Part 1, 1974-83 See also: Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction This essay does not set out to be a comprehensive history of fascism in this period but rather to … Read more
[…] 5 On things Italian, there was a very interesting ‘Diary’ by Tobias Jones in the London Review of Books, 8 March 2001, which discussed, inter alia, the murder of left-wing journalist Mauro de Mauro in 1970. Jones tells us that the study of the covert operations in Italy in the 1970s is now described […]
[…] could sit easily with a eugenicist agenda for a pure race. Most extreme among those on the organic movement’s fringes were Ludovici, who recommended incest and mass murder, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, who thought that painless lethal chambers would help rid the white races of their ‘degenerates’. Ludovici condemned the organicists for concentrating on […]
[…] me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had happened but […]
[…] surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, and guarantees must be provided to safeguard against abuse’. Alan A. Block, ‘The National Intelligence Service murder and mayhem: a historical document’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 38 (2) (September 2002) pp. 89-136. Frank J. Cilluffo, Ronald A. Marks, and George C. Salmoiraghi, […]
In this issue, as in No 3, we are recycling a lot of material from Irish newspapers, and one in particular, the Sunday News. One of our Irish readers describes the Sunday News as ‘almost wholly Catholic..Nationalist … moderately Social Democratic Labour Party rather than moderately Republican.’ We have no way of checking the veracity … Read more
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast … Read more
[…] it appears to have been loyal to the elected government. The police force, however, is widely held to be corrupt and is probably implicated in the recent murder of the island’s senior Red Cross representative, the person who negotiated the release of hostages after the Speight coup, and was thought to have learned too […]
Notes From the Borderland Larry O’Hara now has his own journal, Notes from the Borderland, the first issue of which appeared in November last year. Like his previous pamphlets, this is full of fascinating information on the far right – the guts of the lead article on a charity scam being run in the UK … Read more
The Time of The Assassins: The Inside Story of the Plot to Kill the Pope Claire Sterling, Angus and Robertson, London 1984 The Plot to Kill the Pope Paul B. Henze, Croom Helm, London 1984 These two books cover the same ground, more or less, and have the same thesis: the KGB used the Bulgarians, … Read more
