[…] letter of invitation, ‘hold meetings all over the country, at which the municipal authority usually presides, and socialists, Liberals and Tories advocate organised resistance to Nazi and communist propaganda. The League of Nations Union and the New Commonwealth, of which I am President, are both closely associated and many of our meetings are held […]
[…] denouement of the populist politics that we can now call Blairusconism. Parallels The parallels between the two leaders are striking. Berlusconi emerged after the death of the Communist Berlinger in 1984, while Blair moved (famously quickly) after the death of John Smith in 1994. Both rode high on the promises of constitutional reform; Berlusconi […]
[…] policy there: “Heath’s men set about dealing with the unrest among the natives by the classic Imperial methods which had worked so well in Malaya against the Communist guerillas – a co-ordinated intelligence drive, a big propaganda campaign, mass round-ups of suspects, attacks on guerillas’ arms-supplies and cross-border sanctuaries – and then, if all […]
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When […]
[…] initial aim was to provide strong arm defensive and then offensive protection for the far right, the first publicly admitted ‘action’ being an incendiary attack on a Communist Party premises in March 1992.(2) The gap between the events that were the catalyst (including a failed November 1991 Fred Leuchter meeting in London), and the […]
[…] — Frank Doherty, Sunday News, 22 April 1984, p. 9. Paisley’s papist smoke screens — John Carey, Sunday World, 2 December 1984, pp. 6-7. Kincora — Irish Communist, (a) November 1984, pp. 1- 18; (b) December 1984, pp.7-16. Kincora ‘leak’ man to miss inquiry — Sunday World, 16 December 1984, p. 8. Document claims […]
[…] the cultivation of home industries, urban renewal and agricultural protection.(7) ‘National Self-Sufficiency’ has itself been the victim of misunderstanding. It was not a flirtation with ‘fascist or communist economics’.(8) It was not an aberration provoked by despair at the failure of the 1933 World Economic Conference to produce a co-ordinated global response to the […]
[…] Ibid. Ibid pp. 72 and 3. Ibid. p. 12. Ibid. p. 13. The American Security Council (ASC) Box 8, Boston, Virginia 22713, USA. ASC is militarist, anti- communist and right-wing. Formed in the mid-1950s, the Council acts as a right-wing think tank on foreign policy and lobbies for the expansion and strengthening of U.S. […]
[…] it was far better to tell what he knew than to keep quiet and allow even a small Soviet victory. A (agonised) patriot and a fervent anti- communist: how does this contradict what we know about Orwell, or lead us in any way to reappraise him? It’s certainly not as though he could have […]
[…] to play a significant part in colonial life. Smith portrays MI5 working with the Colonial Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail — as well as producing inept anti- communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were replaced by the Foreign Office/MI6 people. Smith’s encounter with colonial corruption climaxes with his discovery that […]
