[…] I began reading about the relationship between the intelligence and security services and the British political system in the early 1980s, it was widely believed on the Labour left that the intelligence and security services were all-powerful and unaccountable. They are still unaccountable in any real sense: their accountability to Parliament is notional. But […]
[…] to the gigantic, going on in every industrialised society. Political parties always contain conspiracies at every level. As I was writing this it was announced that the Labour Party is going to examine the influence of an entryist Trotskyist group called Socialist Action, previously Socialist Organiser (known to some Trot watchers as the ‘Soggy […]
[…] 1 Issue 24 of the Covert Action Information Bulletin (Summer 1985) is chiefly devoted to recent activities of U.S. government agents and agents provocateurs inside radical and labour organisations: the ‘sanctuary movement’, the Native American movement and one industrial dispute, are analysed as case studies. They are preceded by a long essay, “The New […]
Down Under David Lange may have come and gone and the New Zealand Labour Party may have blazed a rightwards trail for Tony Blair et al to follow, but the New Zealand anti-military, anti-spook campaigns continue. The latest journal to document the activities of the spooks and military in that part of the Pacific […]
[…] a ‘shorthand’ instrument of political PR, speeches are its ‘longhand’ equivalent. The Prime Minister has given three ‘world vision statements’ since 11 September 2001. These were at Labour Party Conference that year and this, as well as at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in September 2002. At the last of these, he announced a […]
[…] of the founders of that consortium had in 1994 been appointed director of the Dounreay Nuclear Establishment.(30) The AWE decision was roundly attacked in the Commons by Labour MP Frank Cook, who claimed that Brown and Root’s record in the U.S. running nuclear contracts was abysmal. He pointed to the South Texas Nuclear Project, […]
[…] far as 1967 before I realized that there was no mention of Lord Cromer, the Governor of the Bank of England between 1964 and 66, and the Labour government’s number one enemy in that period. Hang on a minute, I thought, and consulted the index. No entry for Cromer. Back to the text I […]
[…] WTO-driven free trade regime in a world without enforceable international law and with large accumulations of capital emerging from the supply of consumer wants (including guns, sex, labour, drugs, untaxed goods and unregulated financial services), the lifting of capital controls by the Reagan-Thatcher generation also meant the globalisation of criminality in all its forms. […]
[…] nominees to the upper house and to the Honours List. While sitting in the Lords as a crossbencher, Stevenson has been a key figure in the New Labour network, as friend and supporter of Blair and Peter Mandelson, and with deep involvement in Demos and the British American Project among other groupings. The North-East […]
[…] Essentials, 2002; £3.99 Pocket Essentials are the publishers who have had the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However Nixon’s book is really […]
