[…] noise ratio is pretty low at the moment. Peter E. Newell (p. 12) has contributed an important essay on the hitherto almost entirely unknown Cold War CIA labour front, the Confederation of Free Trade Unionists in Exile. Tom Easton’s review essay (p. 17) on the history of the SDP which follows, is another important […]
[…] increase their monitoring capability to eavesdrop on an unprecedented spectrum of personal and business communications. This activity has been all but ignored by the UK Parliament. When Labour MPs raised questions about the activities of the NSA, the Government invoked secrecy rules. It has been the same for 40 years. Notes This is an […]
[…] already taken all this on board. The people who ought to read this – in this country the naive enthusiasts for the ‘American way’ in the Parliamentary Labour Party, in the media (for example the idiotic Jonathan Freedland) and among the junior policy wonks feeding Tony Blair’s illusions – will not do so. There […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] States and Canada. Within this framework, on average about one-third are from the government sector and the remaining two-thirds from a variety of fields including finance, industry, labour, education and the media. Participants are solely invited for their knowledge, experience and standing and with reference to the topics on the agenda. All participants attend […]
[…] delivery is spook-proof. Does disinformation work? It does with some journalists. Take Andrew Rawnsley and his lavishly praised Servants of the People: the Inside Story of New Labour (London: Penguin, 2001). On pp. 256 and 7 he gives us a thumbnail sketch of the events leading to the NATO attack on Serbia over Kosovo. […]
[…] range as a reference group, thought the KGB story was a smear. Agee told us the lie we wanted to hear. (And one or two of the Labour MPs involved may have been within the Soviet orbit at the time.) Further, in the Soviet-American competition of the Cold War, to say something bad about […]
On Friday 7 August I was told by a journalist at another paper that the Mail on Sunday had a story that Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson had worked for the spooks – though which branch was not clear. ‘That doesn’t surprise me,’ I said, and described Mandelson’s 1978 Foreign Office (or SIS?)-funded trip to Cuba. […]
[…] system. The rights groups say that the RIP act fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a right established by the HRA and ECHR. The Labour peer, Lord Ahmed, also complained that transcripts of his phone conversations were given to ministers. Unusually, in this case the government said that Lord Ahmed was […]
