Ioan Ratiu. The Fabian Conspiracy

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The Fabian Society, the leading think tank of the British ruling class, is the initiator and key driving force behind the processes that are destroying Civilization.

MY PREFACE

Over the past sixty years, we have witnessed the expansion and deepening of processes leading to the degradation of societies in the countries of European civilization and, ultimately, to the destruction of Civilization itself.

These processes are not the result of the blind forces of history. They are implemented by specific supranational structures, including the leadership of the UN, the leadership of the European Union, and the World Bank.

Recognizing that these structures merely act as executors of someone else's will, many ask: is there an organization that initiates and directs these processes?

The answer is provided by historian Ioan Ratiu's book, " The Milner-Fabian Conspiracy", published in the UK in 2012. The book is both a continuation and a development of the works of two prominent American historians:

• Carroll Quigley, "The Anglo-American Establishment" (1981);

• Rose L. Martin, "The Fabian Freeway" (1966).

The author's extensive research shows that the Fabian Society, the leading think tank of the British ruling class, is the initiator and key driving force behind the processes that are destroying Civilization.

Igor I. Isaev, January 2026.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Fabianism is the world's most influential social, political, economic and cultural movement. At the same time, it is one of the least known, at least to the wider public. Even less known are its aims, methods and global reach. This is entirely intentional. Its almost invisible London headquarters (see picture) is witness not only to its "humble" beginnings but also to its policy of stealth.

As a subversive movement, Fabianism has always, and quite deliberately, operated from behind the scenes. According to one of its leaders, the Fabian Society, which has fathered the movement, was organized "for thought and discussion", and not for electoral action which it left to other organizations, while encouraging its members to infiltrate and operate from within those organizations (G. D. H., Cole, 1942). This tactic has rendered the movement's activities and influence virtually invisible to outsiders.

The Fabian Society's headquarters are at 14 Deans Yard, London.

Contents

• Karl Marx, Thomas Davidson and the Fabian Society

• Bernard Shaw and the Big Four

• Fabian "permeation" or Socialism by stealth

• Wolf in sheep's clothing

• Financing Fabianism

• The Milner Group

• The Rainbow Circle and the Coefficients

• "Educate, Agitate, Organize": Fabianism and Education

• Reinventing culture: the Fabian New Age

• Fabianism and faith: preaching the gospels of atheism and false religion

• Fabianism and government: the Lib-Lab conspiracy and the Labour Party

• Making Britain Socialist

• A thoroughly Fabianized World: Fabianism's global network

• Fabianism and World Revolution

• The "Open Conspiracy"

• Fabianism and World Government

• Fabianism, dictatorship and genocide

• Fabianism and the Islamization of the West

• References

KARL MARX, THOMAS DAVIDSON AND THE FABIAN SOCIETY

The Fabian Society is a semi-secret private organization which owes its ideological beginnings to the influence of two men, Karl Marx and Thomas Davidson. Its founding members were supporters of the Marxist Democratic Federation (SDF, Social Democratic Federation from 1884), established in 1881 by Henry Hyndman. Just over seven months after Marx's death, on 24 October 1883, this group gathered around Thomas Davidson, a Scottish-born American schoolmaster with Utopian Socialist leanings who wanted to establish a "community of superior people". On 7 November, it was resolved to form an association for the purpose of "reconstructing society in accordance with the highest moral possibilities" (as will become clear, these "highest moral possibilities" were in fact dictated by Marxist ideas such as common ownership and state control). On 4 January 1884 it was resolved to call the association "The Fabian Society".

As evident from Resolution 1 of the 4 January meeting, the Society's name was chosen in reference to the delaying tactics used by Roman general and dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus against superior Carthaginian forces and reflected the Fabian belief in the gradual establishment of Socialism as opposed to the more militant methods advocated by other Socialist revolutionaries.

The revolution-by-stages approach was also reflected in the language of Fabian publications. In February 1884, while the Fabians agreed that the militantly Marxist Democratic Federation was "doing a good and useful work" and was "worthy of sympathy and support", the language it used in its literature they deemed to be unacceptable and decided to produce their own literature (Pugh, p. 5).

Despite the more guarded and "polite" language, however, Fabian writings were thoroughly Socialist from the outset and have remained so ever since. As admitted by leading Fabian Edward Pease, the Society's very first publication, Fabian Tract No. 1 (April 1884), was a thorough-going statement of Socialism (Pease, p. 25).

BERNARD SHAW AND THE BIG FOUR

Although George Bernard Shaw is widely known for his plays, the fact is that he was first and foremost a Socialist activist. Irish-born Shaw had moved to London in 1876 where he was a struggling journalist living on subsidies from his mother and spending his afternoons studying in the British Museum reading room which was also frequented by Marx. He became friendly with Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor (who was working there as a copyist) and it is highly likely that he met Marx himself.

In 1882, Shaw began to attend meetings of the Social Democratic Federation and ostensibly found the purpose of his life after reading the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital (in French): "From that hour", he declared, "I became a man with some business in the world." Having become a militant Marxist, Shaw in 1884 was about to join the Social Democratic Federation but chose the middle-class Fabian Society instead, feeling that it was more likely to attract men of his own "intellectual habits" (Henderson, pp. 98, 102; but see p. 60, below). He was admitted as a member in September that year (Pease, p. 27).

In October, the Fabians' belief in Marx's alleged economic genius was badly shaken by the critique of fellow Fabian Philip Wicksteed (a follower of economist Stanley Jevons), prompting them to take up the study of economics. Indeed, the discovery of the fact that the theories of their ideological master were unsound led Shaw and his friends to form the reading circle "Hampstead Historic Club" where Marx's theory of value and other Marxian inventions were much discussed and no doubt fuelled the Fabian obsession with Political Economics. This obsession resulted in the establishment of the British Economic Association ( Royal Economic Society from 1902), the London School of Economics and similar economics-centred outfits (Henderson, pp. 155-161; Martin, pp. 15, 35).

Contrary to Fabian claims, the fact that Thomas Davidson himself (along with leading Fabians) was also involved in the founding of the American Economic Association in Saratoga (Martin, p. 123) indicates, as shown below, that far from being the creation of selfless idealists, the whole project was the doing of self-serving economic interests.

Unfortunately, the Fabians' criticism of Marxist theory did not translate into doubts about Marxism itself. Shaw insisted that he had never taken up a book that was better worth reading than Capital. He contended that while Marx's economic theories may be flawed, his political views remained valid. Marxism simply needed some readjustment to make it conform to scientific developments such as the findings of Jevons. After all, he wrote, the "arch Marxite" Engels himself had suggested that Marx's theories be revised.

It was to take decades for Fabians to admit that their own economic theories were as bogus as those of Marx (Healey, pp. 377-83).

Meanwhile, however, having constructed for themselves an air of learning on the subject of economics, they followed Marx's example of using economic theory to eliminate opponents and to promote Socialism even harder. Fabian Tract No. 3 (June 1885) proudly referred to the Society as "having in view the advance of Socialism in England" and the Fabian Basis (1887), which all handpicked prospective members had to subscribe to, clearly stated "The Fabian Society consists of Socialists."

Having made an impression on the Society from the start, Shaw was elected to the Executive in January 1885 and surrounded himself with his friends from the Colonial Office, Sidney Webb and Sydney Olivier. They were admitted as members in May, followed by Olivier's Oxford friend, Graham Wallas, in April 1886.

The Fabian Society's "Big Four": George Bernard Shaw (writer), Sidney Webb (1st Baron Passfield), Sidney Olivier (1st Baron Olivier), and Graham Wallace (social psychologist).

Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, Sidney Olivier and Graham Wallace became the dominant "Big Four" of the Fabian Society. Using his eloquence and talent for drama and showmanship, as well as his overpowering frame, Shaw soon imposed himself as a dominant figure, becoming a primary driving force behind the Society. In particular, he was responsible for conveying the leadership's ideology to ordinary Fabians, to the wider circle of sympathizers and to the general public, through his propagandistic plays and other Fabian publications.

FABIAN "PERMEATION" OR SOCIALISM BY STEALTH

The Fabians' trademark tactic of "permeation", or infiltration and manipulation of other bodies (government, political organizations, etc.) for Socialist ends, was not a Fabian creation. It had in fact originated in Marxian circles. Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864), the dictatorial leader of Germany's Labour Party and one of Marx's financial sponsors, had long campaigned for Socialist reform with government assistance (Berlin, p. 155). Marx himself from 1867 came around to accepting the possibility of introducing Socialism by non-revolutionary means and so had Engels. This clearly shows that Fabianism was an offshoot of "revisionist" or "reformed" Marxism which, in the face of failure to assert itself by force of arms, had developed new tactics for imposing its agenda on an unsuspecting world (cf. Martin, pp. 119-20).

Indeed, despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Marx in his old age had become adept at using covert Marxists like his "Tory" friend Maltman Barry to exert influence on members of parliament, who, Marx tells us, would throw up their hands in horror if they knew that it was the Red Terror Doctor, as they called him, who had been their "souffleur" or prompter (Marx, Letter to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, 27 Sept. 1877, MECW, vol. 45, pp. 277-8).

After Marx, permeation or in Shaw's own words, "wire-pulling the government in order to get Socialist measures passed", became a key element of Fabian policy particularly promoted by Sidney and Beatrice Webb who "loved scheming dearly" (B. Webb, 1948).

In his paper The Fabian Society: Its Early History (6 Feb. 1892) Bernard Shaw explained the Fabian tactic of permeation which was also set out in the Society's "Report on Fabian Policy" (1896), as the exertion of pressure and persuasion on all forces regardless of their political allegiance, while supporting actions advancing the Socialist cause and opposing those that were "reactionary" (Pease, pp. 188-9).

Fabian Society Executive member (later chairman and president) George D. H. Cole explained this tactic as follows:

"In every field the characteristic Fabian policy has been that of permeation. In accordance with their doctrine of continuity the Fabians set out to develop existing institutions by permeating with this or that element of their doctrine those who had power to influence policy, e.g. the civil service, the political parties, the professions, the administration of business, and local government. It was part of their creed that no sharp line could be drawn between socialists and non-socialists and that many who would not call themselves socialists could be persuaded to help with particular reforms for making socialism." (G.D. H. Cole, 1932).

The natural target of Fabian permeation was the Liberal Party which was receptive to Socialist ideas and amenable to Fabian manipulation. However, the Fabians also joined Radical and Conservative bodies and, by making speeches and moving resolutions at their meetings, as well as by using parliamentary candidates as their tools, they succeeded in planting their ideas in many heads that would not have even remotely considered themselves Socialist. By 1888, this had already been put into practice with great success. As stated by Sidney Webb, the Society believed in the policy of inculcating Socialist thought and Socialist projects into the minds not only of converts, but of individuals of all political denominations including Conservatives and of all social classes, from workers and trade unionists to employers and financiers (S. Webb, 1920).

In sum, what becomes evident is that Fabianism was a subversive movement aiming to establish Socialism by systematically infiltrating, manipulating or controlling all the relevant areas of government, business and politics, indeed, all aspects of society.

WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

As if to confirm the subversive nature of the Fabian project, Bernard Shaw in 1910 commissioned a stained-glass window showing, from left to right, Fabian leaders Edward R. Pease, Sidney Webb and Shaw himself (in the green coat) forging a new world out of the old, while other Fabians kneel worshipfully before a stack of Fabian writings. Though intended to be humorous, the Fabians' adulatory attitude towards Fabian writings (elevated to the status of divine writ), accurately portrays the cult-like nature of Socialism in general and of Fabian Socialism, in particular. The making of Socialism (or Fabianism) into a quasi-religious movement was a conscious objective of the Fabian leadership (see Shaw, below).

Stained glass window of the Fabian Society in the Bernard Shaw Library at the London School of Economics (Wikipedia).
The central panel depicts Fabian leaders Sidney Webb and Bernard Shaw forging a new world on the anvil. To their left is the Society's secretary, Edward Pease, blowing the bellows. Below are figures of active members of the Fabian Society.

The window carries the logo: "Remould it [the World] nearer to the heart's desire", the last line from a quatrain by the medieval Iranian poet Omar Khayyam which reads:

Dear love, couldst thou and I with fate conspire

To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire

Would we not shatter it to bits, and then

Remould it nearer to the heart's desire!

and which expresses the Fabians' plan to destroy and reconstruct society along Fabian lines.

Significantly, the window also shows, in the background, the Fabian coat-of-arms consisting of a wolf in sheep's clothing (above the globe) holding a red flag with the initials "F. S.". The Fabian Window, as it is known, was executed by Caroline Townsend and is now located at the London School of Economics.

The Fabian Society's coat-of-arms a wolf in sheep's clothing reflects its deceptive tactics.
The Fabians' socialist rhetoric about a just social order serves as a cover for their gradual changes that ultimately lead to the establishment of a totalitarian regime, as described in the novel "1984" by former Fabian George Orwell.

As proof of its enduring significance to British Socialists, the window was unveiled in April 2006 by Prime Minister Tony Blair (a Fabian Society member), who said that a lot of the values the Fabians and George Bernard Shaw stood for would be "very recognizable" in today's Labour Party ("A piece of Fabian history unveiled at LSE", LSE News and Media, 20 April 2006 www2.lse.ac.uk).

FINANCING FABIANISM

Equally revealing are the means by which leading Fabians financed themselves and their Socialist projects. It will be recalled that Karl Marx himself had lived a life of leisure, using his father's and his upper-class wife's money, as well as that of his life-long sponsor Engels, to promote revolution and take-over by his secret (and illegal) society, the Communist League. This pattern was faithfully copied by leading Fabians.

• Bernard Shaw married Irish heiress Charlotte Payne-Townshend;

• Sidney Webb married Beatrice Potter, daughter of wealthy railway entrepreneur Richard Potter (chairman of the Great Western and Grand Trunk Railways of England and Canada);

• Ramsay MacDonald married Margaret Gladstone, daughter of Professor John Hall Gladstone, etc.

In addition to wealthy Fabians such as

• the lawyer Henry Hunt Hutchinson;

• D'Aicy Reeve;

• the soap manufacturer Joseph Fels, who also financed Lenin (see below); Beatrice Webb's nephew Stafford Cripps;

• and pro-Soviet lawyer Denis Nowell Pritt,

Funds were provided by railway and newspaper magnates and, above all, by international bankers and industrialists like the textile and steel magnates Tata, the chocolate manufacturers Rowntree (who were interrelated with the other chocolate manufacturers and Fabian sponsors, Cadbury) and, significantly, the banker and financier Sir Ernest Cassel, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers (Dahrendorf, pp. 124, 137; Pugh, 129; B. Webb, p. 182; Martin, p. 309).

