[…] ‘…the Civil Service was intensely disloyal. Peter Shore was my minister. Most of my colleagues thought he was a “fellow traveller”; and Benn was regarded as a Communist…. In the whole of Whitehall, at the middle level, there was fear all over the place, and the “antis” were being labelled as Communists and “fellow […]
[…] by President Carter because he publicly opposed the withdrawal of some ground forces from South Korea. This may be explained by his membership of the World Anti- Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former […]
[…] the media treat, for example, the crushing of the Turkish trade union movement under the military regime in 1981 versus their treatment of Solidarity’s repression by the Communist regime in Poland in the same year. Or how they treat the Polish Communist government’s killing of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984 versus the […]
[…] and race issues into the CPGB and wider Labour Movement. ‘There was nothing Marxist about any of this. These issues were used quite deliberately to undermine the Communist Party and the Labour Movement in general.’ (emphasis added) This is an interesting claim which I have heard before; but, like the rest of the book, […]
[…] network reviewed below, trace intelligence gun-for-hire Litvinenko’s activities with the so-called Mitrokhin Commission in Italy, the attempt by Berlusconi to use the Mitrokhin information to fabricate a communist ‘trace’ on his political opponents in time for an Italian general election. (And it seemed to have paid off, too: a communist smear was generated against […]
[…] well known. Ron Gostick is the head of Butler’s League of Rights’ Canadian branch and is currently a member of the Canadian affiliate to the World Anti- Communist League.(3) As far back as 1967 Gostick and Butler were referred to as “associates” of the Candour League of Rhodesia.(4) Two of the other ‘associates’ mentioned […]
[…] and the last thing he would have wished on himself was another Cuban crisis in his first days in office. The FBI, the great seekers of ‘ Communist conspiracies’ may be presumed to be eager not to be revealed as having missed the big one, the only such ‘communist conspiracy’ worth a damn since […]
[…] book Stalin and German Communism appeared some years ago, a number of reviewers made the point that she still saw herself as a socialist or even a communist, even after her high-profile ‘anti-communist’ ventures. Regarding Ignazio Silone, the Suddeutsche Zeitung (15 October 1998), citing an Italian periodical, reported that Silone was ‘between 1928 and […]
[…] contribution to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like […]
[…] (Schlesinger and Kinzer, London 1982) makes it very clear that U.F.Co. launched a massive PR campaign in the US to persuade so-called “policy makers” of the “ communist threat” to Guatemala. Without that campaign those “geopolitical considerations” would never have been perceived. And then as now, “geopolitical considerations” is merely a euphemism for “communist […]
