[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the SAS who turned the tide. This is nonsense. Given that the majority Malay population was firmly enlisted on the British side in the conflict, a Communist victory was never likely in Malaya. The decisive part in the defeat of the insurgency was actually played by the Briggs Plan and the commitment of […]
[…] Left, the Temple went out of its way to forge alliances with leaders of those same organizations: e.g. with the Black Panthers’ Huey Newton and with the Communist Party’s Angela Davis. Yet, despite these associations, and its ultra-left orientation, we are told that the Temple was not a target of investigation by either intelligence […]