Luring liberal millionaires into the Fabian web of deceit has been a central concern of the Fabians right from the start. Beatrice Webb's Our Partnership reveals the Fabian leadership's preoccupation with "catching millionaires", "wire-pulling" and "moving all the forces they had control over", while taking care to "appear disinterested" and claiming to be "humble folk whom nobody suspects of power".

A classic illustration is Shaw's propagandistic pamphlet "Socialism for Millionaires" (1886) which apparently started a "millionaire movement", converting steel magnate Carnegie, followed by John Davidson Rockefeller, Jr. of Standard Oil and Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company.

There can be little doubt that Fabian writings like the Webbs' Industrial Democracy were aimed at persuading wealthy industrialists of the "scientific merits" of applied Socialism. At any rate, with the "pillars of Capitalism" quietly working for Socialism, generous financial support for Fabian causes was ensured for generations to come. Rowntree, Barrow Cadbury, Rothschild, Rockefeller and allied interests continue to support the Fabian Society and its projects.

More generally, funding was obtained from annual membership fees and the sale of Fabian writings. However, perhaps the cleverest means the Fabians have devised to finance their projects was getting the trade unions to support their Members of Parliament and getting governments to pump tax-payers' money into Fabian causes, the latter being a feat they were able to duplicate in America with great success (Martin, p. 316).

THE MILNER GROUP

A key component element in the Fabian project, in addition to ideology and funding, was social and political connections. Indeed, the Fabian Society's extraordinary influence cannot be properly understood without reference to the extensive network of organizations of which it was a part.

A prominent position in this network was held by the infamous Milner Group which became a parallel organization to the Fabian Society. The Group began as a small yet highly-influential secret society set up in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner and Nathan Rothschild, and bankrolled by the Rhodes Trust, the Beit Trust, the Astors and various powerful banks like Lazard Brothers & Co (Quigley, 1981, pp. 3-7). It also had very close relationships with associates of the Anglo-American banking house J. P. Morgan & Co., the Carnegie Trust and other members of America's East Coast Establishment (Quigley, 1981, p. 183).

Although ostensibly supportive of the Empire, Milner was pro-Marxist and believed in a "noble Socialism" (Sutton, 1974, pp. 89, 93; Quigley, 1981, p. 68; Semmel, pp. 184-5 ff.). He and his group derived much of their ideology from Arnold Toynbee's Socialist style theories of social reform and their policies - like self-government for the colonies - eventually led to the dissolution of the Empire (Quigley, 1981, pp. 6 ff.).

While the Fabians dominated the Labour movement, the Milner Group operated mainly in Liberal and Conservative circles. However, the two organizations maintained close links with each other.

Milner-Fabian connections dated back to the years before the actual establishment of the Milner Group, in particular, through newspapers serving as mouthpieces for financial interests. In the same way Karl Marx and his Communist group revolved round the Liberal journal Rheinische Zeitung of Cologne, the Milner-Fabian combine was connected with the Liberal Pall Mall Gazette of London. From 1881, Milner had been writing for the Gazette where he established personal relationships with the editors, John Morley (later Lord) and William Thomas Stead (Quigley, 1981, p. 11). Bernard Shaw himself worked for the Gazette from 1883 into the early 1890s (Pugh, p. 48), after it had been taken over by William Waldorf (later first Lord) Astor. In other words, Shaw started his career as an employee ofthe Milner Group.

Another dubious character with media background was Hubert Bland, a former bank employee and failed-businessman-become journalist, whom Margaret Cole described as "a sound Socialist but otherwise a Tory". A member of Davidson's original group, Bland was one of the Fabian Society's founders and it was apparently he who had recruited his friend Shaw (Pugh, p. 7), who then recruited Annie Besant and other leading figures (M. Cole, p. 8). In addition to being a member of the Fabian Executive, Bland was also the Society's long-serving treasurer although, as observed by Cole, he had little to do with accounts apart from signing the necessary cheques (M. Cole, p. 56). From 1889, Bland worked for the Sunday Chronicle, which was owned by newspaper magnate Edward Hulton, formerly of the liberal Manchester Guardian. This would appear to connect the Fabian Project with the shadowy world of Manchester's industrialists and publishers, where Karl Marx's sponsor Friedrich Engels (who wrote for the Guardian in the 1860s) was at home before permanently moving to London. Manchester at the time was a hotbed of left-wing radicalism.

We may note in this connection that one of the Fabians' financial backers was John Passmore Edwards (see below). In the early 1840s, Edwards worked for the Sentinel in Manchester where he became a follower of the " Manchester School", a Liberal movement advocating free trade and international peace, spearheaded by textile manufacturers Richard Cobden and John Bright. Cobden, who also held substantial railway interests in America, was a founder of the Anglo-American Peace Society. Passmore Edwards accompanied Cobden to international conferences in Brussels (the headquarters of Karl Marx's Communist League) and other European capitals, and organized meetings for the Society's League of Universal Brotherhood.

Together with fellow Liberal Samuel Storey, Passmore Edwards became partner of Andrew Carnegie in the newspaper business in the early 1880s, that is, precisely at the time of the Fabian Society's founding (Passmore Edwards, 1905). A prominent journalist himself, Scottish-born Carnegie vented his radical and anti-monarchist views in his Triumphant Democracy (1886), followed in 1889 by the essay "Wealth" in which he took the Fabian line that his own vision of the world differed from that of Communism only in that it required "evolution of existing conditions" as opposed to total overthrow of civilization. The essay was published in the North American Review in June and reprinted as "The Gospel of Wealth" in the Milner-Fabian Pall Mall Gazette. It may be added that Pall Mall Gazette editor John Morley had served as editor of Cobden's Morning Star in the late 1860s.

Another Fabian link to Cobden's Manchester School was Harold Cox, a member of the Fabian Society who was a follower of Manchester Liberalism and served as secretary of the Cobden Club and editor of the influential quarterly Edinburgh Review, as well as being a collaborator of Sidney Webb (B. Webb, p. 502).

Thus, in addition to the Fabian leadership's well-documented later links to the international money power, we can establish links between the latter and the genesis of the Fabian Society. In particular, it must be noted that both the Milner Group and the Fabian Society came into being at a time of unprecedented centralization of industry and finance in the hands of precisely those interests (Carnegie, Morgan, Astor, Rockefeller) which (along with Tata, Rowntree, Cadbury, Oppenheimer et al.) came to bankroll the two organizations and their projects. The pivotal role played by key elements of the Milner-Fabian Conspiracy in the centralization and monopolization of power on both sides of the Atlantic indicates that leading liberal industrialists were not only willing converts to Fabianism but its covert instigators.

In other words, we are dealing with a small group of international industrialists who opposed the existing order particularly the monarchy -because they believed that all power should be in their own hands by virtue of their ability to amass wealth for themselves. To achieve their objective, they used slogans like "free trade'', "world peace'', ''universal brotherhood", "philanthropy" and other propagandistic soundbites purporting to advance the "public good", while in reality serving the group's monopolistic agenda. These liberal industrialists were joined in their conspiracy by the Rothschilds of both London and Paris who campaigned for free trade throughout the second half of the 19th century (Ferguson, 2000, vol. 2., p. 419). The Rothschilds' first port of call in England was Manchester, where Nathan Meyer started his career in the textile trade in the late 1700s. Their Whig and later Liberal inclinations as well as cotton interests linked them with Manchester's cotton and textile magnates who were behind radical movements like the Manchester School as well as with textile manufacturer Friedrich Engels himself. It was at Chetham's Library, on Manchester's Long Millgate, that Engels and Marx -skulking behind a stained-glass window -plotted their conspiracy in the early 1840s before going off to Europe and then back to England, to sow the seeds of revolution.

Like Marxism, Manchester Liberalism was a fraudulent project. Its proponents

• aimed to lower the cost of living so they could pay lower wages;

• claimed to support "free trade" while creating organizations to supervise and control trade;

• ostensibly supported "world peace" while being prepared to wage war against all nations that disagreed with them (see Shaw, below), later setting up a league to enforce peace through war; and cynically called for "universal brotherhood" as a cover for Anglo-American reunion in the interests of international industry and finance.

These "Pharisees of politics" (as Marx ungratefully called them after lifting their theory of value), became the left wing of the British Liberal Party and spawned the Milner Group and the Fabian Society.

Connections between the Milner Group and the Fabian Society

Milner-Fabian connections were in evidence early on: in 1885 Fabians attended a conference in London (funded by an Edinburgh industrialist) at which Scottish-born Arthur Balfour, future President of the Local Government Board, praised Marx (Cole, p. 8).

In 1887 radical Liberal Stead, who soon became a co-founder of the Milner Group with "Conservative" Lord Rothschild, together with Annie Besant of the Fabian Executive, founded the Law and Liberty League which was affiliated to the Fabian Society in the same year (Pugh, p. 17).

In 1890, Stead started the Review of Reviews, which became the Milner Group organ (Quigley, 1981, p. 39). Milner Group leaders like Balfour and Waldorf and Nancy Astor were close friends of the Fabian leadership. The Shaws, the Webbs, the Balfours, Cecil Rhodes, Lord Grey and Lord Milner were frequent guests at places like Cliveden and Tring Park (the Astor and Rothschild estates). Key figures like Philip Noel-Baker, Arthur Salter and Walter Lippmann were members of both the Milner Group and the Fabian Society.

As we shall presently show, the two groups collaborated on many projects and continue to do so. Significantly, the Milner Group's left-wing policies played into the hands of the Fabians who infiltrated and largely took over the Milner Group's international framework of influence. The activities of the Milner Group will be dealt with in more detail in chapters 4 (The Council on Foreign Relations) and 5 (Chatham House).

THE RAINBOW CIRCLE AND THE COEFFICIENTS

Other important though little-known organizations associated with the Fabian Society and the Milner Group were the Rainbow Circle and the " Coefficients". The Rainbow Circle, named after the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street, London, was set up in 1893 to promote social, political and industrial reform in collaboration with the Liberals and the Social Democratic Federation. Its early members included Charles Trevelyan, Herbert Samuel, J. A. Hobson, Sydney Olivier and Ramsay MacDonald.

Similarly, in 1902 the Fabians started the Coefficients dining club -named in allusion to the progressive elites' fashionable preoccupation with "efficiency" - which was attended by influential figures from the Conservative and Liberal Parties, such as Edward Grey (Foreign Secretary), Richard Haldane (Privy Counsellor, later Secretary of State for War and Lord Chancellor), Leo Amery (Secretary of State for India and Burma) and Alfred Milner (businessman and banker, later member of Lloyd George's War Cabinet) himself (Quigley, 1981, pp. 137-8; cf. Dahrendorf, pp. 75-80 and M. Cole, p. 118).

"EDUCATE, AGITATE, ORGANIZE": FABIANISM AND EDUCATION

Even before it came to dominate politics, the strongest influence exerted by Fabianism had been on education. Already in 1885, the Fabians put the slogan "Educate, Agitate, Organize" in circulation. By 1889, they had declared the aim of Fabian educational reform as entailing the creation of a Minister for Education, with "control over the whole educational system, from the elementary school to the University, and over all educational endowments" (Shaw, "Educational Reform", 1889).

Indeed, within a short time, the Fabians succeeded in bringing the entire education system under their control through the infiltration and domination of existing educational institutions and the creation of new ones; through legislative measures introduced by established political parties under Fabian influence, etc.

Right from the start, they infiltrated the London School Board (LSB), the London County Council (LCC) and similar official bodies. They also established an extensive network of Fabian University Societies, the most influential being the one in the University of Oxford, formed in 1895. According to the Fabian Society's Annual Report, it consisted of men who within a few years would occupy posts of influence and importance across the country. The Cambridge University Fabian Society was established in 1906 and similar societies were operating in the Universities of Glasgow, Aberystwyth and others (Pease, pp. 79, 143).

London School of Economics

Another influential Fabian project in the field of education which may be regarded as one of the world's most malignant and destructive instruments of mass indoctrination, manipulation and control - was the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Using moneys bequeathed by the Fabian Henry Hunt Hutchinson to Fabian Society leaders for the purpose of "furthering its propaganda, objects and Socialism", Sidney Webb in 1895 founded the School with the express intention to "teach political economy on more modem and more socialist lines than those on which it had been taught hitherto". By July 1896, the LSE already had 281 students. Ten years later, their numbers rose to 1,500, over half of whom conveniently consisted of employees of railway companies like Richard Potter's (Beatrice Webb's father) Great Western. Further funds provided by newspaper owner John Passmore Edwards, the Fabian-controlled LCC and its Technical Education Board (TEB, whose founder and chairman Sidney Webb was able to siphon off funds to the school) as well as the University of London enabled the LSE to become a centre of Socialist indoctrination of worldwide influence.

Among LSE's early teachers were Graham Wallas, Bertrand Russell, Clement Attlee and the notorious Marxist Harold Laski.

Its better-known students included Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. and his brother and future President John F. Kennedy (1933-35), followed by David Rockefeller (1937-38). The latter had earlier written a sympathetic thesis on Fabian Socialism at Harvard, while his family provided sizable grants to the LSE through the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial and the Rockefeller Foundation (Rockefeller, pp. 75, 81). Tellingly, all three millionaire's sons studied under Laski (though JFK had to interrupt his year due to illness) as well as at Harvard, America's equivalent to the LSE suitably located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and staffed with eminent Fabian professors like Graham Wallas and Laski himself.

Another academic eminence at Harvard was the Austrian economist Joseph A. Schumpeter, a Fabian masquerading as liberal democrat, under whom Rockefeller had the honour of being drilled in the arcane arts of leftist economics (Rockefeller, p. 79) before making Laski's acquaintance at LSE.

Significantly, Laski in 1939 was promoted to the Labour Party Executive, becoming its Chairman in 1945 (precisely when Labour came to power), and being appointed Chairman of the Fabian Society itself in the following year. This provides a classic illustration of Fabians coming to occupy positions of influence and importance exactly as predicted by Fabian writings. Not less significant, however, is what Fabian writings tend to be silent about, namely that Laski was a beneficiary of Rockefeller funding and that Labour's Fabian Socialist regime of 1945-50 (as well as its successor under Harold Wilson, another Fabian with LSE connections) was bankrolled by Rockefeller's Council on Foreign Relations through the Marshall Aid programme and other thinly-veiled Socialist schemes bent on the reconstruction or (to paraphrase Schumpeter) "creative destruction" of Europe, America and the World according to Milner-Fabian designs (see pp. 504-5).

Taking over the secondary education system

Even non-Fabian outfits like the Workers' Educational Association, an influential organization with international branches established in 1903 by Alfred Mansbridge, were soon heavily colonized by Fabians like George D. H. Cole, R.H. Tawney, Lord Lindsay of Birker, J. J. Mallon and many others (M. Cole, p. 186, n. 1). The same procedure was applied to the London School Board (LSB) where LSE lecturer Graham Wallas headed the School Management Committee, and on which many Fabians sat (M. Cole, pp. 102-3; Martin, p. 23).

