[…] economic advisor to the National Coal Board. Not normally mentioned in accounts of Schumacher’s life is that he was the brother-in-law of Werner Heisenberg, head of the Nazi atom bomb team. 20 The seats where People made their greatest impact were Birmingham Northfield, Coventry North East and Coventry North West, all with Labour MPs […]
[…] and researched. It contains a good deal of useful information about the ‘peace plots’. The Hess mission is analysed against a background of covert links between the Nazi leadership and reactionary elements in the British state, located mainly in the City, the landowning aristocracy and the imperialist wing of the Conservative Party. (The activities […]
On 8 March 1985 an attempt was made to assassinate one of the founders of Hizbullah, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, by car bomb in Beirut. The attack failed in its objective, but there was some ‘collateral damage’. While Fadlallah was untouched, some eighty bystanders, men, women and children, were killed and over two hundred injured. … Read more
[…] But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured by O’Hara’s speculation and his writing […]
[…] March 1987. The paper also reported that black leaders in Wolverhampton, where these events are said to have taken place, believed the ‘BLF’ to be a neo- Nazi provocation. Meanwhile, another ‘Black Liberation Front’, apparently based in London, and apparently an off-shoot of the Black Panthers (sic), disowned the Wolverhampton version. (Sunday Times 31 […]
From: M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton’s footnote at the end of his piece on Hess, in your number tries to keep alive Dr Hugh Thomas’s tale that the pilot who reached Scotland could not have been Hess, because he bore no trace of the gunshot wound the real Hess had received in Roumania in … Read more
Tony Blair might be considered guilty on two of the counts for which Hitler’s Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop was executed at Nuremberg, ‘namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the … Read more
[…] the birth of a particularly nasty group called “Combat 18” set up by a group of football hooligans and organised with the help of an notorious American nazi called Harold Covington.’ As students of Larry O’Hara will know, this is not quite the whole story. Later in the piece Mr Matthews wrote this: ‘Lobster […]
The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see … Read more
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Cambridge (UK) 1991, £8.95. The basic rule of politics, domestic and international is that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. That rule ensured that the CIA adopted as allies the opium growers of the Golden Triangle in the 1960s and 70s, and the heroin producing … Read more
