[…] Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: “This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not be put off any longer…Diana’s relationship with Dodi Fayed and her role in public […]
[…] is beyond dispute that elements of the far right put up Italian political refugees, there is no evidence that this fitted into an overall euro-fascist division of labour. The German connection In February 1983 three Germans, Gottfried Hepp, Walter Kexeland Ulrich Tillman, wanted in connection with bomb attacks there, were entertained by the self-styled […]
[…] his intelligence connections were maintained because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of ‘stopping’ Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. (New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike her predecessors, Mrs Thatcher had maintained an interest in intelligence matters while in opposition. Through journalist Chapman […]
[…] they began launching raids on Yugoslavia. ASIO was almost a parody of the right-wing security/intelligence outfit in bed with the right. The author’s account also shows a Labour Party dimly aware of all this, making the occasional half-hearted stab at reining in ASIO, which the agency and its conservative allies easily outflanked or overturned. […]
[…] about rock bands in Britain I never heard of, part poetry (seriously naff poetry), part rock culture trivia, and three huge pieces; ‘The CIA’s manipulation of the Labour Party’, ‘The FBI’s secret war against the American Indians’ and ‘British intelligence and covert action: how the British state supports international terrorism’. It’s a funny mixture. […]
[…] blowing up a draft office or a bank seemed sexy and exciting at the time – the group did not connect with the working class or organised labour, let alone with straight America, grazing in the malls. The author tries at the end to show that, despite their complete failure, the WU were important […]
[…] the Tory Party in 1979. On the British non-Trotskyist Left its origins lie in the 1975-78 period, and the ‘national security’ scares that were run against the Labour Government — the Agee-Hosenball expulsions and the Aubery, Berry and Campbell (ABC) trial for example. And these were mostly triggered by the fall-out from Watergate and […]
[…] and political trends in Australia and South East Asia. He outlined to them the strategy to bring Robert Hawke to power.. He forecast that Hawke would be Labour Leader by late 1982 and Prime Minister by 1983. Hawke would also be in power for ten years and not for one term. (Hawke PM John […]
[…] practice as opposed to just finance and accounting. This involved the collection and classification of both general and detailed intelligence on many hitherto peripheral matters. These included labour relations, availability of raw materials, plants, products, markets and the effectiveness of the organisation and its future prospects. They had also begun to work closely with […]
[…] Huey Long. Huey Long? The quasi-socialist Huey Long, not the friend-of-organised-crime Huey Long. The current Democratic Party’s timidity drives Palast nuts in the same way that the Labour Party used to drive people like me nuts, watching them afraid to make obvious points for fear of………who knows what. But the Democrats are all he’s […]
