[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] – 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 […]
[…] a hard nut to crack and the KGB was a ruthless opponent. There was little doubt as to the immediate post-war Soviet aim of bringing Austria under Communist control. After the 1947 crackdown in Romania and Hungary, the main KGB staff were transferred to the Russian HQ at Baden-bei-Wien, the scene of Prince Orlovsky’s […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Soviet regime. What had previously been a side-show of the IRD’s attempts to combat communism in the free world, was now the central tenet of British anti- communist propaganda policy.’ (p. 239) This books tells us the story we might have guessed in outline (had we given it some thought). There are no surprises. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 28 January 1973) At various times the UCA were said to have been in discussions with the Peoples’ Democracy group, the Official IRA, the British and Irish Communist Group and the Communist Party. The truth of these reports is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The […]
