[PDF file]: […] when he writes: ‘It will show how, as successive American governments sink deeper and deeper into the vortex of covert operations — ostensibly to combat terrorism and Communist insurgencies — the American people gradually lose touch with the democratic ideals that once defined their national self-concept. This book asks what happens when Phoenix comes […]
[…] the Newham Labour Party. He was acting as a secret agent of the well-financed Freedom Association, which funded strike-breakers and clandestine operations against the Labour left and communist Party. Newham militants were getting rid of a rightwing Labour MP called Reg Prentice and the young Lewis, then a graduate student at St Antony’s Oxford, […]
[PDF file]: […] in the internal affairs of other countries, this was to contribute to the shift in information tactics towards the cloak of secrecy.’51 In contrast, however, any legitimate Communist hold on power in Western Europe was to be avoided at all costs because: ‘Powerful Communist parties in France and Italy were capable of sharing, and […]
[PDF file]: […] to them be applied to abolish Anglo-American despotism (which continues against its non-white population). A consistent exception to this rejection of any international ideology was the black communist in the US and to some extent the black nationalist (e.g. Marcus Garvey et al.) On the whole, however, the US regime holds ideological sway over […]
[…] 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham […]
[PDF file]: […] 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham […]
[PDF file]: […] a dupe, rather than simple Soviet mischief-making. This disinformation was surfaced in Italy, a country about which the Americans were still paranoid, believing that it might go communist at the drop of a hat and dominate the Mediterranean. So from a Soviet point of view, they got two “hits” for the price of one: […]
[PDF file]: […] activities to tie the need for a new centre party to allegations of Militant’s ‘infiltration’ of the Labour Party as well as Labour MPs’ links to the Communist Party of Great Britain. The concerted propaganda campaign against Militant was based around Reg Prentice MP. Taaffe stated that the same voices defending Prentice were increasingly […]
[PDF file]: […] revolution was apparently very much on the agenda, way back in the 1960s and 1970s. Then the country was in the grip of ‘industrial anarchy organised by communist conspirators’ (p. xvi). This might seem somewhat perverse as he also considers Britain at this time to have had a ‘socialist economy imposed by Labour governments […]
[PDF file]: […] and her great rival in the Labour Party, James Callaghan. In her view “that was the moment”.’ 10 In a review of Willie Thompson’s history of the Communist Party, John Torode11 also referred to the Barbara Castle proposals on industrial reform and attributed a significant role in their rejection to the Communist Party of […]
