From the YouTube video
Hal GP Colebatch, West Australian author/historian/poet, discusses his new book "Australia's Secret War" covering Australian strikes hampering the war effort in WW11. Waterside workers strikes, go-slows, sabotage and thefts involving supplies of troops and materiel to our fighting troops in the islands campaigns, are covered in detail. Colebatch's researchers expose an appalling situation covered up for 60 years by the orthodox history profession.
2 comments:
I was surprised to find that there had been strikes in British coal mines during the war - and even in aircraft factories during the Battle of Britain. For a wider view of the Battle of Britain period, I recommend Richard North’s “ The Many not the Few”.
It should not be forgotten that it was Communist party policy to hamper the war effort in what they regarded as an imperialist war against Nazi Germany. The Molotov/Ribbentrop pact was in force.
Of course, as soon as Hitler attacked Russia, the policy changed and communist shop stewards became great enthusiasts for the “ anti fascist war”.
It was from his experiences in the BBC at this time that George Orwell eventually created the Ministry of Truth in “ 1984”
Edward - it seems to be one of those wartime stories which few people care to examine. I'd like to read North's book but the Kindle version is expensive. Maybe I'll come across a secondhand copy.
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