A Work of Camouflage Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2024, £25 h/b John Newsinger What is most interesting about this posthumous memoir by General Frank Kitson is what it does not say, exactly how little it contributes to our knowledge and […]
[PDF file]: […] for the last 25 years. We plumped for the City and ignored the manufacturing base.’ Politicians don’t do this. Political parties not seeking election – e.g. the Communist Party of Great Britain – can say such things (and the CPGB did circa 1990). But for parties engaged in electoral politics this is impossible. Or […]
[…] over the requirements of material sustenance and the drudgery of mindless wage work’.10 It was a vision which bore some striking similarities to Marx’s vision of a Communist society, where ‘society regulates the general production’ and scarcity would cease to exist, ending all need for the division of labour: ‘nobody has one exclusive sphere […]
[PDF file]: […] the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were eventually recruited into the Auxiliary Units. Initially these volunteers were already serving in the Home Guard […]
[PDF file]: […] this is undoubtedly true. Orwell, however, was not ‘appropriated’ by British intelligence services. He willingly cooperated with them, particularly in passing on the names of suspected 1 Communist fellow-travellers. Referring to the abolition of the Central Office of Information in 2011, Anthony also states (p. 20), ‘The constraints on centralised state power that existed […]
[PDF file]: […] Trump team, many Conservative MP’s and UKIP have at least one thing in common: all have a visceral dislike of the EU, regarding it as a quasi- communist entity with which they will have no truck. In corporate management speak, we are going on a journey, caused by two countries with defective electoral systems; […]
[…] remains unclear to me but my guess would be that they were what they seemed: Permindex was a CIA front and il Paese Sera was not a Communist front. what we might call friends of Lyndon were murdering people in Texas was hinted at in 1964 by Texan politician J. Evetts Haley. He had […]
[PDF file]: […] which, for much of the 1930s, had experienced a severe economic slump and large-scale joblessness, followed by sluggish growth. Organised labour, represented politically by socialist, socialdemocratic and communist organizations, became as critical to the war effort as the armed forces. This process was visible in states such as the UK which remained free throughout […]
[PDF file]: […] 16. (The first five pages of chapter one describe Wynne’s arrest and transportation to the Lubyanka prison.) 22 loony faction of MI5 that were convinced there were communist sympathisers in the Harold Wilson’s Cabinet.23 Protecting the Trumps Donald Trump has many enemies and, in most cases, he would seem to be the one responsible […]