On the abolition of the LSB in 1904, the London County Council (LCC) became the local education authority responsible for elementary and secondary schools. Like the LSB, the LCC, too, came under heavy Fabian influence from the outset. Among its early leaders were Sidney Webb himself who as Chairman of the Technical Instruction Committee (which he reorganized into the TEB) was known as "Minister for Public Education", Will Crooks as Chairman of the Public Control Committee, Barbara Drake (Beatrice Webb's niece) as alderman, etc.

More generally, domination of the LCC was ensured first through Progressives (Liberals) and Municipal Reformers (Conservatives) and later through the Fabian-controlled Labour Party itself, especially from 1934 when Labour took control of the LCC which it retained until its abolition in 1965.

The LSB and LCC became some of the Fabians' principal instruments, though by no means the only ones, for far-reaching education reform along Socialist lines. The foundations of the modem system of public education were laid through the Education Acts of 1902 and 1903, which in turn were based on the Fabian publication Tract No. 106, "The Education Muddle and the Way Out" (Jan. 1901). With Beatrice Webb's old friend Sir Arthur (later Lord) Balfour as Prime Minister, the Webbs' friend Robert Morant on the Board of Education (Permanent Secretary from 1903), Sir John Gorst as Vice-President of the Committee on Education and Sidney Webb as "Minister of Public Education" for London, the Fabians were able to enforce their reforms to the letter (M. Cole, p. 105).

As "Minister for Public Education", Sidney Webb was also responsible in 1898 for the reorganization of the University of London into a federation of teaching institutions of which his LSE became a Faculty of Economics in 1900. As admitted by Fabian Society honorary secretary and chairman, Margaret Cole, the reform of public education provided "the most classical example of 'Fabian', 'permeative' tactics in successful operation" (M. Cole, p. 102).

Fabians and Rothschilds

The fact that the negotiations on London University's reorganization were presided over by Nathan ("Natty") Rothschild, the "Conservative" eminence grise of the time (Haldane, Memoirs, in Wilson, p. 306) who funded and served as third president of the LSE (B. Webb, p. 182), is also a classic example of active collaboration between the Fabian Society and financial interests.

The Fabians were also connected with the Rothschilds through Balfour, who worked closely with his friend Natty Rothschild while Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905 (Ferguson, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 417-8) and through Natty's relative Lord Rosebery, who served as second LSE president. Indeed, as both the Fabian Society and the Rothschilds continued to act as advisers to British governments, their influence, both jointly and separately, on government policy must be beyond dispute.

It may be noted that, in addition to LSE, another classic example of close collaboration between Fabians and financial interests at this time is provided by Imperial College London, set up by Sidney Webb with funds from Wernher, Beit & Co. (the gold and diamond mining company).

Fabian Infiltration Goals

The purpose of this Fabian permeation was accurately described by Beatrice Webb in her diary, where she reviewed the Society's achievements. Thus, she noted that their book Industrial Democracy had been "extraordinarily well received". Indeed, volume 1 of the 1897 book was translated into Russian by Lenin and his secretary later wife Krupskaya in February-August 1898 for his fellow Russian Socialists and in the same year, Lenin and his wife edited the Russian translation of vol. 2. Webb also noted that their party had recovered a good working majority on the LCC and that the London School of Economics was stealthily establishing itself as the English school of economics and political science.

Beatrice Webb concluded that thanks to the activities of the Fabian Society, the LSE, the LCC Progressives, and the influence of Fabian books, no young man or woman who wanted to study or work in public affairs could fail to come under Fabian influence (M. Cole, pp. 85-88). The ultimate object of all this, of course, was the conversion of Britain to Socialism and establishment of Fabian rule, not through working-class pressure but by means of an elite.

As Shaw himself put it, Socialism would come by instalments of public regulation and public administration enacted by parliaments, vestries, municipalities, parish councils, school boards, etc. (Tsuzuki, p. 119).

In order to ensure that no section of society could slip through the Fabian net, the Fabians also set up a network of groups including

• the "Fabian Nursery", for Fabians under 28 and, later, the Young Fabians;

• the Lyceum Group, for Fabian women to discuss the training of children;

• the Women's Group, to infiltrate and manipulate the women's rights movement;

• the Haldane Society, an organization for lawyers named for the Fabian lawyer and politician Viscount Richard B. Haldane, which, among other worthy causes was studying nationalization;

• and a Socialist Medical League.

The Fabian obsession with control and manipulation of all aspects of life led to the creation of a special "Committee on Taste" responsible for such details like the lay-out, typography and design of Fabian publications (M. Cole, p. 126; Britain, p. 167).

REINVENTING CULTURE: THE FABIAN NEW AGE

The Fabians' stated aim to "remould" and "reconstruct" society

from its foundations inevitably involved the total reinvention of culture. The Fabian view was that culture had to be "modified" to accommodate itself to progressive conditions, i.e., to Socialism (Wollheim, p. 18) and the Fabians were careful not to leave anything to chance.

Using art to promote socialism

One of the earliest Fabian artists of note was William Morris, who believed in embellishing social reform with art, poetry and other cultural adornments (Martin, p. 136). Morris was the instigator of the Arts and Crafts Movement and founder, in 1891, of the Kelmscott Press.

Following in Morris's footsteps, Sidney Webb, who was serving on the London County Council's Technical Education Board, surrounded himself with Morris's disciples and instigated the creation in 1896 of the Central School of Arts and Crafts headed by William R. Lethaby and George Frampton (whom he had earlier appointed to his TEB) and generally staffed by members of the Morris-influenced Art Workers Guild. Architects from the same fraternity were employed by the LCC to design both its housing estates and Webb's London School of Economics, which it also financed. Webb's admiration for the functional architecture of the Soviet Union did not fail to influence later developments in that field.

In 1899, the Fabians founded the Stage Society for the production of plays serving the Fabian agenda, including plays by Shaw. In 1905, the Fabians George Holbrook Jackson and Alfred Richard Orage set up the Leeds Arts Club with the object "to affirm the mutual dependence of art and ideas". The experiment being successful, Jackson in 1906 suggested the formation of groups that would exploit art, philosophy, science and politics for the advancement of Socialism (Jackson, 1906).

Early in the following year, the Society set up a Fabian Arts Group in London, headed by Jackson, Orage and Eric Gill. Its object was "to interpret the relation of Art and Philosophy to Socialism" and "to make an appeal to minds that remained unmoved by the ordinary Fabian attitude" and Shaw himself presided over the first meeting (Henderson, p. 175; Britain, p. 170).

In the same year (1907) Orage and Jackson, with financial assistance from Shaw, bought up the influential Socialist magazine The New Age and re-oriented it along Fabian lines with regular contributions by leading Fabian ideologists like Shaw himself, Cole and H. G. Wells.

Destruction of Art

While Morris and his early disciples had hijacked traditional style for Socialism, the new generation of Fabian artists sought to do away with artistic tradition altogether, promoting the Modernist Movement which subverted traditional values in favour of "progressive" concepts of social and sexual "freedom". Shaw himself regarded it as "good statesmanship" to blow every cathedral in the world to pieces with dynamite without concern about opposition from art critics or "cultural voluptuaries" (Britain, p. 108).

Behind the widely acknowledged talent of some Fabian artists lurked the dark secrets of their deviant instincts. The all-pervading Fabian hold on society meant that the works of artists like Gill, a habitual practitioner of pedophilia, incest and bestiality (MacCarthy, 1989) made their way into "respectable" institutions like the London Electric Railway (later London Transport), the BBC, the League of Nations and even Westminster Cathedral. (The Fabian Left's advocacy of "liberty" led to the formation of pedophile networks like the notorious Pedophile Information Exchange.)

The Fabians have infiltrated almost all key cultural institutions

Although the Arts Group was dissolved after a few years, Orage remained editor of The New Age until 1922 and its work was carried on through lectures given by prominent figures from the Fabian Summer Schools and other projects. Noted Fabians infiltrated virtually all the key cultural institutions.

For example, Shaw was on the council of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, while Walter Crane joined the Royal Society of Arts. Shaw and other Fabians infiltrated the Society of Authors and created the League of Dramatists as part of the society, etc. Among later Fabian cultural projects was the Festival of Britain, set up by Labour Party Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison (grandfather of Peter Mandelson), in 1951 in London. As with other Fabian projects, the Festival promoted a modernist twist on architecture, interior and product design, etc., in the 1950s.

In short, by the early 1900s, the Fabians achieved an unprecedented degree of influence on society and culture through their propagandistic publications such as Fabian Essays and Fabian Tracts, Shaw's formidable arsenal of political plays and the works of scores of influential novelists, poets, playwrights, publicists and artists, all systematically planting subversive ideas in the minds of both the masses and the trend-setting elites, as a means of establishing a subtle control not only over what people did, but also over the way they thought and felt.

As Wells put it in his Old Worlds for New, ''unless you can change men's minds you cannot effect socialism". This, once again, exposes Socialism as an artificial project imposed on society by a self-interested elite.

FABIANISM AND FAITH: PREACHING THE GOSPELS OF ATHEISM AND FALSE RELIGION

As religion played an important role in people's life, it inevitably became a key tool for systematic mind-control in the hands of the Fabian masterminds. In an unfinished work, Shaw wrote that the Fabians "must make a religion of Socialism" (Henderson, p. 488).

The fact is that right from the start the Fabians' aim had been to make religion more Socialist and use it for Fabian agendas. Early Fabian Philip Wicksteed, a well-known Unitarian minister and theologian, converted John Trevor to Christian Socialism and in 1891 the latter founded the Labour Church (later Socialist Church) movement. The new church interpreted the Kingdom of God, the ideal Christian society, as a society controlled by a secular (or atheistic) Socialist state. In a blatant perversion of Christian teachings, this "Church" managed to change the motto "God is our King" to "Let labour be the basis of civil society". It had over 50 branches nationwide and enjoyed the active support of noted Fabians like Philip Snowden, Edward Carpenter, Keir Hardie and R. H. Tawney.

In 1906, George Lansbury, another leading Fabian who wrote that Socialism was the "only outward expression of a Christian's faith'', founded the Christian Socialist League with Dr John Clifford as one of its leaders. In 1909, the radical Methodist group Sigma Society was founded by Arthur Henderson who became an official member of the Fabian Society in 1912. In 1930, the Fabians founded the Christian Socialist Crusade, with Lansbury as President, for the declared purpose of promoting "Christian" Socialism among the public. In 1936 they founded the Socialist Christian League which had members like R. H. Tawney and pledged to "strive for the creation of an international socialist order based on the communal control of the means of life" (Laidler, p. 730).

Also in the 1930s, the Fabians set up the "Christian Book Club" which was headed by leading Fabian Victor Golancz. With Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean of Canterbury", as general editor, the club recommended for its Christian readers the Webbs' Soviet Communism: A New Civilization (1935) (Martin, pp. 54-5). In 1942, they founded the Council of Clergy and Ministers for Common Ownership (CCMCO), which was led by Alfred Blunt (the Bishop of Bradford), Hewlett Johnson (the "Red Dean") and Ronald Ramsay (the Bishop of Malmesbury).

In 1960, the Socialist Christian League (SCL) joined the Society of Socialist Clergy and Ministers to form the Christian Socialist Movement. Fabian godfather R. H. Tawney attended the inaugural meeting, Methodist preacher and SCL graduate Donald Soper was one of the new movement's leaders and its members pledged themselves to following the same agenda as the SCL. The movement, which is affiliated to the Labour Party, has had leading Fabians like Harold Wilson and Tony Blair among its members, and continues to work for the establishment of a "fair society" along Socialist lines.

In addition to this massive infiltration of all Christian denominations and their conversion into Fabian instruments of subversion, the Fabians were equally busy infiltrating secular organizations like the National Secular Society, in whose weekly paper "National Reformer" Shaw published articles on Marx's Das Kapital (Henderson, p. 160).

What Fabians really thought of Christianity, might be gathered from the writings of leading figures like Annie Besant who declared that the Westminster Abbey was to be "re-consecrated to humanity" and have its "barbaric psalms" replaced with the "majestic music of Wagner and Beethoven" (Besant, An Autobiography). Typical Fabian writings on religion included those of noted Fabians like Stewart D. Headlam (Christian Socialism; a lecture, 1892), combining Christianity with land nationalization and Percy Dearmer (Socialism and Christianity, 1907), quoting with approval his mentor F. D. Maurice's claim that "Socialism is the necessary result of sound Christianity". Keir Hardie's belief that "Socialism is the modem word for Christianity" pretty much represents the general Fabian thought.

Leading Fabians like Annie Besant, A. R. Orage and Clement Attlee also infiltrated Masonic lodges (Besant set up her own lodge) and the "alternative" movements of the time such as "Theosophy" and Gurdjieffs "Fourth Way".

FABIANISM AND GOVERNMENT: THE LIB-LAB CONSPIRACY AND THE LABOUR PARTY

As we saw earlier, the Fabian Society had been close to the Liberal camp from inception. Indeed, as conceded by Margaret Cole, with the exception of "Socialist Tory" Hubert Bland, all Fabians were "born Liberals". Some Liberals, such as David George Ritchie and Stewart Headlam, were members of the Fabian Society. Conversely, some Fabians stood in parliamentary elections as Liberals ("Liberal-Labour").

The Fabians create their own party and take control of the labor movement

While the Fabians' masquerading as Liberals had the advantage of enabling them to influence politics through the Liberal Party, this tactic meant that they were unable to push through agendas that digressed too far from standard Liberal policy. Even left-wing Liberals could hardly have been persuaded to pass measures that were too obviously, or too radically, Socialist. Therefore, to achieve their aim of making Britain Socialist the Fabians had to set up a political party exclusively dedicated to Socialism.

The creation of a Socialist party had long been advocated by Fabian founder Hubert Bland. But, as a private association, the Fabian Society -like the Milner Group -was reluctant to expose itself to public scrutiny and did not wish to become a political party itself. Its leaders, particularly the Webbs, preferred to stay in the background, "pulling wires of different thickness connected with different persons and differing groups" (M. Cole, p. 83).

The only solution was to form a separate organization. This organization, however, could not be overtly Fabian. The Fabians were almost exclusively middle class. Together with their tactic of "permeating" other bodies, this did not make them exactly popular with upright working-class people who were the true labour movement.

Therefore, in 1893, the Fabians created the National Independent Labour Party (ILP, the basis of the future Labour Party) which aimed "to secure the collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange" and was little more than a federation of local Fabian societies led by Fabians Keir Hardie and Ramsay MacDonald. The former had earlier co-founded the Scottish Labour Party with R. Cunninghame Graham who went on to serve as president of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Apart from shielding the Fabian Society from public scrutiny, the ILP fulfilled the function of infiltrating the trade union movement and herding it in a Fabian Socialist direction (Pugh, p. 47).

