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Well, how did we get here?
Still thinking about Dallas
[PDF file]: […] Oswald owned a Mannlicher-Carcano; and as recent analysis seems to have confirmed, the photographs of him posing with the rifle and American left newspapers, both Trotskyist and Communist, were authentic (despite his claim that they had been faked).13 In his memoir Chauncey Holt tells us that, in the months before the assassination, the weapons […]
A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars
[PDF file]: […] to Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), offered him a bribe. Sniffing the political wind in Scotland three years later, Sillars recalls how when he told ‘virulently anti- Communist’ Labour National agent Sara Barker that we could lose to the SNP ‘she was incredulous’. Even before he was elected MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 […]
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund
[PDF file]: […] another, had been schooled in the brutality of grassroots organising by John Spellar, the ageing warhorse of the old right who made a point of reading the Communist Morning Star to learn of his enemies’ activities, and to celebrate if a hard-left organiser of his acquaintance was on its obituaries page. Margaret McDonagh, Blair’s […]
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The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby
[PDF file]: […] account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department (IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti- communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were […]
Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath
[PDF file]: […] important for the United States to put a stop to drug trafficking by some Central American leaders than it was to support them because they were anti- communist.’ 7 violations and relished exposing the hypocrisy of the Reagan administration’s war on drugs. Senators Kerry and Helms were ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations […]