[…] they began launching raids on Yugoslavia. ASIO was almost a parody of the right-wing security/intelligence outfit in bed with the right. The author’s account also shows a Labour Party dimly aware of all this, making the occasional half-hearted stab at reining in ASIO, which the agency and its conservative allies easily outflanked or overturned. […]
[…] class and to eradicate the reforms won by decades of peaceful struggle’. (p.101) This, I would remind him, could equally well characterise both Thatcherism and the New Labour project. ‘Reaction’ in Renton’s shaky hands is merely shorthand for people whose views he and the SWP leadership (before whom he genuflects) don’t like. In case […]
[…] 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 […]
Shorts Yorkshire Post (14 March ’92) reported the admission by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in their opening sentence, “It is surprising that relatively little work has been done on the role of capital in British politics”. ‘Pressure Groups: Right Thinking People’ Labour Research Feb. 1984 Profiles of, personnel involved in, financial contributions to: Adam Smith Institute, Aims of Industry, Centre for Policy Studies, Coalition for Peace Through Security, […]
[…] blowing up a draft office or a bank seemed sexy and exciting at the time – the group did not connect with the working class or organised labour, let alone with straight America, grazing in the malls. The author tries at the end to show that, despite their complete failure, the WU were important […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Huey Long. Huey Long? The quasi-socialist Huey Long, not the friend-of-organised-crime Huey Long. The current Democratic Party’s timidity drives Palast nuts in the same way that the Labour Party used to drive people like me nuts, watching them afraid to make obvious points for fear of………who knows what. But the Democrats are all he’s […]
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
