Roger Hollis) and that the chief recruiter for them had been Victor Rothschild. Where did he get this idea? Was it a result of anti- Communist paranoia, as most thought at the time, or did the Swedes have something? A Good Companion? The recently published Oxford Companion to World War Two (Oxford, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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
[…] ‘…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 […]