The main target was the influential Trades Union Congress (TUC) which the Fabian leadership intended to use for funding Socialist (and, above all, Fabian) Members of Parliament. According to Bernard Shaw's calculations, if every union member gave a penny a week, 300,000 could be raised to support 50 MPs (Pugh, p. 48).

Trade union funding for the Labour Party is an arrangement which has remained unchanged to date. The TUC, in particular, which counts many a Fabian among its members, is a major donor to Labour. As the "brain-workers" of the party, however, the Fabians, then as now, remained in control of party policy.

Having won the TUC over to their side, the Fabians next suggested the formation of a Labour Representation Committee (LRC) which was established in 1900. Organized by Shaw and E. R. Pease, the Committee consisted of representatives from the TUC, SDF, ILP and the Fabian Society, had Ramsay MacDonald as General Secretary, and became the basis of the present Labour Party.

It should be noted that, in 1900, MacDonald resigned from the Fabian Society over its support for the Boer War which he opposed. However, the Society actually preferred to work with collaborators not officially associated with it. Moreover, as often the case with former Society members, MacDonald remained faithful to Fabian principles and as leader of the Labour Party obediently collaborated with the Fabian leadership.

Although initially lacking a public (overt) programme, the electorate was left in no doubt as to the new party's political intentions. Moreover, on the insistence of the Marxist SDF, at its 1905 annual conference the LRC showed its true colours by declaring as its ultimate object "the overthrow of the present competitive system of capitalism and the institution of a system of public ownership of all the means of production, distribution and exchange".

Fabians use Liberal Party to infiltrate Parliament

In spite of being a separate party, the LRC (later Labour Party) found it expedient not to sever its connections with the Liberal Party and the latter remained a useful tool for furthering the LRC's career. Indeed, Labour's advances would have been quite unthinkable without Liberal collaboration. In the infamous anti-Conservative Gladstone-MacDonald Pact of 1903, the Liberals' Herbert Gladstone reached a secret agreement with MacDonald to allow LRC candidates to stand instead of Liberals in some constituencies in the general election so as not to split the anti-Conservative vote. Interestingly, the pact was made not long after the Fabians had set up their Coefficients Club for the purpose of liaising with Liberals and other political leaders. The result of the pact was that in the 1906 general elections twenty-nine Labour MPs (four of them Fabian Society members) were returned to the House of Commons, providing the Labour Party for the first time with a parliamentary foundation. Three Fabians were successful as Liberals (Pease, p. 115).

Soon after the elections, the LRC was renamed "The Labour Party". Like the Fabian Society, the Labour Party was of course a Socialist party. The fact that it called itself "Labour" and not "Socialist" was part of the Fabians' general strategy of taking over power as discreetly as possible. It helped channel organized labour in a Fabian Socialist direction, while concealing from the electorate the new party's Socialist agenda (cf. Martin, p. 38). To this day, many Labour supporters are unaware that the party they are voting for is a Socialist party aiming to establish Socialism with all its implications.

As always, the Fabian Society leaders were the masterminds operating behind the scenes. The tactics, strategy and political attack of the new Labour Party were dictated by the Fabian Society (Pugh, p. 71), who produced a tract instructing the party to attack Capitalism, declaring that "The Labour Party is a party against the Landlord and the Capitalist" and that "every Labour member sent to parliament is one more nail driven into the coffin of the Capitalist system" (Socialism and the Labour Party, Tract No. 127, May 1906, pp. 3, 15).

The very notion of abolishing Capitalism, of course, was nonsense. Humans had always engaged in the exchange of goods or trade. Suppressing such activities amounted to dehumanizing life. Abolishing exploitation and monopolistic manifestations of Capitalism was one thing. Abolishing Capitalism was another. If deviant capitalist practices warranted the abolition of Capitalism, then aberrant aspects of Socialism, too, warranted the abolition of Socialism. But Socialism does not apply its own logic when it is inconvenient to itself -which once again exposes its fraudulent character. Moreover, the Socialists never proposed the abolition of the industries that in their view defined Capitalism, but their monopolization by the Socialist State, which was to be run by the Socialist Labour Party and the Fabian leadership behind it. In other words, the Fabian aim was to replace monopolistic Capitalism with monopolistic Socialism for the profit of the Fabian leadership and its Liberal Capitalist collaborators and sponsors.

Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb, in particular, were the string pullers, ever on the lookout for ways of acquiring political power for themselves. There can be no doubt that the successful establishment of Socialism in Britain (which was the express aim of the Fabian Society) would inevitably have resulted in the assumption of power by a Socialist regime controlled by the Fabian leadership itself.

Significantly, the Fabian Society consciously compared itself to the Milner Group's British South Africa Company (BSAC). Thus, in 1897, the Fabian Executive had announced that like the "Chartered Company" in Africa, the Fabian Society will capture and control the British natives "for its profit and their own good" (Fabian News, Sept. 1897, quoted by Pugh, p. 58). The "Chartered Company" was Milner Group founder Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company (BSAC) which had received its royal charter in 1889.

The Fabian Society takes control of government policy

To grasp the extent of Fabian domination in Britain's Labour and Socialist movement we only need to follow the development of the new "Labour" party.

Initially, the Fabian Society had been barely tolerated on the Labour Representation Committee, forcing it to place only one member (Pease) on the LRC Executive and being in constant danger of expulsion (Pugh, p. 69). However, ex-member MacDonald was General Secretary and, following the 1906 election, Keir Hardie was elected Chairman (in effect, Leader) of the party in Parliament (Parliamentary Labour Party or PLP). MacDonald and his personal aid Arthur Henderson (who was soon to join the Society) were Whips. Fabian Society General Secretary Pease himself, who had been on the LRC Executive, kept his seat on the Labour Party Executive. As pointed out by M. Cole, his influence was not inconsiderable (M. Cole, p. 90).

A week after the election results, the Fabian Society assembled a committee consisting of Shaw, Pease and other leading Fabians to produce a document (Tract No. 127) laying down a Socialist policy for the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) (Pugh, pp. 70-71). From that point, both the Labour Party and Fabian influence experienced a rapid growth. In the 1910 general election, with MacDonald still as General Secretary and Keir Hardie as PLP Chairman, Labour managed to get 40 MPs elected.

In 1913, Beatrice Webb wrote that the Fabian Society and the Independent Labour Party were well on the way to "controlling the policy" of the Labour and Socialist movement (M. Cole, p. 167). In fact, the Fabian Society and the Labour Party were well on the way to controlling the policy of much of the country.

In 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, the Fabian Charles W. Bowerman of the TUC and Labour Party General Secretary Arthur Henderson (who had joined the Fabian Society in 1912) established the War Emergency Workers National Committee with Henderson as Chairman and Fabian J. S. Middleton as Secretary. The purpose of the Committee was to get the influential trade unions and through them, the whole Labour and Socialist movement, to follow the Fabian line in regard of war policies.

In 1915, under Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, the Fabian Henderson became the first Labour Party member to join the Cabinet, serving as President of the Board of Education. In 1916, under Liberal PM Lloyd George, Henderson became Minister without Portfolio and was joined by fellow Fabian George Nicoll Barnes as Minister of Pensions and John Hodge as Minister of Labour. By 1922, Labour had won 142 seats in the House of Commons, becoming the second largest political party.

The Labour Party is essentially a Fabian Party

As admitted by Pease, the Labour Party was "virtually, if not formally", Fabian in its political policy (Pease, p. 73). Indeed, with Fabian Henderson as General Secretary, Fabian mastermind Sidney Webb on the Executive and its constitution, manifesto and party policy all written by the two, the Labour Party was a Fabian Party.

In January 1924, following the 1923 general elections and under Fabian General Secretary Henderson, the Labour Party was able to form the first Labour government in Britain's history with the help of Liberal leader Herbert Asquith. As Prime Minister, MacDonald appointed leading Fabians and Fabian collaborators to his government. The cabinet itself consisted of the following Fabians:

• Sidney Webb (President of the Board of Trade),

• Sydney Olivier (India Secretary),

• Arthur Henderson (Home Secretary),

• Charles Trevelyan (President of the Board of Education),

• Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer),

• Lord Parmoor (Lord President of the Council),

• Lord Noel-Buxton (Agriculture Minister),

• Lord Thomson (Secretary for Air),

• Ramsay MacDonald (Foreign Secretary),

• Arthur Ponsonby (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), the Webbs' personal friend,

• Lord Haldane (Lord Chancellor) who joined the Society in the following year;

• and Fabian collaborator J. R. Clynes (Lord Privy Seal).

The government also included the Fabians Clement Attlee, Percy Alden, Arthur Greenwood, William Graham and James Stewart in minor posts and other Fabians as Parliamentary private secretaries.

The 1924 Labour government depended for its majority on the Liberals and did not last long. But Labour was back in power five years later, in 1929, again with Liberal support (with 216, Labour only had 6 seats more than the Conservatives and depended on the Liberal's 48). Henderson was still General Secretary. MacDonald became Prime Minister once again and, as before, appointed the usual Fabian fraternity to his government. His cabinet included the following Fabians:

• Lord Passfield a.k.a. Sidney Webb (Colonial and Dominions Secretary),

• Arthur Henderson (Foreign Secretary),

• Sir Charles Trevelyan (President of the Board of Education),

• Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer),

• Lord Parmoor (Lord President of the Council),

• Lord Noel-Buxton (Agriculture Minister),

• Lord Thomson (Minister for Air),

• Ramsay MacDonald (First Lord of the Treasury),

• Arthur Greenwood (Health Minister),

• William Graham (President of the Board of Trade),

• George Lansbury (First Commissioner of Works),

• Margaret Bondfield (Labour Minister).

Further posts were taken by the Fabianized J. R Clynes (Home Minister) and others.

Fabian collaborators in the Liberal and Conservative parties

It may be noted that the Liberals who helped Labour in its career were close to both the Milner Group and the Fabian Society. Herbert Gladstone was the son of former Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, who had been a member of the so-called Cecil Bloc which spawned the Milner Group (Quigley, 1981, p. 30). Herbert (later Lord) Asquith was close to the Milner Group as well as a close friend of Bernard Shaw and a familiar guest at the Webbs' dinner table (Quigley, 1981, p. 30; B. Webb, p. 109 in Pugh, p. 47). Interestingly, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in 1940 invited Labour to join his government, appointing former Fabian Society Chairman Clement Attlee his deputy, was not only a former Liberal but had close links to the Milner Group and its Anglo-American associates as well as to Fabian leaders (see Ch. 7, pp. 246 ft). Churchill's Wa.r Cabinet included leading Fabians like Attlee, Hugh Dalton, Arthur Greenwood and Herbert Morrison, opened the doors to systematic Fabian infiltration of government (Martin, p. 65) and enabled the Labour Party (the Fabian Society's front organization) to take over in 1945.

Under Fabian General Secretary Morgan Phillips, Labour (out of whose 393 elected MPs 229 were Fabian Society members) formed a majority government which included the Fabians:

• Prime Minister Clement Attlee (First Lord of the Treasury and Defence Minister),

• Lord Jowitt (Lord Chancellor),

• Herbert Morrison (Lord President of the Council),

• Arthur Greenwood (Lord Privy Seal),

• Hugh Dalton (Chancellor of the Exchequer),

• Beatrice Webb's nephew Sir Stafford Cripps (President of the Board of Trade),

• Tom Williams (Agriculture Minister),

• John Strachey (Under-Secretary for Air),

• Lord Peckenham (Civil Aviation Minister),

• Arthur Creech Jones (Colonial Secretary),

• Lord Addison (Dominions and Commonwealth Secretary),

• Lord Pethick-Lawrence followed by Lord Listowel (India and Burma Secretary),

• Ellen Wilkinson (Education Minister)

• and Emanuel Shinwell (Fuel and Power Minister).

Similarly, following the 1997 elections, the Labour Party under Fabian General Secretary Tom Sawyer appointed the following cabinet:

• Tony Blair (Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Civil Service Minister),

• John Prescott (Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State),

• Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Second Lord of the Treasury and later Prime Minister),

• Ann Taylor (Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council),

• Lord Richard (Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords),

• Jack Straw (Home Secretary),

• David Blunkett (Education and Employment Secretary),

• Margaret Beckett (Trade Secretary 1997),

• Peter Mandelson (Trade Secretary 1998),

• Robin Cook (Foreign Secretary),

• Clare Short (Secretary for International Development),

• Harriet Harman (Social Security Secretary), etc.

With one or two exceptions, all of these, beginning with Tony Blair, were members of the Fabian Society.

Other Fabians and associates appointed to cabinets under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown included: Douglas Alexander, Ed Balls, Hilary Benn, Des Browne, Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, John Denham, Peter Hain, Patricia Hewitt, John Hutton, Ruth Kelly, Alan Milburn, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and John Reid.

In short, by 1997 there were over 200 Fabian MPs (out of 418 Labour MPs) in the House of Commons ("The Fabian Society: a brief history", Guardian, 13 Aug 2001).

The massive infiltration of Parliament and the systematic appointment of Fabians to key positions in the Labour Party and, particularly, in Labour governments, demonstrates without a shadow of doubt that from inception the Fabian Society has seen the Labour Party as an instrument for undemocratically exerting political power and influence for its own agenda, while its leadership operates quietly behind the scenes.

MAKING BRITAIN SOCIALIST

As stated in the 1887 Fabian Basis, the ultimate object of the Fabian Society was to "advance Socialism in England" - by which they meant Britain. Indeed, the establishment of Fabian societies in Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well as of the Scottish Labour Party (1888) proves that the Fabians never intended to restrict their missionary activities to England.

Apart from establishing local Fabian societies all over the country and publishing Socialist propaganda materials (including Bernard Shaw's own plays), the Fabians also set up a number of nationwide organizations for the purpose of consolidating the grip of Socialism on British society. Among these were: the Universities Socialist Federation, founded in 1912 by Fabian Society Executive member Clifford Allen (later Lord Allen of Hurtwood); the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda (1930); and the Left Book Club (1939).

The Fabians were particularly active in promoting Socialism during World War II, taking full advantage of inter-party cooperation and state control. Already in 1939, the Society declared that as war-time control embodies a large element of Socialism in the sense of public control over industry, commerce, and finance, it was the Fabians' business as Socialists to see to it that that Socialism shall be real Socialism and not a "bastard form of State Capitalism" (M. Cole, p. 261).

Accordingly, in June 1941, the Society formed a Socialist Advisory Committee which included representatives of the influential Left Book Club, urging the initiation of a great leap forward into Socialism after the model of the Soviet Union.

In July, the Fabian Executive resolved to set up a committee on "International Work with special reference to Anglo-Soviet Cooperation".

In August, Left Book Club co-founder Victor Golancz delivered a Fabian summer school lecture on the theme that as Britain was an ally of "the great Socialist State" it was their opportunity and "immediate duty" to work for Socialism in Britain. The Fabian Executive formed a Socialist Propaganda Committee to carry the message through the land.

