[…] 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 […]
[…] been overcome: Preston will send a copy of the entire piece (eight, A4 pages) to anyone who sends a stamped, addressed, A4 envelope to him at Independent Labour Publications (ILP), 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds, LS11 9LW. I strongly recommended this to anyone interested in the Harry Newton story. Re: Class War One of […]
[…] diverse as Rudolf Hess in Britain, the peace plots of 1940, and black magic circles in South Wales (those three all linked together, incidentally); Blunt and Burgess; Labour Party politicians, war-time diplomacy and the sexual habits of Mrs Simpson and a great many others; the rise of Ian Paisley, Kincora and John McKeague etc. […]
[…] review by Simon Matthews of Richard Griffiths’ Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism. Matthews mentions two ‘bombshells’. The first concerns negotiations between the Labour MP Richard Stokes and von Papen, German Ambassador to Turkey in early 1940. The second relates to the leaking to the Nazis by Right Club member […]
[…] phenomenon can be seen in the two pieces on the Economic League by Arthur McIvor. The version for the Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, Spring 1988, is titled ‘Political blacklisting and anti-socialist activity between the wars.’ But for the Journal of Contemporary History Vol 23, 1988, it became ‘A […]
[…] family in particular: its immense industrial power and suspect financial dealings and the undermining of the German people by its industrial policy of employing Slavs as cheap labour. The Wittgensteins were also Hitler’s enemies in the world of music, for they had adopted the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim, whom Wagner abhorred. Hitler followed Wagner […]
[…] (FARI). John Bruce Lockhart (Obituary, Independent 13 May 1995). SIS officer. Niall MacDermot (Obituary by David Leigh in the Guardian, 26 February 1996). War-time MI5 officer, later Labour MP and Minister in the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, but probably because […]
[…] ‘fringe patriots’ in World War One and thereafter; relations with the Tories; and the twin tensions between social reform and nationalism and the interests of capital and labour. The chapter on Oswald Mosley is a fine distillation of what remains pertinent in his political traject-ory, surpassed only by the exemplary consideration of Social Credit […]
[…] I am aware of. The most pressing was that had he sent UK troops to Vietnam there would have been massive problems with the left-wing of the Labour Party in and outside parliament. And in those days this mattered. The second reason was suggested by the former SIS officer Anthony Cavendish, who told me […]
[…] of, in fact, up to and including little hints about possible parapolitical dimensions. Did the US oil companies help the SDP to ensure the demise of a Labour government which might have imposed more conditions on them? Did the US government help fund the Scottish National Party in the 1970s? These questions are not […]
