[PDF file]: […] activities to tie the need for a new centre party to allegations of Militant’s ‘infiltration’ of the Labour Party as well as Labour MPs’ links to the Communist Party of Great Britain. The concerted propaganda campaign against Militant was based around Reg Prentice MP. Taaffe stated that the same voices defending Prentice were increasingly […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]
[PDF file]: […] said) to escape from the secretive and authoritarian mindset typical of that organisation, has embarked on an attempt to recreate something of the old Soviet bloc, replacing Communist ideology with Greater Russian chauvinism. This campaign has been characterised by determination to reverse what are seen as the humiliations of the Yeltsin era and to […]
[PDF file]: […] the USSR launch its own initiatives for a new international order, designed to bring lasting world peace and prosperity. In 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, proposed a ‘common European home’. This replaced the ‘Two Camps’ doctrine, 2 which held that the world was divided into socialist […]
[PDF file]: […] than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the protofascist. (The fascist menace.) In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left. (The communist menace.)36 As well as being a reflexive response, ‘contamination’ or anathematisation is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and, within their […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
