[…] nothing less than a counter-revolutionary cell, either to overthrow the democratic state (as several P2 members tried to do in the early 1970s), or to prevent a Communist take-over. The members included three cabinet ministers from the Arnaldo Forlani government; the heads of Italy’s three main intelligence services; the chiefs of staff of the […]
[…] there were some comments of the former British Leyland boss Michael Edwardes who described going to the Cabinet Office to read the minutes of meetings between ‘the Communist Party and our shop stewards……..It was absolutely clear – the intention was to break the company…….bring the company down, bring the country down.’ This didn’t sound […]
[…] all critics of their defence policies as puppets of the Kremlin.’ (p. 3) Wilford shows that the relationships between the state and non-state forces in the anti- communist world of the early post-war years were more complex than simply the CIA running things, calling the tune. Had his text not been framed as a […]
[…] Generation membership in its early days a decade ago. SDP activists Other SDP activists receiving early invitations to join the Successor Project were Sue Slipman, the former Communist president of the National Union of Students; Penny Cooper, an old Communist party and NUS colleague of Slipman’s who, like her, was a founder member of […]
[…] than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist. (The fascist menace.) In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left. (The communist menace.)(3) As well as being a reflexive response, ‘contamination’ or anathematization is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and, within their […]
Inside the League Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson (Dodd, Mead and Co., New York 1986) This is the only book I know on the World Anti- Communist League. Most of it is new to me but the few bits I am familiar with look accurate, and it is reasonably well documented. It is […]
[…] extremely interesting and massively detailed account of the politics of the student movement before and during the early years of the Cold War. Centrally it shows how Communist Party members from various countries, under presumed if not illustrated Soviet control, created the World Federation of Democratic Youth and the International Union of Students; with […]
[…] their own side for the ‘crime’ of battle fatigue. Without this Liberal-Democratic Holocaust’ (which altogether cost 17 million lives) there would have been no Russian Revolution, no Communist International and no Stalinism. Nor would there have been the fascist regimes in Western Europe, which took power with the connivance of big business, and a […]
[…] are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures’. The speech was used to draw financial backing from Congress to Truman’s determination to support anti- Communist regimes in Greece and Turkey. These governments had been propped up by the British but the expense of the operation was by late 1946 too much […]
[…] almost anyone else..’ (p. 112) ‘He would have been the obvious choice removing communists from MI5 (p. 124) ‘There is another pointer to Hollis’s collusion with the Communist Party’ (p. 124) ‘Hollis also took the view, it seems‘ (p. 125) ‘Hollis would have known that there was already a file on Burgess…’ (p. 129) […]
