[…] and British trade unions An important piece appeared in issue 9 of Perspectives. Peter E. Newell writes (albeit briefly) of his experience in the 1960s producing anti- communist prop-agenda for the journal of the Union of Post Office Workers, and his concomitant contact with personnel from IRIS, the CIA and the ICFTU. Perspectives is […]
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
[…] of the “Partnership for Peace Program”, which was established by NATO to strengthen ties with former Eastern Bloc and former Soviet states.‘ The courtship between the ‘ communist’ Shevardnadse and the capitalist James Baker from the days when the former was Foreign Minister and the latter Secretary of State would now end in wedlock. […]
[…] attributes to it is true — but not always. Therein lies the problem — and the intellectual interest. Brian Crozier’s views on the role of the Soviet Communist Party and KGB would certainly score on the first four of Pipes’ list, but not the fifth. I score about 50% on Mr Pipes list. Appearances […]
Part 1 The world of ultra-right conspiracy theory is of interest to researchers into clandestinism for 3 reasons. First, because critics of research into clandestinism frequently attempt to bracket it together with ultra-right believers in The Protocols of Zion and similar fantasies.(1); secondly because the ultra-rightists, in the last decade, have been showing an interest … Read more
[…] the various forgeries which were going around: Ted Short’s phoney bank account and all the forged leaflets and letters trying to link Wilson and others to the Communist Party and the IRA. And here is the core of my complaint: it wasn’t just a plot against Wilson; it was a plot against the Labour […]
[…] with the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department, MI5’s agents were encouraged to disrupt subversive organisations, even impregnating lavatory paper with an itching substance at halls hired by communist organisations.’ This is the first time such operations have been acknowledged. Presumably they were not all so childish. This is a very good, important book, certain […]
Introduction The ‘Gable memo’ reproduced below originally appeared as the subject matter of a long and extremely interesting article, ‘Destabilising the “decent people”‘ by Nick Anning, Duncan Campbell and Bruce Page in the New Statesman on February 15, 1980. This is still worth digging out, particularly for its detailed account of the context in which … Read more
[…] full access to its material, little of this was broadcast. Instead we get a lot of huffing and puffing about ‘Trotskyists’. This came, though, from an elderly Communist Party member, rather than anyone in mainstream politics. Ware says, ‘…. ten years ago, black parents warned that schools were failing their children….’ (i.e. in 1977 […]
