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Economic League Documents

Published

In fact very few Economic League Documents, including the annual reports, were publicly available to non-subscribers or their employees, there is however a distinction to be drawn between these documents and the internal "leaked" documents I have had access to. This is by no means a complete list of all the published documents of which I have copies.

• "Annual Reports", various years.

Not available through libraries, but Labour Research, the Labour History Museum and TUC Library have many copies.

• Pamphlets

"The Facts about Industry", Economic League, early 1930's

"The Economic League - Aims, Methods and Achievements", Economic League, 1933

"National Hunger March - Why they are marching", Economic League 1934

"German Propaganda in Britain", Economic League, July 1939

"Fifty Fighting Years", Economic League, 1967

"Companies Under Attack-Political Disruption in Industry", Economic League, 1986

"Revolutionaries Today", Economic League, a nine part series commencing in 1986

"The Revolution Lives - a guide to Marxist Organisations in Britain", Economic League, 1991

• Books

"The Facts of the case", The Economic Study Club, 1921

• Magazines

"Two Minute News Review", Monthly

"Analysis - A Review of Current Issues" monthly from November 1990

Unpublished

I had access to a very large number of unpublished internal documents including:

• North West Economic League blacklist, 1985

• Minutes of the Research Group of the Economic League, 7th December 1988.

• Lists of subscribers and companies using the solicitors Barnes & Co to hide donations

• Numerous lists of Regional Council members

• Minutes of the Director General's Advisory Committee, 25th August 1987

• Assorted minutes of Central Council and Policy and Finance Committee

• Letters circulated to subscribers following exposes of the blacklist in the media

• Articles, and Pamphlets Specifically about the League

This list does not include the numerous newspaper and magazine articles about the League.

Mark Hollingsworth

• Mark Hollingsworth and Richard Norton-Taylor, "Blacklist: The Inside Story of Political Vetting", Hogarth, 1988

• Mark Hollingsworth and Charles Tremayne, "The Economic League", The Silent Macarthyism, Liberty, 1989

Labour Research Department

• "What is the Economic League?", 1937

• "A subversive Guide to the Economic League", 1969

Independent Labour Party Information Committee

• "The Economic League at Work - Capitalist Propaganda Exposed", September 1926

State Research Bulletin

• "Bulletin No. 7", September 1978

Arthur McIvor

• "'A Crusade for Capitalism': The Economic League 1919-39", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol 23, 1988

• "The Economic League 1919-39" Research Working Paper, Polytechnic of Central London, 1983

• "Combating the Left: Victimisation and Anti-Labour Activities on Clydeside, 1900-1939", Arthur McIvor and Hugh Patterson - in R. Duncan and A McIvor (eds), Militant Workers, John Donald

John Baker White

• "Red Russia Arms", Burrup Mathieson, 1932

• "The Innocents' Clubs" (pamphlet), John Baker White, 1935

• "Dover Nurenberg Return", Burrup Mathieson, 1937

• "The Red Network", International Anti-Communist Entente, 1939

• "It's Gone for Good", Vacher & Sons, 1941

• "A Soldier Dares to Think", Vacher, 1942

• "Nationalisation: Chaos or Cure?", Forum Books, 1946

• "The Soviet Spy System", Falcon Press, 1948

• "The Big Lie", Evans Bros, 1955

• "Pattern for Conquest [On Russian intrigue and espionage in Europe since 1945]", Robert Hale, 1956

• "Sabotage is Suspected", Evans Bros, 1957

• "True Blue", Frederick Muller, 1970

General

• Julian Amery "Approach March", 1973

• Christopher Andrew, "Secret Service", Heinemann, 1985

• Patrick Beesley, "Room 40", OUP, 1982

• Ron Bean, "Liverpool Shipping Employers and the Anti-Bolshevik Activities of J.M.Hughs", Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, No 34, Spring 1977.

• A B Carew, "The Lower Decks of the Royal Navy 1900-39", Manchester University Press, 1981

• Maurice Cowling, "The Impact of Labour", Cambridge University Press, 1975; "The impact of Hitler", Cambridge University Press, 1975

• Tom Cullen, "Maundy Gregory - Purveyor of Honours", Bodley Head

• Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, "Smear", Harper Collins, 1991

• Barbara Lee Farr, Unpublished PhD Thesis, "The Development and Impact of Right-wing Politics in England 1903-32", University of Illinois, 1976

• Paul Foot, "Who Framed Colin Wallace", Macmillan, 1989

• Martin Gilbert's Companion Volume V to his biography of Churchill.

