[…] of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western countries. These files showed that the USAF had been hopelessly infiltrated by communists in the 1950s and 1960s. The […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] See or . 51 Artem Iovenko, ‘The ideology and development of the Social-National Party of Ukraine, and its transformation into the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”, in 1990–2004’, in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 48, no. 2/3, 2015, p. 230. (not archived). 52 19 Parubiy resigned as NSDC secretary in August 2014, for reasons that have […]
[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 […]
[…] See or . 51 Artem Iovenko, ‘The ideology and development of the Social-National Party of Ukraine, and its transformation into the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”, in 1990–2004’, in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 48, no. 2/3, 2015, p. 230. (not archived). 52 19 Parubiy resigned as NSDC secretary in August 2014, for reasons that have […]
[PDF file]: […] Soviet Union. Disliked by Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, Cripps had actually been expelled from the Labour Party in January 1939 for advocating a Popular Front with the Communist Party. Like Hoare he kept his seat in Parliament as MP for Bristol South East. All these measures were taken in the knowledge that there wasn’t […]
