[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.6 Significant if not decisive By asking for a ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence, Knightley is asking for too much. Even […]
[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 […]
[…] fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.6 Significant if not decisive By asking for a ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence, Knightley is asking for too much. Even […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.6 Significant if not decisive By asking for a ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence, Knightley is asking for too much. Even […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist (the fascist menace). In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left (the communist menace).3 As well as being a reflexive response, ‘contamination’ or anathematization is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and, within their […]
[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.18 […]
