[…] centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we might call the British way of life. The survival of the CPGB […]
[PDF file]: […] media to create a popular image of most wanted criminals and the need for G-men to capture or kill them. The twin threats of spectacular criminals and communist subversives fed the FBI director’s greed for power over what became a kind of federal secret police. At almost the same time, Harry Anslinger, previously an […]
[PDF file]: […] later in the 1930s. He argues that Jenks’ own hatred of Jews was simply a radicalisation of common, mainstream prejudices against Jews as rapacious capitalists, criminals or Communist subversives. Jenks himself had little interest in the issue, and discussed the matter in depth on only one occasion, in his book Spring Comes Again of […]
[…] long before his death. A scathing review of his 1956 book Pan-Africanism or Communism? described it as “infuriating”; it classified Padmore among those “who have revolted against Communist conduct and cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael […]
[PDF file]: […] et de Contre-Espionnage. Following the WUCC meetings Colonel Mercier was posted to Berne, Switzerland, in 1952, under cover as Commercial Attaché. Whilst there, he ran operations against Communist North African Nationalists who were seeking asylum in Switzerland. Mercier collaborated with Swiss Federal Police (contrary to Swiss law). In late March 1957 his contact in […]
[…] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]
[PDF file]: […] his membership last year” or something like that.’ And Robinson would be liaising with MI5 to access its files. In the same essay, Saunders wrote of the Communist Party of Great Britain: ‘In the international communist movement, the British party was a laughing stock, correctly assumed to be so 11 Script at . thoroughly […]
[PDF file]: […] Richard Gott’s account (above) of the Guardian’s long-standing proAmerican stance made me wonder, for the umpteenth time, if the Guardian had been part of the NCL (non- communist left) supported/ penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take […]
[PDF file]: […] £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP having ‘an influence within the trade union movement vastly out of proportion […]
[PDF file]: […] for Cuba and that people at this party had in the past talked openly about wanting to see President Kennedy dead.’ Others at the party included the communist writer Emilio Carballido, General 10 Jose de Jesus Clark Flores, who appears elsewhere in the story allegedly giving Oswald money at the Cuban embassy, and ‘two […]
