[…] damning intelligence against Iraq being selectively chosen, while intelligence assessments, which might have worked against the build-up to war, were sidelined. Intelligence work had become politicised under Labour, and spies were taking orders from politicians. They provided worst-case scenarios which were use by politicians to make factual claims.'(3) There were no names and no […]
[…] remake close relations with some of the leading trade unionists who left in ’57). If that had happened the New Left would have emerged as the non- Labour Party power base for left socialism. It would been not only less open to rightest propaganda but the fact that its organization was amorphous would have […]
[…] conviction, guilty or otherwise; net snooping at work; Echelon and its cousins; the origins of the surveillance society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; the growth of federal law enforcement agencies and their intelligence gathering; the growth of private, political intelligence gathering from […]
[…] Leveller (Monochrome) April 1985 Political break-ins Friends of the Earth (Bristol) (Guardian 17 May 1985) Member of Clive Ponting law team (Times 14 March 1985) Leader of Labour group on Brent council (Guardian 19 January 1985) Cecil Woolf, publisher of books by Tam Dalyell among others (Guardian 21 February 1985) Member of Christian CND […]
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more
[…] take on the Judy Bari/Earth First/FBI bombing story. Her ex-husband did it, says Martin, not the FBI. Red Star Research By far the best source on New Labour, personnel, sources of funding etc. – and getting millions of hits. http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/ AK Press The splendid AK Press have a new catalogue: requests for a copy […]
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
[…] developed in the fifties and sixties, how IRD came to circulate (and the rest of Whitehall let it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what […]
[…] usual the UK was just part of the US PR operation, the ‘we are not alone’ factor. As has been frequently pointed out in these pages, New Labour was coopted by the US long before it took office. As for the events leading up to war, there isn’t much left to say. In the […]
[…] British Fascisti et al, will want to get a copy of its companion piece, ‘British Fascism and the State 1917–27: a re-examination of the documentary evidence’, in Labour History Review, Vol 57 no. 3, Winter 1992. This is a look at the evidence on the links between the ‘radical right’ groups like British Empire […]