As a result of this massive propaganda campaign which included the systematic indoctrination of servicemen by Socialist tutors in the Army Educational Corps, the Fabians at the 1945 elections were able to launch Britain's first majority Socialist government. In an election broadcast earlier that year, Attlee had promised that a Labour government will "take the first steps along the road to a Socialist Britain" (Thomas-Symonds, p. 126).

The large-scale socialist reforms of the Fabian Clement Attlee

Once elected, his government proceeded to implement the Socialist measures proposed by the Fabian Society, such as the nationalization of land, railways and mines, state control of education, industry, trade and finance, etc., all of which was marketed as necessary to the establishment of Socialism for the nation's "welfare".

As openly stated by Shaw in his "The Transition to Social Democracy" (1889), the Fabian object was the "expropriation of private proprietors and the transfer of their property to the entire nation". The "nation", however, meant "the State as the representative of the people". All facts considered bringing the whole of society under state control and the state itself under Labour control, logically meant one thing: total control by the Fabian Society operating as always from behind the scenes with the Labour Party as a "democratic" front.

The Fabian Fifth Column in Academic Environment

While the Labour Party has been the principal instrument through which the Fabians have aimed to control British society and to push it in a Socialist direction, it has been supported in its task by a spiderweb of academic, research and other organizations exerting influence on both government and public. Apart from LSE whose declared goal is to promote Socialism, these have included the following:

• Royal Economic Society (RES), founded in 1890 by Fabian leader Bernard Shaw;

• Imperial College London, founded in 1907 by Sidney Webb;

• Noel Buxton Trust (NBT), a foundation working for "social change", established in 1919 by the Fabian Noel (later Lord) Noel-Buxton;

• National Union of Students (NUS), co-founded in 1922 by the LSE and London University (another Fabian-controlled institution with which the LSE had merged earlier);

• National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), set up in 1938 by LSE graduate and banker Josiah Stamp, NIESR has had Fabian Society general secretary Bosworth Monk among its presidents;

• London Business School (LBS), University of London, founded in 1965 by representatives of the Fabian-controlled LSE and Imperial College;

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), a clone of the US Social Science Research Council (SSRC) -itself founded in 1923 in collaboration with Sidney Webb's American Economic Association -ESRC was set up in 1965 under the government of former Fabian Society chairman Harold Wilson with leading Fabian Michael (later Lord) Young as chief executive, who alone was responsible for the creation of over 60 like-minded organizations;

• John Smith Memorial Fund (JSMF), founded in 1966 to promote the ideas of former Fabian and Labour leader John Smith, its advisory board includes Fabians like Lord Dubbs, former Fabian Society chairman;

• Runnymede Trust, set up in 1968 by Fabian Society honorary treasurer (later chairman) Anthony Lester;

• Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), founded in 1988 with former LSE lecturer and Fabian Society chairman Tessa Blackstone, as chairman of the board of trustees, IPPR is advised by bodies like the Progressive Migration Advisory Group whose members include former Fabian Society general secretary Sunder Katwala;

• Progress, a Blairite (New Labour) think tank and pressure group co-founded in 1996 by Liam Byrne, a former Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Business School, as well as a banker with N. M. Rothschild & Sons and a member of the Fabian Society, who is a leading advocate of corporate-sponsored Socialism which he euphemistically calls "inclusive capitalism". (Progress directors, chairmen and presidents have included leading Fabians like Fabian Society general secretary and later chairman Stephen Twigg; Jessica Asato, chairman of the Fabian Research and Publications Committee; and various other Fabian Society members, supporters, partners and collaborators such as Richard Angell, Dan Jarvis, Alison McGovern and John Woodcock, while Progress sponsors, partners and collaborators include Fabian organizations like the Fabian Society, British Future and IPPR; being affiliated with the Labour Party, Progress is a major source of Fabian influence on Labour after the Fabian Society.);

• Smith Institute, named after John Smith (see above), the institute was founded in 1997 by the Fabian Gordon Brown, a protege of John Smith;

• Policy Network, founded in 1999 by Prime Minister and Fabian Society member Tony Blair in collaboration with Germany's Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and America's Democratic President Bill Clinton and chaired by leading Fabian Lord Mandelson;

• Policy Exchange, established in 2002, has the likes of John Willman, former general secretary of the Fabian Society, among its senior research fellows;

• British Future, founded in 2007 and directed by the Fabian Sunder Katwala;

• Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), founded in 2007 by Fabian Home Secretary John Reid;

• UK Border Agency (UKBA), formed in 2008 as the Labour Government's border control agency by Fabian Immigration Minister and Progress cofounder Liam Byrne, a former Rothschild banker who is also cofounder of the Young Fabians magazine Anticipations.

A THOROUGHLY FABIANIZED WORLD: FABIANISM'S GLOBAL NETWORK

Like its expansion in the United Kingdom, the international expansion of Fabianism has been deliberate, systematic and very thorough. Even before becoming a national force, the Fabian Society had began to extend its international tentacles through emigrating individual Fabians, through the formation of overseas Fabian societies and through systematic propaganda campaigns.

Fabian infiltration into the United States

One of the earliest activists to have sown the seeds of Fabianism overseas was Eleanor Marx, youngest daughter of Karl Marx. A believer in theatre as a Socialist tool, she had met Bernard Shaw and become involved with fellow Social Democratic Federation member and Fabian Edward Aveling (translator of Marx's Das Kapital into English). In 1885, accompanied by Aveling and Marx's disciple and intimate friend Wilhelm Liebknecht (cofounder of Germany's Social Democratic Party) Eleanor Marx-Aveling went on a tour of the United States to promote Socialism (Martin, p. 117).

As in England, Fabians were particularly active in American universities, beginning with Harvard University, the first bridgehead of Fabian infiltration in America (Martin, p. 337), followed by other universities. Fabian Society leaders Sidney and Beatrice Webb themselves toured America in 1888 and 1898 when they trained Fabian groups and established connections with the American Economic Association at Harvard University (Dobbs, ch. 3, online version, www.keynesatharvard.org).

The Webbs were followed by other prominent Fabian missionaries, including LSE lecturer Graham Wallas who taught at Harvard on several occasions from 1910 and Harold Laski who lectured at Harvard from 1916 to 1919. Like many other universities around the world, apart from Fabian teachers, Harvard had a library full of Fabian writings and soon became a stronghold of Fabianism.

Among the Harvard graduates who were subjected to Fabian indoctrination and became Fabian activists were: James Harvey Robinson (Harvard graduate, 1887), W.E.B. Du Bois (Harvard 1890), Oswald Garrison Villard (Harvard 1893) and, in particular, Walter Lippmann (Harvard 1910) who studied under Wallas in 1910 and later visited the Webbs and other Fabian leaders in England; and David Rockefeller (Harvard 1936). Rockefeller, who wrote a senior thesis on Fabian Socialism entitled "Destitution through Fabian Eyes", was appointed to Harvard's board of overseers in the 1950s and 60s and has been a good friend of Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey (Rockefeller, p. 332).

As a journalist, political activist and adviser to US presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Lyndon Johnson, the Fabian Walter Lippmann became one of the most influential Americans of the early 20th century (Steel, 2005). Together with Harry W. Laidler, Lippmann was a leader of the New York Intercollegiate Socialist Society which had been founded under Fabian influence and guidance (Hubbard, p. 111) and was later renamed League for Industrial Democracy to reflect the Fabian Socialism advocated by the Webbs in their book Industrial Democracy.

In 1914, Lippmann became founder and editor of the Socialist magazine New Republic, which published contributions by British Fabians. As admitted by Margaret Cole, the League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was one of the main contacts through which the London Fabian Society exercised influence in America (M. Cole, p. 347). In fact, the LID was more than just a "contact", being described in Fabian Society Annual Reports (1925-1930) as "one of our provincial societies" (Martin, p. 236).

Earlier, former London Fabian Society Executive member J. W. Martin in collaboration with William D. P. Bliss of Boston had established an American Fabian Society at Boston which fathered Fabian societies in Philadelphia and San Francisco, and later societies were recorded in Chicago and at Yale (M. Cole, p. 347).

Fabian infiltration of religious institutions in the United States

Of particular importance was British Fabian influence on religion. The Fabian Harry Frederick Ward emigrated to America where he was involved in the founding of the US Federal Council of Churches in 1908. Percival Chubb, a founding member of the London Fabian Society, became President of the American Ethical Union in 1934, etc. Similarly, in 1906, W. D. P. Bliss, who was secretary of the Christian Social Union, joined the Christian Socialist Fellowship which was affiliated with the Catholic Socialist Society and the Socialist Party.

Ward, Chubb and other Fabian ex-pats, together with local Fabians like Bliss, preached various shades of "Christian" Socialism in America while remaining in contact with the London Society. As in other parts of the world, British and local Fabians in America were responsible for the creation of organizations that mirrored those back in England:

• the American Christian Socialist Society (organized by Bliss),

• the Christian Socialist League (which revolved around Bliss's paper The Dawn),

• the Church Socialist League,

• the Church League for Industrial Democracy,

• the Fellowship of Socialist Christians, etc. (Britannica, vol. 2, p. 284; The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, vol. 2; Laidler, pp. 732-3).

Frequent visiting preachers of Fabianism to America included Keir Hardie.

The influence of Fabian John Keynes on Britain, the United States, and the world

In addition, British Fabianism was influential in America through prominent Fabians like Herbert G. Wells and John Maynard Keynes.

Through his prolific writings and New Republic contributions, Wells became the idol of America's left-wing intelligentsia in the first two decades of the 20th century. Likewise, Keynes attained extensive and lasting influence in America from the early 1930s through his gospel of the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money expounding the Fabian "New Economics" and was particularly admired by President Roosevelt and other leading Americans (Martin, pp. 330 ff.).

Fabian economists like Keynes became chief advisers to governments and were instrumental in the institutionalization of the role of the unelected economic adviser as de facto public policy maker (Dahrendorf, pp. 354-5). Keynes himself who, as head of the Fabians' Royal Economic Society was the official economist of Fabian Socialism, served as adviser to the British Government during World War I. He joined the Economic Advisory Council to the 1929 Labour Government and became the leading light of the Treasury after the Second World War, while also being a co-architect of the 1944 Breton Woods conference which established the World Bank and the IMF.

Keynes' enduring legacy in America is evident from President Obama's choice of economic advisers. Already in 2008, Obama who has been described as a "shady Chicago Socialist" on account of his links with the Chicago branch of the new Socialist Party appointed a number of Keynesian economists to key positions in his entourage, such as

• Robert Summers (Samuelson), head of the National Economic Council,

• Timothy Franz Geithner, secretary of the Treasury and

• Christina Romer, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

America's Fabians performed much the same function as their British counterparts, faithfully following the pattern for gradual social, economic, political and cultural revolution set by their parent society in London. In Lippmann's own words, their object was "to make reactionaries standpatters; standpatters, conservatives; conservatives, liberals; liberals, radicals; and radicals, Socialists. In other words, we tried to move everyone up a peg [in the direction of Socialism]" (Martin, p. 187).

This was paralleled by British Fabians who aimed to make Conservatives more Liberal and Liberals more Socialist. As in Britain, this was achieved in collaboration with a nationwide network of organizations and institutions mirroring British counterparts, such as

• the American Economic Association (modelled on the British Economic Association),

• the Rand School of Social Science

• and the Department of Economics at Harvard University (inspired by the London School of Economics and the Workers' Educational Association), etc. (Martin pp. 124, 197, 337).

Needless to say, the Fabians also established a strong presence in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Following in the footsteps of the Webbs, Charles L. Marson had gone in 1889 to Adelaide to spread Fabianism (Pugh, p. 36) and Fabian societies appeared there in 1894 and later in Melbourne. Canada had Fabian societies in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Hamilton, Ontario. There was a Fabian Society at Christchurch, New Zealand.

Similarly, by 1890, India had a Fabian society at Bombay and later (1921) at Madras. The Madras society called itself "the Fabian Society of India" and had as president Annie Besant who in 1891 had suddenly "converted to Theosophy", though obviously remaining a faithful and trusted Fabian (M. Cole, pp. 37, 347). Like the Fabian societies in America, those in the Colonies were "in periodical communication with the parent body" (Fabian Society Annual Report 1909-10, 13 May 1910, p. 10).

There were also Fabian societies in Japan, South Africa, Nigeria and apparently even Burma (Cole, p. 347). As stated by Fabian Society co-founder and Honorary Secretary E. R. Pease, the Society always retained a scattering of members, mostly officials or teachers, in India, Africa, China and South America (Pease, p. 79). In fact, it was far more than a mere "scattering" and the "officials and teachers" often held positions of influence and importance exactly as predicted by the Society's annual reports. Indians, in particular, who were deemed more suitable for conversion to Socialism than the Africans, West Indians or Chinese (Pugh, p. 72), have always been staunch disciples of Fabianism and have played a key role in the Fabian scheme (Martin, p. 309).

Muhammad Ali Jinna (future creator of Pakistan) and Mahatma Gandhi became members of the Fabian Society in 1920 (Pugh, p. 143). Though not a member, future Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru also came under Fabian influence at about the same time, later making India a Fabian Socialist republic with a constitution suitably drafted by LSE alumnus B. R. Ambedkar (see also Singapore, etc.).

As correctly pointed out by the daughter of leading Fabian Willie Herbert Utley, Freda, Fabian Socialists trained at LSE and other schools in England became the new ruling class in Asia (Utley, 1970; cf. Martin, p. 309).

The role played by LSE-trained politicians, civil servants and academics and particularly "economists", in running governments around the world has been confirmed by LSE leaders like Lord Dahrendorf (Dahrendorf, pp. 408-9) as has the Fabians' close relationship with India. The Indians' special services rendered to Fabianism were acknowledged with the appointment in 2003 of Sunder Katwala, author of Reinventing the Commonwealth (1999), as Fabian Society General Secretary.

In Europe, Ireland had been "blessed" with a personal visitation from the Fabian pontiffs, the Webbs themselves, who conveniently used their honeymoon there in 1892 to spread the gospel of Fabianism. After the Webbs, other Fabian missionaries were dispatched to various parts of Ireland with special Fabian tracts (no doubt designed by the Fabian Committee on Taste) sporting green covers instead of the usual red (Pugh, p. 58-9).

On its part, the Continent had been subjected to the missionary activities of apostles of Fabianism like Willie Utley (Pugh, p. 36) and groups "on Fabian lines" were established at Madrid, Copenhagen, Frankfurt and Budapest (M. Cole, p. 348). One of the earliest Fabian strongholds in Madrid was one called "Escuela Nueva", modelled on the London Fabian Society and headed by leading Socialist, Prof. Enrique Marti Jara (Fabian Society Annual Report 1929-30). Fabians were also active in Greece, Turkey and neighbouring countries where they spread their "progressive" ideas.

