[…] et al never produced any evidence – hence the necessity of the novel, perhaps. At the Progreso site the page ‘About us’ includes an interview with Ricardo Alarcon de Quesda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the National Assembly of the People’s Power.
[…] 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 […]
[…] Gangs and Counter-Gangs in 1960. (4) After Kenya, Kitson next saw active service in Malaya. He arrived in the country in January 1957, by which time the Communist insurgency had already been effectively defeated. Only a small number of isolated guerrilla bands were still at large. He regarded the army’s methods as ‘thorough rather […]
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 […]
[…] many with horrific cruelty, even by the standards of the time. He successfully avoided any post-war difficulties, eventually arriving in New York as a bona fide anti- Communist in July 1951. Here, in less than a year, he achieved the remarkable feat of becoming not only a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church, but […]
[…] 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
[…] Serb nationalist thugs were to blame for massacring civilians in Bosnia? Indeed the same. But wasn’t that lady a member of the central committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and specifically, secretary of its front Campaign Against Militarism? So we understand. I have been told that the status of ‘research associate’ is only honorary, […]
[…] 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?
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
