[…] with links to 2,500 political sites. Includes MP biographies; Parties; pressure groups; campaigns; agencies; Councils page; local election results; archive; UK politics newsgroups; links. LabourNet http://www.labournet.org/ International Labour Solidarity Website ‘promotes computer communications as a medium for building international labour solidarity’. Started Nov 1995 to support the sacked Liverpool dockers fight for reinstatement. International […]
[…] Lipsey helped found the British American Project for the Successor Generation, a US-funded network to revive Atlanticism. He is now Lord Lipsey, a key figure in New Labour with its end of ideology, Third Way ‘pragmatism’. His network of influence is just one of many of continuing significance in the political and intellectual world […]
[…] mining conglomerate, involved in the extraction and refining of molybdenum, coal (3rd largest producer in the US with a bad reputation for its open-cast mining operations and labour relations), tungsten (2nd largest producer in the US), and copper. It is a major nickel producer in the US and mines/refines lead, silver, cadmium and zinc […]
[…] something else I came across The CIA in Australia, a five-part transcript of 1986 Australian radio programmes on the CIA’s operation to get rid of the Whitlam Labour government in Australia in the 1970s. (Originally, Watching Brief, Public Radio News Services, Melbourne, Australia, October-November 1986.) This is interesting stuff: the best account I have […]
[…] Cruise convoy. Tribune 30th March (letter) Long account of phone-tapping in UK, running through the legal situation re the Malone case and giving examples of unauthorised tapping. Labour Research April 1984 Bristol Labour Party Agent phonetapped by Special Branch. Tribune 27th April Post Office Engineers Union (POEU) stirrings on phone-tapping snuffed out when British […]
[…] other staples to every Iraqi’.(22) What’s more, until sanctions and all the attendant misery and corruption, it was so prosperous that it was a net importer of labour, had a highly developed infrastructure, fabulous healthcare and superb universities. Which is to say, Iraq was never, ever, anything like Stalin’s Soviet Union. War intelligence, March […]
[…] Freeman in Fiji. WPR adds information on Freeman, mostly from the Fiji Sun 9th July 1987. “Paul Freeman was involved in a destabilisation action against a NZ labour government in 1975. He received a Security Intelligence Service (SIS) file from an SIS employee, Rohan Jays, with embarrassing information about a Labour MP. Freeman publicly […]
[…] did a little checking. The earliest version of this theme I have found appeared in the 1963 Jack and Bessie Braddock book The Braddocks. (The Braddocks were Labour MPs who began on the left and ended on the Catholic right.) There, between pages 223-5, Bessie quotes at some length from a document headed ‘Cominform […]
[…] friendship over 30 years with his protégé Alton – or the way that this Observer editor used his position and his closeness to key people in New Labour to keep his readers in the dark over matters of peace and war and much else under the Blair premiership. Preston practises deception by omission as […]
[…] to assault us. And when they looked for published information on the antecedents of this group of people and organisations, they found almost nothing there – just Labour Research (God bless ’em) and a few books and pamphlets in libraries What has happened is clearly enough. Hughes began researching the Economic League and, en […]