Leading Fabians like Sidney Webb, Arthur Henderson, Morgan Phillips and Ramsay MacDonald were early supporters of a Jewish state in Palestine, followed by Arthur Creech Jones, Herbert Morrison, Phillip Noel-Baker and Richard Crossman and were instrumental in paving the way for the creation of Israel which they saw as a pioneer of Socialism in the region (this, again, illustrates how legitimate demands for a national home are systematically diverted for the advancement of International Socialism whose ultimate goal is the abolition of the nation-state).

In addition to Fabian societies proper, the London HQ established an extensive global network of Socialist trade unions and other organizations in the political, educational and cultural fields, with officials being brought over for training, indoctrination and direction. Delegations from the Commonwealth and all over the world were received in London where they conferred with members of the Fabian International and Commonwealth Bureaux or attended propaganda and indoctrination programmes such as Fabian Summer Schools (Martin, pp. 86-7).

Following the failure of Marx and Engels to impose Socialism by force of arms, their movement had already taken an opportunist "Fabian" turn, that is, away from violent revolution and towards gradual, parliamentary methods. The great revolutionary Engels himself came to preach "slow propaganda work and parliamentary activity" (Engels, 1895). Fabianism, therefore, was a development within the Socialist movement. The Fabian Society's special "merit" was to cleverly place itself at the forefront of the new Socialist trend and hijack it for its own purposes.

While earlier, Socialism had been dominated by Marx and Engels and the German Social Democratic Party (the world's largest and most influential Socialist organization), Britain's Fabians soon became the leading ideological force in the Socialist movement, being in a position to influence other Socialists, including their former German tutors. Already by the early 1890s, thousands of copies of Fabian Essays in Socialism were being sold in England and America, followed by translations into European languages such as Dutch, Norwegian and German. A more subtle, though no less effective, form of influence was exercised through literally hundreds of novels and other writings churned out by the Fabian propaganda machine, as well as through Shaw's propagandistic plays which by 1914 had gained a worldwide audience, being performed in nearly a dozen European countries and the US.

In sum, we can see why by 1915, Fabian leader Bernard Shaw was able to assert that the world had been "thoroughly Fabianized" in the previous twenty-five years (Pease, p. 179). Similarly, in 1957, Rita Hinden of the Colonial Bureau reported (with full justification) that there seemed to be Fabians everywhere in the world (Martin, p. 87).

FABIANISM AND WORLD REVOLUTION

The Fabians' path of gradual Socialism did not prevent them from maintaining links with more revolutionary and violent movements. Of particular importance in this respect was the Socialist International. First founded by Karl Marx in London in 1864 as the International Working Men's Association (IWMA), it was reconstituted in Paris in 1889 as the Second International and again in 1951 as the Socialist International, headquartered in London.

As such, it was the coordinating body for international Socialism and the Fabians got involved from the start, attending Second International congresses at Paris (1886 and 1889), Brussels (1891), Zurich (1893), London (1896) and again Brussels (1906) (M. Cole, pp. 44-5) and taking a leading role. Keir Hardie attended the Second International's founding congress and Bernard Shaw was at the 1893 and 1896 congresses in Zurich and London (Henderson, p. 171). Particularly significant is the participation in the International by elements like Kerensky's Socialist-Revolutionary Party, as well as Alexander Helfand (Alias Parvus) and Lenin, who later were involved in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The influence of Fabianism on Soviet communism

Indeed, Fabianism's influence on and connections with Russian Socialism and Soviet Communism are worthy of closer investigation. The Fabian concept of "Industrial Democracy" as a model for Socialist society was adopted by Lenin who in 1897 translated into Russian the Webbs' work of that title. According to Shaw, Lenin studied the works of Sydney Webb and "became a gradualist" (gradual change theory) after which he transformed Russian Socialism into Fabianism (Shaw, 26 Nov. 1931).

Members of the London-based Society of Friends of Russian Freedom, an organization connected with Russian revolutionaries, were also members of the Fabian Rainbow Circle. Webb's and Shaw's Fabian friend Joseph Fels (who was married to Fannie Rothschild's daughter, Mary Fels) provided a loan of 1,700, in addition to pocket money in the sum of one gold sovereign per delegate, to Lenin, Trotsky and their Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (later Communist Party) during their 1907 London conference (Rappaport, pp. 153-4; cf. Joseph and Mary Fels Papers www.hsp.org; Martin, pp. 29, 161; M. Cole, p. 113).

We also know that:

• Julius West of the Fabian Executive was present at the Second Russian Congress of Soviets (7-9 Nov. 1917) at which Lenin declared his new Communist government (Pugh, p. 136);

• the Russian Communist regime had links to officials of the English and Russian Bank (which was run by Milnerite Lord Balfour and other Fabian collaborators) and other western banks (Sutton, 1974, p. 122; here, p. 199);

• Shaw described Lenin as the "greatest statesman of Europe" (Quoted by Jones, 1925);

• Shaw and his friends Lord and Lady Astor visited Stalin in 1931, followed by the Webbs in 1932;

• both Shaw and Sidney Webb approved of the Soviet regime and retained strong sympathies for it to the last (the Webbs even kept a portrait of Lenin at their home) (Utley, 1970);

• the Webbs regarded Stalinism as "applied Fabianism" (MacKenzie & MacKenzie, p. 406);

• Shaw in 1931 declared that "Bolshevism became Fabianism, called Communism" (Shaw, 26 Nov. 1931);

• Shaw believed that Russian Communism was neither Anarchism nor Syndicalism but Fabian Socialism and that the U.S.S.R. was really a Union of Fabian Republics (Shaw, 13 Aug. 1931; cf. Holroyd, vol. 3, p. 251);

• finally, we know that in 1948, two years before his death, Shaw said that "Stalin is a good Fabian" (Weintraub, 2011).

The influence of Fabianism on the socialists of continental Europe

In Germany, leading Socialist Eduard Bernstein came under the influence of the Fabian Society early on while in exile in London from 1888 to 1901. On his return to Germany, Bernstein urged his party to follow the English (Fabian) method of introducing Socialist reforms through parliamentary pressure -or what Shaw defined as "wire-pulling the government in order to get Socialist measures passed" -and by the outbreak of World War I his teachings had thoroughly permeated the party, laying the foundations of Europe's "revisionist" brand of Marxism along Fabian lines.

As proof of agreement between Bernstein's and the Fabians' brand of Socialism, the English version of his book The Preconditions of Socialism (1899) was published in 1909 by the Fabian Independent Labour Party (ILP) under the title Evolutionary Socialism. The activities of the Fabianized Social Democrats resulted in their domination of German politics. The November Revolution of 1818 led to the abolition of the German monarchy and establishment of a Social Democratic government in 1919.

In Austria, too, the Fabians had established a Fabian circle in Vienna in the early days and Austria soon became a Fabian stronghold. In the wake of the 1918 Revolution, the Austrian monarchy was abolished and prominent Fabian Michael Hainisch became President of the Austrian Republic (0BL, p. 152).

Meanwhile, Wall Street interests allied with the Fabian Society and the Milner Group, which included the J.P. Morgan-controlled Guaranty Trust Company, were involved in China's 1912 Revolution, led by National Socialist Sun Yat-sen and Mexico's 1910-20 Revolution, led by Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza (Sutton, 1974, pp. 51-3).

The Fabians support the use of force to advance the interests of the British ruling class

Interestingly, the same Fabians who called for the abolition of private property and Capitalism also called for the imposition of British trade interests on other countries by force. The Fabian Society's position was spelt out by Bernard Shaw in Fabianism and the Empire: A Manifesto by the Fabian Society (1900) where he stated that Chinese institutions were incompatible with British trade interests and therefore they had to go, adding that if the Chinese could not establish order in a British sense, the Powers (Britain, America, etc.) must establish it for them (Fabianism and the Empire, p. 47).

Sending the gunboats to force other nations to do "business" with Britain was piratical behaviour of the worst kind. It certainly did not enhance Britain's prestige among other nations. On the contrary, it was this kind of behaviour that inevitably led to conflict with other countries, such as Germany, who (not unreasonably) failed to see why the British should be allowed to grab one colony after the other while preventing others from doing the same.

Shaw himself conceded that British Ministers who waged war on other nations for economic reasons were being used by financial interests "as a ferret is used by a poacher" (ibid. p. 10). But, at the same time, Shaw asserted the "right" of foreign powers to establish governments in countries opposed to those powers' interests, welcoming the European military expedition against China to enforce international commercial and political interests (p. 45). Needless to say, once such practices had become established policy, there was no end to it: after China came Russia, Germany and, eventually, the British Empire itself.

Clearly, while the Fabian Manifesto condemned the actions of some financial interests, it condoned others, namely those that were close or convenient to the Society and its International Socialism. It becomes obvious by now that we are dealing with nothing less than a worldwide conspiracy to subvert the existing order and take over political and economic power in the interests of a private clique representing international financial interests.

In line with this agenda, Fabians have maintained close links to Socialist revolutionary and terrorist organizations and regimes across the world. The conduits through which these links were established and maintained have been

• individual Fabians such as John Parker, who held the posts of Fabian Society general secretary, chairman and president and was a regular visitor to the Soviet Union from the 1930s into the 60s (Martin, 1966),

• as well as organizations set up for this purpose, such as the Africa Bureau which linked Fabians with revolutionary movements in Africa, notably that of South Africa's Nelson Mandela.

Fabians have also been linked with

• the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

• and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. The latter's regime conveniently provided arms to the IRA as well as funds to the Fabians' LSE (Harnden, 2011). See also note, p. 121.

THE "OPEN CONSPIRACY"

Imaginative literature has been a key medium of Fabian propaganda and indoctrination from the start. Revealing some aspects of a conspiracy while concealing others is a typical Milner-Fabian pattern that can be found, however unwittingly, even in historians like Carroll Quigley.

To deflect attention and criticism, the Milner-Fabian camp came up with the ingenious yet highly characteristic tactic (which is easy to unmask once the Milner-Fabian mode of operation has been grasped) of publishing a book entitled The Open Conspiracy. Written by Shaw's former colleague on the Fabian Propaganda Committee, Herbert G. Wells, in 1928 and revised several times, the book attempted to take the wind out of the critics' sails by falsely claiming that the Conspiracy was "open" and that the whole world was participating in it.

According to Wells, the Conspiracy arises "naturally and necessarily" from the increase of knowledge and the broadening outlook of many minds throughout the world. According to him, the Conspiracy was not a movement initiated by any individual or radiating from any particular centre. Nor was it a single organization but a "conception of life" out of which organizations and new orientations will arise.

What is significant is that Wells did describe the movement as a conspiracy even though he cleverly qualified it as "open". While it may be argued that a conspiracy that is open and in which the whole world participates is not really a conspiracy -which seems to be the gist of the book's misleading message -the question is whether this applies to this particular conspiracy. On closer examination, this does not appear to be the case.

The fact is that the organizations directing the movement were anything but "open". The Fabian Society itself was a private membership organization or club which could not be described as "open to the public" by any stretch of the imagination. This was even more so in the case of the Milner Group which for all intents and purposes was a secret organization.

It is clear from many statements made by members of the Fabian Society and its associated organizations that these groups aimed to establish a new ruling order led by an academic and administrative elite (or group of "experts") which was in turn directed by themselves (Pugh, p. 81; Martin, p. 340; Quigley, 1981, pp. 131, 134).

That both Fabian Society and Milner Group leaders intended to rule from behind the scenes, is evident, for example, from Fabian Society General Secretary Pease sitting discreetly on the Labour Party Executive, while Webb was chairman of the party's Advisory Committee on International Questions and later Colonial Secretary and thus instrumental in devising Labour policy for the whole of the British Empire.

More recent examples would be:

• Peter Mandelson, architect of "New Labour" as well as friend of the Rothschilds and adviser to Lazard;

• European chairman of the Trilateral Commission and Goldman Sachs chairman, Peter Sutherland, who is also chairman of the academic elite going by the name of London School of Economics and many others.

Clearly, this in itself made the Conspiracy far less "open" than it was claimed.

Nor was there any evidence to support the claim that the whole world participated in forming these groups' motivating ideology. On the contrary, the evidence, for example, shows that public opinion was formed by organizations like the Labour Party whose agenda was dictated by the Fabian Society on the instructions of a few leading Fabians who were close friends of a small clique of international financiers whose true motives and interests were unknown to the general public, i.e., to the "whole world" which was supposedly involved in the Conspiracy.

Both the Fabian Society and the Milner Group were expert propagandists and manipulators of public opinion. A prime example was Bernard Shaw himself. Even before joining Wells on the Fabian Propaganda Committee in the early 1900s, he had routinely published fake letters and imaginary "interviews" (Pugh, p. 48) for purposes of propaganda and self-promotion. Engels, who believed that the Fabians were motivated by personal interests and were not true Socialists, conceded that their propagandist writings were "of the best kind which the English have produced" (Letter to F. A. Sorge, 18 Jan, 1893, MECW, vol. 50, pp. 81-4).

Neither Shaw's personal propaganda efforts nor those of the various Fabian outfits (the Propaganda Committee, the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda, etc.) would have been in the least necessary had it been the case that these organizations were inspired by public opinion and not the other way round. From the very start, the Fabian Society had announced that the Fabians were associated for the purpose of spreading opinions held by them, not opinions held by the world ("A Manifesto", Fabian Tract No. 2, 1884, emphasis added).

On their part, the masses (correctly) identified the Fabians as unprincipled spiders, spinning webs to entrap honest working men (M. Cole, p. 87). As already noted, Shaw himself described the world as "Fabianized" which clearly indicated an influence radiating from the Fabian Society to the wider world, not from the world to the Society.

It follows that the "Open Conspiracy" was, after all, a conspiracy. And, like all other conspiracies, it did have a geographical centre from which it originally radiated, namely London. More importantly, it had an intellectual centre consisting of the Fabian Society and the Milner Group.

The Conspiracy may or may not have been initiated by a single individual or, for that matter, by a single organization. But, firstly, initiation by a single individual or organization is not a requirement for a conspiracy to qualify as such and, secondly, it was a single network of closely interlocking organizations, the chief among them being the Fabian Society and the Milner Group which operated in parallel and in harmony with each other.

It is not mere coincidence that in the 1940s Fabian Hugh Dalton and Milnerite Lord Selbourne (Roundell Palmer) controlled the British Ministry of Economic Warfare which was in charge of Special Operations Executive (SOE) whose founder was Dalton himself. Unsurprisingly, Dalton was also instrumental in the creation of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) a.k.a. Political Intelligence Department (PID) which later mutated into the Psychological Warfare Division (PWD/SHAEF).

The same elements and their Anglo-American associates -and not the general public -were responsible for the creation of the League of Nations, the United Nations, the European Union and related organizations working for the overarching goal of world domination.

