[…] of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western countries. These files showed that the USAF had been hopelessly infiltrated by communists in the 1950s and 1960s. The […]
[…] 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham […]
[PDF file]: […] Council of Intellectual Workers, articles by him began appearing in newspapers and journals from 1919.4 Initially, in the continuing political turmoil (which included the possibility of a communist revolution and attempted Habsburg restorations) he advocated a limited form of democracy under the guardianship of aristocratic leaders. By 1920 he was suggesting the creation of […]
[…] centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we might call the British way of life. The survival of the CPGB […]
[PDF file]: […] the material was compiled by Victor Raikes and Anthony Courtney will raise eyebrows in some quarters. Both were prominent figures in the ‘40s and ‘50s, fiercely anti- communist and major figures in the Monday Club. Like many on the right they were 7 See Lobster 52. 8 See for Mosley and his recent connections […]
[…] centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we might call the British way of life. The survival of the CPGB […]
[…] centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we might call the British way of life. The survival of the CPGB […]
[PDF file]: […] media to create a popular image of most wanted criminals and the need for G-men to capture or kill them. The twin threats of spectacular criminals and communist subversives fed the FBI director’s greed for power over what became a kind of federal secret police. At almost the same time, Harry Anslinger, previously an […]
[…] long before his death. A scathing review of his 1956 book Pan-Africanism or Communism? described it as “infuriating”; it classified Padmore among those “who have revolted against Communist conduct and cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael […]
[PDF file]: […] later in the 1930s. He argues that Jenks’ own hatred of Jews was simply a radicalisation of common, mainstream prejudices against Jews as rapacious capitalists, criminals or Communist subversives. Jenks himself had little interest in the issue, and discussed the matter in depth on only one occasion, in his book Spring Comes Again of […]
