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SPOOKS intercepted Labour Party chairman Harold Laski’s private correspondence during the 1930s and ’40s in a bid to expose his links to the Communist Party.
Files released today show that MI5 intercepted Laski’s private letters from 1930 until his death in 1950 aged 56 — despite an MI5 report to the Home Office as early as 1930 saying he was “not a communist.”
Laski was a prominent Labour leftwinger, who chaired the party during its landslide election victory in 1945, having moved towards Marxism during the extreme economic hardship that engulfed Britain in the 1930s.
The daughter of a legendary blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter has spoken out against the reactionary move, says MIKE SCHNEIDER
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
PHIL KATZ looks at how the Daily Worker, the Morning Star's forerunner, covered the breathless last days of World War II 80 years ago
