[PDF file]: […] attempt to assassinate Patrice Lumumba in the Congo by poisoning his toothpaste, many attempts on Castro, kidnapping (and more recently ‘extraordinary rendition’), the illegal financing of anti- Communist journals abroad, including Britain’s moderate-left Encounter – the list goes on. The CIA has been widely suspected of further plots, against Australia’s Gough Whitlam and Britain’s […]
[PDF file]: […] murders. Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti- communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS […]
[PDF file]: […] Talbott, The Russia Hand (New York: Random House, 2002) 31 Y. Brudny, ‘In Pursuit of the Russian Presidency: Why and How Yeltsin Won the 1996 Presidential Election’, Communist and PostCommunist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 255-275, 1997. 32 Aleksei Sanaev, ‘Vybory V Rossii: Kak eto Delaetsia’, Os’-89, 2005, p. 8, quoted in ‘Russia: […]
[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only a […]
[PDF file]: […] 75 (GB75), an organisation intended to fight the threat from the Left and ready to organise strike-breaking if and when there was a General Strike and attempted Communist takeover. The intention was to have a volunteer force ready in place throughout the country that would be able to keep ‘essential services’ running and help […]
Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only a […]
[…] who, as vice president had been excluded from the major war decisionmaking, and was a believer in the threat posed by international communism. The crusade against the communist threat was irresistible and those who opposed it were ignored or crushed as com-symps, fellow-travellers, naifs. George Kennan, deputy head of the U.S. mission in Moscow […]
[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; […]
[PDF file]: […] equivalents are working for their country. The murder of a British businessman who worked in China and was associated with the now disgraced Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief of Chongqing who was once tipped for high office, was characterised by systematic British media undermining of the dead man’s character (presumably because it […]