As admitted by the Fabian Executive itself, the Fabians were the "brainworkers" of the Labour Party (Fabian News, XXIX (5), Apr. 1918 in Pugh, p. 138). The Labour Party in turn led the masses who had been conditioned through systematic propaganda and indoctrination to (falsely) believe that Labour represented their interests. In 1954, on the Fabian Society's 70th anniversary, its Secretary Margaret Cole described the Society as the "thinking machine of British Socialism" (Pugh, p. 236).

In fact, given its overwhelming influence on culture, politics and education in Britain, America, India and elsewhere, the Fabian Society may equally have been described as the "thinking machine of Britain and the world".

At any rate, like other similar movements, the Conspiracy had a mastermind or brain, consisting of leading ideologists who did the thinking and decision-making on behalf of the rank and file. And where there is a brain there is a centre. Indeed, Fabian Labour leaders like MacDonald advocated a state, i.e., a centre, that "thinks and feels for the whole" (MacDonald, Socialism and Government).

Above all, this network of organizations led by the Fabian Society and the Milner Group the intellectual centre or brain of the Conspiracy had a self-serving aim which Wells himself describes in his book as to amalgamate existing controls and forms of human association into a "common world directorate".

It must be beyond dispute that this "world directorate", as in the case of the League of Nations, the United Nations and similar organizations, was to be created and controlled by these very groups. Indirect world rule by an academic elite consisting of themselves was the ultimate aim of the Fabians as it was of Milnerites and Marxists (Martin, p. 340). To the extent that the Milner-Fabian Conspiracy served the interests of a few to the detriment of the many, it was (and continues to be) a conspiracy against humanity.

FABIANISM AND WORLD GOVERNMENT

Internationalism was another key feature shared by Fabian Socialism, Marxism and Milnerism. As noted above, the ordering of the world by the Great Powers had already been suggested in the Fabian Society's 1900 election manifesto, Fabianism and the Empire. International control of colonies was part of the same Fabian thinking (cf. Pugh, p. 80). Moreover, the same document claimed that the notion of a nation's right to do what it pleased with its own territory was untenable from the International Socialist point of view and condemned the "fixed frontiers ideals of individualist republicanism".

[*] My note: Internationalism is an ideology that calls for transcending national, political, cultural, racial, or class boundaries in order to advance common interests. This ideology originated in 19th-century England and expressed the desire of the British ruling class to open the borders of foreign countries to British goods and influence.

In practice, internationalism results in states losing their sovereignty to supranational structures such as the UN, WHO, the International Court, etc. In essence, the word "internationalism" serves as a cover for the word "globalism".

End of my note.

The Commonwealth of Nations as a Stage on the Path to a World State

Having rubbished national sovereignty as "outmoded" and "a cause of wars", the Fabians soon came to openly advocate outright world government as a logical progression in their subversive scheme.

The formation of "Commonwealths" was a preliminary step in this direction. In 1904, in the preface to his John Bull's Other Island, Shaw wrote that the future belonged to federations of nations or "Commonwealths" as much as within individual nations it belonged to "collectivist organizations". Grouping nations into collective "commonwealths" was obviously seen as a logical progression from placing a nation's means of production and the product of labour under collective (i.e., State) ownership and management.

And the next step from "commonwealths of nations" was to unite all such regional entities into a worldwide state under one (Milner-Fabian) government.

A key plank in this scheme was for the British Empire itself to be replaced with a "Commonwealth". In its 1906 Tract No. 127 ("Socialism and the Labour Party"), the Fabian Society declared that the British Empire "must be transformed into a great democratic Commonwealth" (p. 3). What is particularly significant is that the creation of a "Commonwealth" as a substitute for the British Empire was a key aim the Fabians shared with the Milner Group.

Needless to say, making the Empire a "democratic Commonwealth" meant nothing less than its dissolution and Britain's subordination to an international government along with all other empires that were being brought down one by one: China, Russia, Germany, Austria, etc. Already in the 1900 manifesto, Shaw had spoken of the "uselessness of retaining colonies" (Fabianism and the Empire, p. 55).

H.G. Wells is an ardent supporter of the World Government

One of the earliest and most vigorous Fabian advocates of world government, of course, was H. G. Wells himself who had been a believer in World State at least from 1900. Having joined the Fabian Society in February 1903, he was soon elected to the fourth place on the Executive (after Webb, Pease and Shaw) and proposed to tum the Society into a ruling order working for World State, akin to the "Samurai" in his A Modern Utopia. Shaw himself had earlier expressed his wish to make the Fabians "the Jesuits of Socialism" (Martin, p. 16) and the leadership went along with many of Wells' proposals.

In the end, Wells' personality clashed with that of other leaders and, in September 1909, he resigned from the Society. However, he had won the sympathy and admiration of most Fabians and his influence on the Society continued unscathed (M. Cole, p. 124). Wells' proposal to rearrange local government on "scientific" lines was taken up by the Webbs in their Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain (1920). His idea of World State reappeared in suitably modified form in Fabian and other publications. Moreover, he continued to collaborate with the Fabians in projects such as the promotion of the League of Nations idea and in 1922 ran for Parliament as a candidate for the Fabians' Labour Party front

The League of Nations as a basis for the creation of a World Government

The League of Nations itself had its roots in the Milner-Fabian concept of a league of great powers, already contemplated by Shaw in 1900 when he wrote of a "Federation of the World" (Pugh, p. 78; Porter, p. 60), as well as by the Milner Group leadership. It was later developed by Fabians like A. J. Hobson in Towards International Government (1915) and, in particular, by Leonard Woolf - on behalf of the FS - in his International Government (1916).

The League of Nations was established in 1919 with the help of Milnerites and Fabians or Milner-Fabians (like Walter Lippmann) operating within US President Woodrow Wilson's "Inquiry" Group (Martin, pp. 167-73; Manson, 2007; www.clemson.edu). Once again this shows that the two organizations worked in parallel towards the same overarching objective.

Significantly, Woolf was appointed Secretary of the Labour Party's Imperial and International Advisory Committees and, in 1943, he became chairman of the new Fabian International Bureau (FIB), all key positions where he was able to influence international policies (Pugh, p. 131).

Apart from Woolf, leading Fabians associated with the FIB and its world government designs included Labour Party Secretary-General Morgan Phillips and Denis Healey.

The Fabian Society recreates the Socialist International to establish control over the global left movement

As most of the Continent's Socialist parties had been closed down by the German authorities during the war, Britain's six-million-strong Labour Party acquired a dominant position in International Socialism. This was exploited to the full by the FIB with its creation, in 1951, of the Socialist International (SI), an organization which was headed by Phillips and had the first draft of its Declaration of Principles written by Healey. At its very first Congress at Frankfurt, the SI declared that "national sovereignty must be transcended" (" Aims and Tasks of Democratic Socialism", Declaration of the Socialist International adopted at its First Congress held in Frankfort-on-Main on 30 June -3 July 1951).

[*] My note: The Socialist International, which includes 132 parties over 100 countries, is a significant instrument of political influence, allowing Fabian Society to advance its own interests on the world stage.

In 2017, Socialist International President Antonio Guterres was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Upon assuming the helm of the organization, he outlined the priorities of British foreign policy, including:

• weakening national sovereignty;

• using the climate agenda as a tool to limit economic growth;

• stimulating migration from Asia and Africa with the aim of degrading European civilization;

• supporting radical Islamic organizations and states;

• a hardline anti-Israel line;

• a course toward global population reduction.

The climax of Guterres' tenure as UN Secretary-General was the COVID-19 pandemic, which he, along with Prince Charles, described as the "Great Reset of the Global Economy". According to Guterres, the next stage after the Reset was supposed to be "Sustainable Development", which essentially entailed halting human social, economic, and cultural progress.

Fortunately for humanity, these plans were never destined to come true.

Sources:

F. William Engdahl, " Now Comes the Davos Global Economy Great Reset" (July 17, 2020)

Prince Charles's statement at the WEF's "The Great Reset" video conference (June 3, 2020) (12:37).

Statement by Antonio Guterres at the WEF video conference "The Great Reset" (June 3, 2020) (time 9:06).

End of my note.

The UN as a basis for the creation of a World Government

As noted earlier, at the 2-4 June 1962 Oslo Conference, the SI made its position even more clear, resolving that the ultimate aim of its member parties was world government which was to be achieved through the UN, membership of which was to be made universal (" The World Today: The Socialist Perspective", Declaration of the Socialist International endorsed at the Council Conference held in Oslo on 2-4 June 1962) and this was parroted by Labour and other Socialist parties (see also Ch. 3, p. 137).

[*] My note: The special status granted to the Socialist International at the United Nations has given the Fabian Society access to shaping both the UN's leadership and its agenda. A clear example of this influence was the election of Socialist International President Antonio Guterres as UN Secretary-General in 2017.

Key points of the special status of the Socialist International in the UN include:

Formal Status: The SI holds Category I consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), enabling it to participate in UN processes.

Policy Alignment: The SI consistently adopts resolutions supporting UN efforts, calling for stronger UN peacekeeping, compliance with ICJ rulings, and implementation of international law and treaties, as seen in their stances on Western Sahara and the Palestinian territories.

Advocacy & Reform: The SI advocates for strengthening the UN's role in global governance, pushing for reforms like limiting the Security Council veto and ensuring representation, reflecting its members' commitment to multilateralism.

High-Level Meetings: The SI holds meetings at the UN during High-Level Weeks (like the UNGA) to discuss global issues, coordinate with member parties, and support initiatives like the Pact for the Future, engaging world leaders and officials.

Historical Cooperation: Socialists have historically worked within international bodies, including the UN, to promote international cooperation, peace, and social justice, intersecting with liberal internationalism.

Influence through Member Governments: SI member parties, when in government (e.g., Spain's Pedro Snchez), actively engage with the UN, implementing policies aligned with social democratic values and global cooperation, bridging national policy and international norms.

In essence, the Socialist International acts as a persistent advocate and partner within the UN system, using its NGO status and political influence to promote social democratic principles and multilateral solutions to global problems.

Sources:

• Socialist International: Meeting of the SI Presidium and Heads of State & Government, United Nations, New York (September 25, 2024)

• Socialist International: Governance in a Global Society The Social Democratic Approach.

• Socialist International: Consultative status with the United Nations.

• Talbot Imlay, " Socialist Internationalism after 1914" (Chapter 10), 2017.

• Socialist International: General Congress Resolution. " With regard to Western Sahara, the Socialist International".

• Socialist International: Setting the global economy on a new path: For the global level.

End of my note.

The League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations, have been the key Milner-Fabian instruments for world government, with the Fabian-controlled SI as its mouthpiece. They faithfully followed the Fabians' "rationale" for promoting international government, namely that sovereign nation-states were responsible for war and that, therefore, in the interests of "world peace", "prosperity" and "progress'', independent nations were to be replaced with federations of nations as a first step towards a unified World State run by a World Government.

This "rationale" was formulated in very clear (though misleading) terms by Denis Healey, former member of the Fabian Society Executive Committee and chairman of the Fabian International Bureau Advisory Committee:

1. The only lasting guarantee of peace is general and comprehensive disarmament.

2. General and comprehensive disarmament is only possible with an advanced form of world government.

3. The only way to achieve world government is by a "steady strengthening" in both the scope and the authority of the United Nations (Healey, 1963, p. 1).

The problem with this elaborate but rather disjointed reasoning is that it is based on the premiss that disarmament is possible with world government without producing any evidence whatsoever that world government automatically and necessarily results in disarmament. In effect, it argues that world government must be established first, before there is disarmament, peace, etc. But a world government, once established, may perfectly well choose to retain armed forces to keep itself in power and suppress opposition, in which case:

(a) there would be no disarmament and

(b) any resulting "peace" may really be only a form of oppression.

Quite apart from the question as to who will run such a government, it is highly probable that a world government would insist on retaining armed forces in the same way as Marxists retained theirs after seizing power in Russia on the pretext that as long as opposition to the new regime existed, armed forces were necessary to suppress it. It is, of course, quite conceivable that an "advanced form of world government" would use psychological warfare to keep itself in power. But while this would lead to disarmament in terms of conventional weapons, the resulting "peace" would result in the same kind of dictatorship and oppression as one imposed by conventional war.

This deliberately misleading, Marxist-style logic was now used by the Fabians and their Labour front to campaign for world government. Neither of them told their followers that this was their main objective. The Labour Party campaigned as usual on issues like "health" and "social security benefits", insisting on "scientific" state control of the economy, while almost coincidentally reiterating its long-term belief in the establishment of east-west cooperation as the basis for a strengthened United Nation developing "towards world government" ("The New Britain'', Labour Party Election Manifesto, 1964).

The fact that a subversive Socialist outfit like Labour was elected into office in 1945 and 1964 even after the horrors of Socialism in Russia and elsewhere - shows

• not only how easy it is for a determined group of fraudsters to hijack the destiny of mankind,

• but it exposes the extraordinary degree of political ignorance and confusion in which the British people were kept by the Fabian masterminds.

Unfortunately, it also highlights the sheer incompetence (or fraudulence) of sections of the Conservative camp which allowed themselves to be driven to near-irrelevance by the Left without a fight. Lurching further to the left and becoming more Liberal became the Conservatives' established "defence strategy".

World government, of course, had been the Marxists' central aim all along, from Engels to Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky and others. As Socialists, the Fabians merely paralleled the Marxists (and the Milnerites) in their objectives. Hence while the Fabian West and the Communist East were ostensibly at loggerheads on secondary issues, they both pursued the same overarching Socialist goal, with the result that mankind's only "choice" was between:

• a World State run by Fabian Socialists and

• a World State run by Marxist-Leninist-Maoists.

By 1990, the West had become sufficiently Socialized for the two sides to become identical. The dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union in 1989-91 only meant that the political world had become one and was ready for a common policy and world government. This was acknowledged by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in his 7 December 1988 address to the United Nations General Assembly in which he said that "global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a New World Order".

The following is a list of selected Fabian publications promoting international/world government in various guises:

Works written by Fabian Society members:

• Herbert G. Wells, A Modem Utopia (1905).

• John Atkinson Hobson, Towards International Government (1915).

• Leonard Woolf, International Government (1916).

• Hessel Duncan Hall, The British Commonwealth of Nations (1920).

• Ivor Jenning, Barbara Wooton et al., Federal Tracts (1939).

• Ronald William Gordon MacKay, Federal Europe (1941).

• Leonard Woolf, The International Post-War Settlement (1944).

• Arthur Skeffington, "From Crown Colony to Commonwealth", Socialist International Information, 16 Oct. 1954.

• R. W. G. MacKay, Towards a United States of Europe (1961).

• Denis Healey, "A Labour Britain and the World", Fabian Tract No. 352 (1963).

Works by ex-members:

• Herbert G. Wells, The Idea of a League of Nations (1919).

• Herbert G. Wells, The Way to the League of Nations (1919).

