[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the time. Kennedy, it should not be entirely forgotten, followed Eisenhower/Dulles. Think of all those brave ventures designed to show the world the liberal-progressive (if anti- communist) face of American imperialism: the Alliance for Progress; treaties with the Soviets; and ‘opening to the left in Italy’; the Peace Corps. Interesting moves. Futile in […]
[…] green credentials impress you when he was Bill Clinton’s vice-president and you were an eager young Guardian newshound in DC? Freedland’s fellow Guardian columnist Martin Kettle, the Communist turned great friend of Tony Blair and New Labour, has just discovered the City of London is not all it’s cracked up to be. As the […]
[…] what the Service did. In part, this was to compensate for the image that had prevailed before. It was being portrayed as if it were run by fascist swine, which wasn’t the case.’ Much of this prevailing imagery, was, she believes, put about in the 1980s by ‘ communist sympathisers posing as conspiracy theorists’. Huh?
NB. Some of the statements about Colin Wallace in this article are false. Wallace did not set up the “school teacher named Horn”; nor was he having an affair with Horn’s wife. This article, remarkable at the time, was written before Dorril made contact with Colin Wallace. It is clear that there is a continuing … Read more
[…] Challinor wrote that he spent an evening with seamen’s leader Jim Salter just before his death. Slater told Challinor that he had not been part of a communist plot and had never even met the CPGB industrial organiser, Bert Ramelson; and that he had later discussed the seamen’s strike with Harold Wilson who had […]
[…] the Soviet/USSR apologisms, but at the cost of £1.00, this publication represents astonishing value for money. In case your ordinary bookshop can’t get it the publisher is: Harney and Jones, 119 Falcon Road, London SW11. The author, Denver Walker, is a member of the Communist Party and a journalist with “The New Worker”. John Clayton
[…] link post-war anti-communism with the current anti-Muslim strategies in what the Bush regime has now designated as ‘the long war’ between ‘freedom’ and ‘totalitarianism’. Once it was communist totalitarianism and now it is Muslim totalitarianism: same struggle, different enemies. This is clearly going to be the new line: the struggle against totalitarianism that has […]
[…] the historian James A. Nathan. This, says Kwitney, ‘contained sensational assertions’. Kwitney called Nathan to ‘seek documentation’ but ‘his only documentation ….was press clippings, including some from communist and other strongly partisan and unreliable publications, and from small-publication journalists I knew to be unreliable….. he had not tried to talk to the people involved […]
