[…] 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 […]
[…] input into the Social Democratic Alliance in the mid 1970s, the forerunner of the SDP, briefed Mrs Thatcher, while she was leader of the opposition on the ‘communist menace’, and began producing IRDtype briefings on the British left British Briefing. British Briefing was published by…… IRIS. On top of or below all this, in […]
[…] It is worth noting that: The failure of the Groundnut Scheme was used as the basis of a smear campaign in 1951. Those tarnished included the former Communist John Strachey and his close friend Leslie Plummer, an East-West Trader. The scientific adviser to the scheme, and at the time a financial supporter of the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time-Life, Newsweek, Readers Digest and the three major television networks). Since Watergate, and the dramatic collapse of the press-government anti- Communist consensus, it in possible that this relative immunity is no longer unassailable. First in conjunction with Vietnam, then in conjunction with Watergate and since around 1974 […]
[…] – 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 […]