• Richard Griffiths "Fellow Travellers of the Far Right", Constable, 1980

• Robert Graves & Alan Hodge "The Long Weekend - a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939", first published 1940, reprinted by Hutchison, 1985

• Simon Haxey, "Tory MP",

• Eric Hobsbawm, Volume 3 of the Pelican History of Britain, 1969

• John Hope, "Fascism, the Security Service and the Curious Careers of Maxwell Knight and James McGuirk Hughes", Lobster #22; "British Fascism and the State 1917-1927: a re-examination of the documentary evidence", Labour History Review, Vol 57, No3, Winter 1992

• Ellic Howe, "The Black Game", Michael Joseph, 1982

• Mike Hughes, "Churchill and The Focus", Lobster 25, June 1993, Profiles of Blinker Hall, Lobster 26 and George Makgill, Lobster 28, [Original Dorril's],

• H. Montgomery Hyde "The trial of Roger Casement", 1960

• David Irving's "Churchill's War"

• Admiral Sir William James, "The Eyes of the Navy", Methuen 1955, "The Sky Was Always Blue", Methuen 1951

• Keith Jeffrey and Peter Hennessey, "States of Emergency", Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983

• Douglas Jerrold, "Georgian Adventures", reprinted the following year by the Right Book Club

• Tom Jones, "Whitehall Diary" ed K. Middlemas, London 1969

• Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn (editors) ,"The Politics of Marginality", Frank Cass, 1990

• David Leigh, "The Wilson Plot", Heineman, 1988

• Lobster #11, #12, #22, #26,#28. Lobster was, until issue #26, Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril. Confusingly there are now two Lobsters produced each bearing the same number! Dorril Lobsters are available from Stephen Dorril at 135 School Street, Holmfirth West Yorkshire, HD7 2YB, Telephone 0484 681388. Ramsay Lobsters are available from Robin Ramsay at 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull HU5 3JB, Telephone 0482 447558. I have contributed to the Dorril Lobster which means that Robin Ramsay no longer talks to me. However he was exceptionally supportive during the writing of this book, and read an earlier draft for me and made invaluable suggestions. I would therefore like to record my sincere thanks for his support. Both Steve and Robin can supply back copies of the jointly produced issues.

• Labour Research Department, "The Federation of British Industries", 1950

• Edward Luttwak, "Coup D'Etat, Penguin, 1968

• Wilfred MacCartney, "Walls Have Mouths", Left Book Club, 1936

• Margaret Morris, "The General Strike", Penguin 1976

• Panikos Panayi, "The British Empire Union in the First World War" in "The Politics of marginality", edited by Tony Kushner and Kenneth Lunn, Frank Cass, 1990

• Kim Philby "My Secret War", 1968

• Bernard Porter, "Plots and Paranoia"

• Anthony Read and David Fisher, "Colonel Z", Hodder and Stoughton, 1984

• G.R. Searle "Corruption in British Politics", OUP, 1987

• William Stevenson "A Man Called Intrepid", Macmillan, 1976

• Eugene Spiers "Focus" (1963)

• John Stubbs, "The Impact of the Great War on the Conservatives" in "The Politics of Reappraisal 1918-1939"

• Bickham Sweet-Escort "Baker Street Irregular", 1971

• Julian Symmonds, "The Great Beast", Granada, 1973

• Sir Basil Thomson, "Queer People", Hodder & Stoughton, 1922 and "The Scene Changes", Collins 1939

• Richard Thurlow, "Fascism in Britain - a History 1918-1985", Basil Blackwell 1987

• Cecil Turner (editor), "The Case for Free Enterprise", Bachman & Turner, 1979

• J A Turner, "The British Commonwealth Union and the General Election of 1918", English Historical Review, July 1978

• G C Webber, "Ideology of the British Right 1918-19", Groom Helm, 1986

• Nesta Webster, "The Socialist Network"

• Peter Wright, "Spycatcher", Hienneman Australia, 1987.

• W. J. West "Truth Betrayed", Duckworth, 1987

• Nigel West, "A matter of Trust", Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982

• Nicholas Whapshot and George Brock, "Thatcher", Macdonald, 1983

• Harold Wilson, "The War on World Poverty - An appeal to the Conscience of Mankind", Gollanz, 1953¸