[…] – 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the idea that the Vietnamese communists were working as the puppets of the Chinese and the Russians as part of an orchestrated plan of Asiatic conquest. The communist world constituted a vast, ruthlessly disciplined left-wing conspiracy and a victory for North Vietnam would inevitably lead to the domination of Indochina, and perhaps all of […]
[…] into children at summer camp, attempted behaviour modification on inmates at California’s Vacaville prison and collected powerful toxins from Amazon tribes. Terminal experiments were carried out on Communist defectors who were suspected of being double agents. Mind control proved a fantasy, but academic research on sensory deprivation opened the possibility of a revolution in […]
[…] the Labour Party of 1974 was under the influence of the Soviet Union: “It is estimated that between 20 and 30 Labour MPs are members of the Communist Party.” And there is a list of Labour politicians “who are belief to be communists and who hold positions of influence”; viz. Labour MPs Benn, Mikado, […]
[…] Phillips provides the first detailed examination of which I am aware of the various dock strikes during the period. Phillips concludes that the various charges of ‘ communist conspiracy’ made by members of the government and senior trade union officials were spurious, and probably known to be spurious at the time.(1) The one oddity […]
[…] note at the scene of the murder “arguing that the publisher had been helping the CIA to create a climate of uncertainty in Greece.” The World Anti- Communist League The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) has had a lot of attention recently. Less attention has been paid to the Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League (APACL), the […]
[…] Gordon and Morgan-Witts, Max Pontiff, Grenada, London 1983 Whale, John The Pope From Poland, Collins, London 1980 General Books on the Italian Political Scene Amyot G. Italian Communist Party, Croom Helm, London 1981 Davidson, A Theory and Practice of Italian Communism, Merlin, London 1982 Earle J. Italy in the 1970s, David and Charles, Newton […]
[…] approved by Searchlight, is allowed to talk to the nationalist /fascist fringe. You’d never guess that messers Gable and Atkinson of Searchlight were once employed by the Communist Party of Great Britain, would you? RR 2. Searchlight – an appreciation If Searchlight seriously wanted fascist activity to decline one might expect it to attempt […]
