[PDF file]: […] and a number of his friends and colleagues were expelled from the ILP for opposing cooperation with the Labour Party. They remained together and joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a very small Trotskyist faction whose most prominent members were Ted Grant and Gerry Healy. Like them, Smith regarded the Labour Party 1945 election […]
[PDF file]: […] presented to their supervisors back home as intelligence-gathering and some of those with whom they were talking described as ‘agents’. Stonehouse was an interesting figure: an anti- communist, anti-imperialist member of the Labour and Co-operative Party. Julia Stonehouse refers, in passing, to an article her father wrote which was published in a 1959 collection, […]
[…] in America, especially the John Birch Society, which saw his book as proof that there really was a great conspiracy. It might not have been the great communist conspiracy the Birchers previously thought they could see but it was a conspiracy nonetheless.48 I was reminded of Quigley by a recently acquired copy of a […]
[PDF file]: […] Project Coast, its exploration and use of chemical and biological weapons; and an account of the Unification Church (the ‘Moonies’), the Korean CIA and the World Anti- Communist League – all fine pieces of detailed parapolitical work. And then 9/11 happens and Bale sets out to explain On-line at or . 3 For volume […]
[PDF file]: […] essay I glanced at, US Army officer Michael Ferguson’s short piece ‘The Evolution of Disinformation: How Public Opinion Became Proxy’.69 (Proxy?) Ferguson reminds his readers that the Communist International ran propaganda against the West and that the KGB created the Michael Lind, ‘The debunked “Russian influence” nonsense is infantilizing liberals’ at or . 67 […]
[PDF file]: […] been discovered some sixteen years before by Kevin Coogan in his study of Francis Parker Yockey, and it was in the pages of The Worker, the American Communist Party paper, where a front-page story was headlined, ‘American Nazis Establish Their National Headquarters in Queens’ (it got some facts wrong, like claiming it was Rockwell’s […]
[PDF file]: […] that allowed trusted interlocutors to side-step belligerent generals and committed political adversaries, without any of the complications of democracy. Monarchs also tended to share Hitler’s virulently anti- communist views.5 In the Hess case, we should note that after his second conversation with the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke came to London (15 May) and […]
[…] a superpower and a clear guarantor of peace. He does not see any threat to England from the Soviet Union, just as he does not see a communist threat in his country in general. In the meantime, good relations with such a country (i.e. if the Soviet Union views him, Hayward, as a major […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
