Tag: Luftwaffe

Email: Tariq Ali and Churchill – Beware Trotskyites Bearing Gifts! (21.12.2023)

The post-1945 UN, of course, was heavily influenced by Joseph Stalin at its beginning – hence Tariq Ali’s attack upon it. Tariq Ali is actually discussing the pre-existing ‘League of Nations’ – rather than the UN – but this is all part of his ‘entryist’ strategy that misleads as it informs. As a secular Muslim he automatically takes the Palestinian side – which is an expression of the inherently ‘racist’ attitudes that exist within Trotskyism (hence Ali’s anti-China views). The argument against Israeli fascism is one of the asymmetric application of International Law – and should not involve the arbitrary application of ‘race’ or ‘religion’.

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UK: How The Guardian Newspaper “Begs for Money” – By Belittling Communist History! (20.12.2023)

Enver Hoxha, like ALL General Secretaries of the various Communist Parties – was ‘elected’ into that role through the auspices of Centralised Democracy – a process that empowers (and enfranchises) far more working-class people in a meaningful way than liberal democracy can or will. Like all “Socialist” Representatives – the people living under this “Socialist” system could of removed Enver Hoxha at anytime for any reason – a “Right” MISSING from ALL liberal democracies (and a Right the Albanian people never chose to exercise)! As Marina Hyde is not working-class – She “loves discipline when it is applied it to others!” Of course, Marina Hyde has very little to say regarding the Zionist Israelis killing and maiming around 70,000 Palestinians in just a single month during that country’s invasion of Palestine! After-all, it took the Nazi German Luftwaffe around 18 months of continuously blanket-bombing the UK (between 1940-1941) to amass 70,000 casualties during the Blitz!

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Lewisham: Locating the Now Lost “Horton Street”! (25.11.2023)

During September, 1940, Nazi Germany unleashed its ‘Blitz’ attack on London! The Luftwaffe dropped thousands of tonnes of bombs on East London – as Hitler sought to destroy the physical bodies of the British working-class (thus preventing them from joining the British Arm Forces) – and to destroy the morale of those who were left! Not only this, by bombing various targets in the UK – using conventional Bomber-Aeroplanes and unconventional Flying Bombs (the fabled ‘V’ or ‘Vengeance’ weapons) Hitler attempted to rip the infrastructure of the UK from beneath the feet of its inhabitants! In the 18 months of intense blanket-bombing – a tactic Hitler had perfected in Spain during the Civil War (1936-1939) in that country – around 70,000 British people were killed!

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The Clan Gibson of Sutton! (9.11.2023)

Our branch of the Gibson family is recorded as having been ‘rope-makers’ and are believed to have originally migrated out of Scotland hundreds of years ago – and to have ‘walked’ down through England until they eventually settled in East London. This is a journey that took decades and involved small clusters settling here and there. Featured is out Scottish Tartan – but as ‘Gibson’ is of Viking heritage – the Vikings settled in both England and Scotland at different times and during the centuries prior to the Norman Conquest of 1066 CE. As the Normans were Vikings who had settled in France – this adds yet another level of transmission. The ‘Son of Gibb’ was thought to have been a mighty Viking warrior!

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Chislehurst Home Guard: “C” Company 54th Kent Battalion! (7.11.2023)

This did, in some areas, include women – with the purpose of forming a ‘mass’ volunteer force comprised of hundreds of thousands of eager individuals who were dedicated to the task of protecting their homes through the logical use of local knowledge. Foreign Paratroopers, by way of example, despite their fitness and daring, may drop both sides of a house (in an unfamiliar area) and have no idea where they are, giving time enough for the inhabitants of the house to open-fire (from the high ground) – thus removing the threat! The soldiers of “C” Company of the 54th Battalion of the Kent Home Guard wore a Khaki British Army-style uniform and possessed a number of very different (old and new) fire-arms (preserved in the Museum maintained at Chislehurst Cave).

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Imperial War Museum: How a WWII British Anderson Shelter Saved the Lives of My Family! (26.10.2023)

There were different types of government-provided air-raid shelters issued during WWII. However, the version depicted here – is very close to that issued to my mother’s family (surnamed ‘Gibson’) who lived in Lewisham, South London. During September, 1940, the Nazi Germany ‘Luftwaffe’ blanket-bombed East London and killed and wound thousands of British people. During the entire 18-months of the ‘Blitz’ – the Luftwaffe inflicted 40,000 casualties in London and 70,000 all across the UK! My family lived in a three-storied house in Fordyce Road – with a generation living on each floor.

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