The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 18th October 2024
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 18th October 2024
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
During the Cold War not a day went past without some “red scare” story in the news. The Berlin Wall; Gulags; Eastern Europeans groaning under the Soviet jackboot; Reds fomenting strikes to bring down “Western civilisation”; communists taking “Moscow gold” and legion of Russian spies creeping around looking for atom secrets. All of this under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust that only the Anglo-American nuclear deterrent could prevent.
These days we’re told it’s the hidden hands of the Russians and Iranians who are generating “mayhem” on our streets, fomenting civil unrest and poisoning the minds of young children to do their bidding. Or so Ken McCallum, the Director-General of MI5, says.
Last week the chief of the secret police delivered a speech at the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in London in which he said Russia was on a “mission to generate mayhem” on British soil while Iran was plotting attacks on “an unprecedented pace and scale” to destabilise the country.
Some think McCallum is preparing the ground for new laws to curb the Palestine solidarity movement that has swept the country over the last year. Others fear that this is just the start of a hate campaign that will lead up to a direct Anglo-American attack on the Islamic Republic in support of the genocidal Israeli war against the Palestinians. Or he might simply be trying to get the new Labour government to beef up his budget by conjuring up new threats to British security…