[…] In 1934 I left school and joined the South Leeds Labour Party. The Labour League of Youth of the pre-war period had been heavily infiltrated by the Communist Party, a leading light being Ted Willis – later Lord Willis. I saw much of the CP in action in Leeds and met many of their […]
[…] 1943. These proved equally abortive. By then the Soviets were insisting on their 1914 borders: i.e. with the Catholic east Poland, Belarus, Ukraine etc. left securely under communist control. (2) With no progress at ending the war and further Axis reversals now common, a dismayed Vatican sought solace elsewhere. They approached Britain, via a […]
[…] Labour Party. The importance of Wallace, Holroyd, Peter Wright, Cathy Massiter et al in the 1980s was their falsification of this theory. MI5, the FBI and the Communist Parties of Britain and America In The Clandestine Caucus(3) I referred, in a footnote, to the extraordinary penetration of the Communist Party USA by the FBI. […]
[…] from separate perspectives, on issues of ‘humanitarian’ military intervention. The third comes in part from Catholic reform movements horrified by the criminal partnerships used to counter the communist threat. All three see the public as pawns suffering from false consciousness or the effects of manipulation or as simply ignorant victims. All three are sincere […]
[…] the late Lord Lionel Robbins (who called White ‘a sentimental and highly indiscreet fellow traveller’), is that White kept up his links not because he was a Communist but because he was a New Dealer who believed in (i) union of anti-fascist forces and (ii) US-USSR friendship as the key to postwar world peace […]
[…] as a mid-1950s off-shoot of Common Cause, an alliance of Tory right-wingers, military men concerned about the strength of the Soviet Union and union officials worried about communist influence on their members.(5) Office space was provided at the London headquarters of the National Union of Seamen, which in those days was practically a company […]
[…] by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who made his living as a travelling preacher. One night, while lying in bed fretting about socialists, Wobblies, and a Swedish Communist who, he was sure, planned to bring Seattle under the control of Moscow, Vereide received a visitation: a voice, and a light in the dark, bright […]
[…] – Hencke has been reporting on the British political scene from a centre-left perspective for over 25 years and Beckett has a written a history of the Communist Party of Great Britain (2) – I do not see how this can be anything but deliberately misleading. As the authors surely know, Mrs Thatcher used […]
[…] United States Government which stated its opposition to the overthrow of a democratically elected government and, under the requirement of U.S. law, suspended aid to Fiji. Background Communist media were quick to imply some U.S. involvement in the coup. Many of these implications were repeated by non-communist media world-wide, and in some cases repeated […]
[…] clearly his own man but there is now good reason to take a much greater interest in the close liaison between the Vatican and the various anti- communist intelligence operations which developed in Europe under the wing of the United States and that are now coalescing into the pan-European security agency of a new […]
