[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] is much harder than it looks at the outset; at any rate it is with the kind of knowledge which people like Scott have to offer and the kind of limp, career-minded politicians we now have in the Democratic and Labour parties. This is vintage Scott. He remains my model of how to do this.
[…] section (pp. 336-7) on his attendance at the 1995 Bilderberg conference. Of this he writes: ‘I am sent by the Blair office as none of the front-line Labour spokesmen can go’. Oddly or not Bilderberg is not in the index. Generalissimo Somehow it was terribly cheering to learn from a posting by […]
