[…] protest outside Westminster, even as he was charming the Chinese Defence chief inside. (19) Then there is ‘ex-foreign office mandarin Ben Chapman MP, ‘torpedoed into a safe Labour seat at the ’97 election’, (20) who is now parliamentary private secretary to Export Credit Guarantee Department Minister Richard Caborn whose department considers funding for construction […]
[…] Mosley’s biographer, he claimed there was no truth in them. As an MP, 1929-31, Lady Cynthia’s political position appears to have approximated to those of the present Labour left, say Wedgie Benn. Besides have a good line on environmental matters that would endear her to our contemporary Greens, she took an interest in welfare […]
[PDF file]: Reformatted and slightly updated late 2023. The Clandestine Caucus Anti-socialist campaigns and operations in the British Labour movement since 1945 Robin Ramsay Introduction Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and IRIS appeared in Lobster 19; much of the discussion of the ‘communist threat’ in Lobster 24; […]
[…] seriously.Incidentally, Count Otto von Hapsburg, the diplomat who the authors claim to be a member of the Priory, also features in the conspiracy theories of the US Labour Party. The belief in sinister and mysterious bodies that are deliberately spreading diseases is a very clear link between the witch mania of the Reformation and […]
[…] made Shadow Chancellor by the late John Smith, he did not believe it but thought he had to go along with the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ to get Labour into office; but for at least a decade he appears to me to have been a true believer. And you can see the appeal of this […]
[…] in the 1970s. Hain, who unfortunately failed to unseat the dreadful David Mellor in Putney at the General Election, made some forthright and astute comments on the Labour Party’s failure to take all this on board in Time Out (15 April 1987). Vague No 18/19 Programming Phenomena and Conspiracy Theory Not really a book, […]
[…] translations of the Mao-Khrushchev conversations of 1958/9. Click on the ‘CWIHP Dossiers’ link on the CWIHP website http://cwihp.si.edu/dossiers.htm Anti-red spiels Lawrence Black’s ‘”The Bitterest Enemies of Communism”; Labour Revisionists, Atlanticism and the Cold War’ (Contemporary British History, Autumn 2001) is a very interesting paper, (29 pages with 150 notes) which contains a lot of […]
[…] developed in the fifties and sixties, how IRD came to circulate (and the rest of Whitehall let it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what […]
[…] Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the Christian People’s Alliance all support that call for a ban on ‘manipulation weapons’. But the British government, formed by the Labour Party’s leader in Parliament, Prime Minister Tony Blair, has stubbornly refused to adopt a policy of banning manipulation weapons. So has the lower house of the […]
[…] sell as when it was offered as world revolution. Notes 5 This, presumably, is the ‘real internationalism’ so often referred to but hardly ever defined by the Labour left. On this see the examples given in Lobster 33 pp.2/3. 6 If the American anti-globalisation left could hold its collective nose long enough to actually […]
