[PDF file]: […] the 1930s, were extremely popular with audiences across the UK, much to the annoyance of the Churchill government.3 Plugge lost his seat in Parliament in the 1945 Labour landslide but retained his commercial interests. For some years in the 1940s the Attlee government and the Foreign Office made serious attempts, without success, to acquire […]
[PDF file]: […] more academic discussion of the CPGB-Moscow relationship, but which does not cover the ‘Moscow gold’, see ‘The Communist Party of Great Britain and Moscow’, Stephen Hopkins, in Labour History History Review, Vol 57, No. 3, Winter 1992. 1 For one response, see the letter from former full-time CP employee Bill Brooks in Guardian 21 […]
[PDF file]: […] fragments we could. Three things have changed. There are now mountains of information in the major media; there is no point in pushing this material at the Labour Party in the hope of getting political action because they 8 9 10 11 5 Brain waves Three significant pieces warning us about the dangers of […]
[PDF file]: […] discussing the CIA. There is still is no evidence of this operation to my knowledge. For non-UK readers: a group of MPs on the centre/right of the Labour Party quit and formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This took millions of votes from Labour in the 1983 general election, enabling the election of Margaret […]
[PDF file]: […] B Lomas Manchester University Press, 2017, h/b, £75.00 In December 1945, George Orwell wrote in Tribune wondering what happened to Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 when a Labour government was in office. This was when he still thought the Attlee government might attack the bastions of ruling class power in Britain by closing down […]
[PDF file]: […] the regulator was no match for such complexity, he told me. ‘Essentially, they were throwing dust in the regulator’s face.’ (p. 201) To its credit, the new Labour government of 1997 toughened up regulations affecting the water industry. By then the whole process of privatisation had become deeply unpopular with the public – higher […]
[PDF file]: […] the forefront of transforming an agency focused on espionage into a global organisation capable of tackling modern-day threats dies aged 63’. It included this line: ‘A lifelong Labour supporter and former Young Socialist, Ritchie saw no contradiction between his intelligence work and his egalitarian ideals.’2 A pinko spook? We have come a long way […]
[PDF file]: […] the Earth: A World Survey of Soil Erosion, published in 1939. Released from internment, in 1942 he joined the Rural Reconstruction Association, founded in 1925 by the Labour Party activist Montague Fordham, remaining a member until his death. From 1942 onwards he was also active in the agricultural section of the Economic Reform Club, […]
[…] discussing the CIA. There is still is no evidence of this operation to my knowledge. For non-UK readers: a group of MPs on the centre/right of the Labour Party quit and formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This took millions of votes from Labour in the 1983 general election, enabling the election of Margaret […]
[PDF file]: […] call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. This said that the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or […]
