[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 review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] Larkin. HE Lobster story begins in Edinburgh in 1948 when Ramsay was born, the eldest child of a food chemist father and housewife mother. Both parents were Communist Party members until the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, so Ramsay grew up in a bookish, lefty atmosphere which encouraged a sort of instinctive hostility […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the left of the Labour Party in Parliament and the constituencies, the large trade unions (notably the Transport and General Workers and the Engineering Workers) and the Communist Party. Their most articulate spokesperson was Tony Benn, Industry Secretary in Harold Wilson’s Labour government at the time. The case made by Benn and his supporters […]
[PDF file]: […] to those in the UK who wished to end the war. One of these was Anna Wolkoff, a member of The Right Club, a virulently antisemitic, anti- communist, group led by Archibald Maule Ramsay MP.8 She Right Club members and supporters included 12 MPs and 5 Lords. See Richard Griffiths, Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, […]
[PDF file]: […] body Le Cercle’. Van Vuuren mentioned a Le Cercle meeting in 1984 which addressed the serious threat of infiltration of socialist parties of Europe and elsewhere by communist agents. There was talk of left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. A year and half later Palme was assassinated. But so what? Does Nicholson want us […]
