[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] already taken all this on board. The people who ought to read this – in this country the naive enthusiasts for the ‘American way’ in the Parliamentary Labour Party, in the media (for example the idiotic Jonathan Freedland) and among the junior policy wonks feeding Tony Blair’s illusions – will not do so. There […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] which overlap with, and are integrated into, the British State. Introduction When Thatcher was first elected to office in 1979, unemployment was already rising fast and the Labour Party leadership (Callaghan and Healey in particular) had, in practical terms, already been converted to ‘monetarism’. (1) It was not long before Ian MacGregor was appointed […]
[…] delivery is spook-proof. Does disinformation work? It does with some journalists. Take Andrew Rawnsley and his lavishly praised Servants of the People: the Inside Story of New Labour (London: Penguin, 2001). On pp. 256 and 7 he gives us a thumbnail sketch of the events leading to the NATO attack on Serbia over Kosovo. […]