• Herbert G. Wells, The Open Conspiracy (1928).

• Sir Arthur Salter, The United States of Europe (1931).

• Herbert G. Wells, The New World Order (1940).

Critical works by ex-members:

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948). Written with the Fabian Society's 1 OOth anniversary in mind, this was one of the few works by an ex-Fabian criticizing Fabian Socialism (referred to as " English Socialism" or "lngSoc" in the book). Although intended as a satirical work, Orwell's book betrays an intimate knowledge of the Fabian movement, its leadership, methods and aims, enabling it to make uncannily accurate predictions about a future Fabian-controlled society (for Orwell's membership of Fabian organizations see Martin, p. 466).

Works by Fabian collaborators (Milner Group members and associates):

• Edward M. House, Philip Dru Administrator: A Story for Tomorrow 1920-1935 (1912).

• Lionel Curtis, Commonwealth of God a.k.a. World Order (Civitas Dei) (1934-37).

• Clarence K. Streit, Union Now (1939).

• Clarence K. Streit, Union Now With Britain (1941).

Other Fabian publications:

• Fabian News

• New Statesman

• New Republic (USA)

• Foreign Affairs (USA), with W. Lippmann as one of its first contributors.

Some of the organizations and institutions established by Fabians and associated groups like Britain's Milner Group and America's Eastern Establishment, for the purpose of promoting world government:

1. Council for the Study of International Relations ("Bryce Group"), 1914.

2. International Agreements Committee, 1915.

3. League of Nations Society, 1915.

4. League of Nations Union, 1918.

5. League of Nations (LON), 1919.

6. International Labour Organization (ILO), 1919.

7. Court of International Justice (World Court), 1920.

8. Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) a.k.a. Chatham House, 1920. RIIA was created under the leadership of Lionel Curtis and it involved Fabians like R. H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes (Martin, p. 175) and Philip Noel-Baker (Quigley, 1981, p. 183) as well as Fabian collaborators/sympathizers like LSE Professor Arnold J. Toynbee who became Chatham House Director of Studies.

9. League for Industrial Democracy (LID), formerly Intercollegiate Socialist Society (USA), 1921.

10. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), formerly Institute of International Affairs (USA), 1921.

11. British Commonwealth, 1926.

12. Socialist Christian League, 1936.

13. Federal Union, 1938.

14. Federal Union Research Institute, 1939 ( Federal Trust after 1945, see below).

15. Fabian Colonial Bureau (Commonwealth Bureau from 1958), 1940.

16. Fabian International Bureau (FIB), 1941.

17. World Bank (IBRD), 1944.

18. Parliamentary Group for World Government (later World Parliament Association), 1945.

19. United Nations (UN), 1945.

20. International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1945.

21. Federal Trust for Education and Research, 1945, an offshoot of Federal Union run by R. W. G. ("Kim") MacKay of FIB.

22. World Council of Churches (WCC), 1948.

23. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949.

24. Council of Europe (CoE), 1949.

25. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), 1949.

26. Aspen Institute, 1950.

27. Socialist International, 1951.

28. One World Trust, 1951.

29. European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), later European Union (EU), 1951.

30. Fabian Africa Bureau (FAB), 1952. The Fabian Africa, Colonial (Commonwealth) and International Bureaux became key organizations for the creation of Labour colonial and international policy.

31. Bilderberg Group, 1952-54, created by Fabians Joseph Retinger, Hugh Gaitskell and Denis Healey in collaboration with the Rockefellers and others (Rockefeller, p. 411; Callaghan, pp. 203-4; Healey, 2006, pp. 196, 238-9).

32. Christian Socialist Movement, 1960.

33. Trilateral Commission (TC), created by David Rockefeller, 1973.

FABIANISM, DICTATORSHIP AND GENOCIDE

Those who imagine that a world run by Fabians would have been in any way better than one run by Leninists, Stalinists or Maoists, need to think twice. It will be recalled that Marx had taught that class struggle "necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat" (Marx, Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer, 5 Mar. 1852, MECW, vol. 39, pp. 62, 65) and both Marx and Engels saw dictatorship as a means of enforcing Communism. Lenin in his State and Revolution (1918) clearly indicated that while democracy was essential for removing Capitalism, it was only a passing stage in the transition from Capitalism to Communism and was itself to be eventually overcome and replaced with dictatorship.

While Fabianism does not openly advocate dictatorship and there is no doubt that many Fabians would vehemently reject the idea, the fact is that Fabian leaders Shaw and Webb were vocal and eloquent defenders of dictators like Lenin and Stalin. Their Society itself had been named after a dictator. In 1927, Shaw declared that Fabians must get the Socialist movement "out of its old democratic grooves" and that they, as Socialists, had "nothing to do with liberty". In his Fabian Autumn Lecture he declared that democracy had proved incompatible with Socialism (M. Cole, pp. 196-7).

Following his visit to the Soviet Union in the 1930s, Shaw said: "I was a Communist before Lenin and now that I have seen Russia I am more of a Communist than ever" (Shaw, 1 Aug. 1931). In 1933 he said he was a "more extreme communist" than Lenin (Shaw, 25 Mar. 1933).

Indeed, dictatorship is the logical and practical implication of the Fabian aim of establishing a technocracy controlled by an unelected body of LSE-trained "experts" planning, regulating and directing all aspects of human life, with the citizen serving as a mere cog in the machinery of the state. It is not for nothing that the Fabian leadership regarded Stalinism as "applied Fabianism".

Moreover, following in the footsteps of Marx and Engels, Fabian leaders like Shaw believed in the creation of a new, "superior" type of human being to replace the old and were leading figures in the Eugenics movement that advocated the extermination of those deemed "unfit". Shaw's preoccupation with this subject is evident from many of his statements:

"... what we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it" (Preface, On The Rocks, 1933);

"We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people" (Shaw, The Daily Express, 4 Mar. 1910, quoted in Stone, 2002);

"Our question is not to kill or not to kill, but how to select the right people to kill" (Holroyd, vol. 3, p. 253). Similar statements were made by Sidney Webb and other leading Fabians.

The Socialist regimes of Russia, China and Eastern Europe were responsible for the systematic murder of millions of people. As Western Europe (including Britain) was taken over by a nonviolent, gradualist form of Socialism of the Fabian variety, the methods employed there to perpetrate genocide have been more subtle, but no less devastating. In particular, the extermination (or ethnic-cleansing) of Europe's indigenous populations is being carried out gradually, through deliberate measures such as

• the simultaneous promotion of (Fabian-pioneered) birth control and

• state-imposed mass immigration from outside Europe.

As the steady increase of the immigrant element logically leads to the reduction of the indigenous element, the latter's final disappearance is only a matter of time.

Indeed, the Fabian controlled Labour Party has admitted that its policy of mass immigration was intended to make Britain "more multicultural" and a number of other Fabian organizations have been promoting immigration and multiculturalism Sustained mass immigration not only makes a society more multicultural, it also makes it more and more multi-racial, diluting the indigenous element until its complete disappearance. This effectively amounts to racial extermination or genocide.

One of the first Fabians to advocate the extermination of the white race was Bernard Shaw himself who in the 1930s called for the introduction of collective farms for the fusion of races, insisting that the future belonged "to the mongrel, not to the Junker [young German aristocrat]" (Holroyd, vol. 3, pp. 283-4). Later Fabians like Roy Jenkins have been more diplomatic but have done their best to suppress opposition to mass immigration and population replacement.

FABIANISM AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE WEST

Although the original Fabians were either atheists or at the most "Christian" Socialists, they have always had a soft spot for Islam and its Cobdenite teachings of "universal brotherhood" [*] and, above all, its drive for global domination and world government [**].

My note:

[*] Richard Cobden, a textile manufacturer and one of the leaders of the liberal movement, was an activist in the Universal Brotherhood League, which used Christian rhetoric as a cover for promoting the idea of a World State.

[**] The establishment of a Worldwide Caliphate is the ultimate goal of Islam, which is based on two key principles:

1. The necessity of the worldwide victory of Islam, as stated in the 193rd verse of the second surah of the Quran: "Fight them until persecution is no more, and religion becomes [exclusively] for Allah." Source: Al-Islam.org.

Islamic theologian Ibn Kathir explains in his commentary: "So that the religion of Allah becomes dominant above all other religions." Source: Holy Quran website.

2. Caliphate as an ideal form of government. Traditional Islamic thinkers consider the caliphate (a system of Islamic government in which the caliph is the spiritual and temporal leader of all Muslims) to be the best form of government. Source: Abdul Qadeem Zalloom, "The Ruling System in Islam", 1996. Chapter 2 "The Islamic State", subchapter " The system of ruling in Islam is the Khilafah".

Thus, the establishment of a Worldwide Caliphate is the goal of traditional Islam, not just radical Islamic movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Consequently, with regard to Islam's ultimate goal, there is no distinction between "moderate" and "radical" Muslims.

End of my note.

H. G. Wells praised Islam in his writings such as A Short History of the World (1922) and Shaw himself wrote that Mohammed was "a great Protestant religious force", like George Fox or Wesley (Shaw, Letter to the Reverend Ensor Walters, 1933, in Laurence, vol. 4, p. 305). Other leading Fabian apologists for Islam were Annie Besant (1932) and Bertrand Russell (1945).

Shaw's Fabian Window carried the logo "Remould it [the World] nearer to the heart's desire", which was taken from a poem by the Muslim Omar Khayyam. Khayyam was in vogue with the "progressive" faction of the British intelligentsia at the time and the Fabians were no exception (Willie Utley gave a copy of Khayyam's Rubaiyat to his daughter). What is particularly significant about Khayyam is that he was claimed by some as a follower of a cult calling itself " Sufism".

For many centuries, Sufism had served as an instrument for softening up non-Muslim populations and preparing them for penetration by the real Islam. It was a godsend for the Fabians who liked to dabble in "mysticism" and were keen supporters of alternative cults like "Christian" Socialism, "Theosophy", Gurdjieff's Fourth Way, Free Masonry and similar projects which they infiltrated and used for their own agendas.

As Fabians controlled culture and education, it can be no mere coincidence that Sufism played a prominent role in the " New Age" counter-culture (or anti-culture) movement of the 1960s and 70s which the Fabians had pioneered in the early 1900s.

While Sidney Webb was serving as chairman of the LCC Technical Instruction Committee, Lord Reay, former chairman of the London School Board and president of University College and the British Academy (all Fabian-dominated), instigated the creation of a School of Oriental Studies in the University of London (Reay Report, 1908). The school was established in 1916 with Denison Ross, professor of Persian and former principal of the Madrasah Muslim College, Calcutta, as director. In particular, the school was connected with the Aligarh movement which spawned the Muslim League and the Pakistan movement.

The history of Sufism and Islam in Britain

Among key figures associated with the school was professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (1921-30) Sir Thomas Arnold. Arnold had earlier taught at Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College (Aligarh) and Government College (Lahore) and authored The Preaching of Islam (1896). While at Government College, he promoted Muhammad Iqbal, a lawyer who combined the teachings of medieval Sufi poet Rumi with Islamic revivalism. As president of the All-India Muslim League, Iqbal pioneered the idea of a Muslim state in the 1930s and collaborated with Fabian Society member Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the creation of Pakistan.

Sufism and Islam were also promoted by Arnold's disciple Margaret Smith (University of London) and many others.

While Fabian Annie Besant was busy preaching "Theosophy" and anti-British politics to the Indians, various brands of "reformed" Islam were being planted in Britain.

In 1913, another Indian lawyer of the name Kwaja Kamal-ud-Din, established the Woking Muslim Mission which was instrumental in converting many Britons to Islam, including Lord Headly, who wrote A Western Awakening to Islam (1914).

In 1916, the London "Sufi Order of the West" was founded by the Indian Hazrat Inayat Khan, who taught that prophet Mohammed had brought a "divine message of democracy" (The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan). H. G. Wells himself couldn't have done better.

Following in the footsteps of Khan was Idries Shah, the chief architect of the Sufi deception in Britain and elsewhere. In what must have been one of the biggest hoaxes in history, this Indian born impostor made out to be in possession of "secret knowledge", launching a massive, worldwide campaign to promote himself and his "Sufi" ideas which he fed to millions of gullible westerners with the help of his Octagon Press, a publishing house he set up in 1960. In 1965, he founded the " Institute for Cultural Research'', which had the main function of promoting Islamic culture. Another Shah outfit was the Society for Sufi Studies.

Shah's main promoters in Britain were a clique of influential left-wing radicals with connections to the Fabians and their subversive counterculture. It included Robert Graves, a fiction writer and friend of Edward Carpenter and other leading Fabians, and Doris Lessing, who was mixing with the crowd from the Fabian Left Book Club before "progressing" to Communism and Sufism, and also contributed to Shah's Institute for Cultural Research.

Just as the pre-war generation had been brainwashed into believing that "Capitalism was dead" and the promised Kingdom of Communism was nigh, the post-war generation was subjected by the Fabian-Shah propaganda machine to thousands of pro-Sufi publications, articles, lectures, academic courses, seminars and workshops, which thoroughly indoctrinated it with the idea that Western civilization was "inferior" or "dead" and in need of being "saved" or replaced by Sufism, i.e., Islam. Once the culturally uprooted and confused intellectual classes who were still under the effect of the opium of Marxism-Fabianism had been softened up by this massive pro-Sufi propaganda, the door was open for Islam to penetrate British society at will. A prime example of the success this campaign has achieved is Prince Charles's overt support for Islam, which began in the late 1980s (see Ch. 10, lslamization).

The political activity of the Fabians to Islamize Great Britain

Parallel developments leading up to Islamization were also taking place in the political sphere. In 1948, Fabian Prime Minister Clement Attlee (Labour party [*]) passed the British Nationality Act allowing all inhabitants of the British Empire to enter, live and work in the UK without restriction. Ostensibly, the initial official policy was one of "assimilation" of the immigrant population, even though no evidence exists of any serious efforts to actually implement this.

[*] My note: The Fabian Society was organized "for reflection and discussion", not for political campaigning, which it delegated to its two influential political bodies:

• The British Labour Party, tasked with implementing Fabian projects within the United Kingdom;

• The Socialist International, responsible for implementing Fabian projects in countries where left-wing parties members of the International are in power.

Thanks to this tactic, the activities and influence of the Fabian Society and the Fabian movement it founded remained virtually invisible to outsiders.

End of my note.

Moreover, in 1966, Home Secretary, former Fabian Society Chairman and future President of the European Commission, Roy Jenkins (Labour), initiated a shift in government policy from "assimilation" of immigrants to state-promoted "cultural diversity" or multiculturalism (Jenkins, 1966).

This subversive policy was carried on by Labour while in office between 1974 and 1979, and behind the scenes during Conservative rule between 1979 and 1997.

With Labour back in office in 1997, Fabian Tony Blair's "New Labour" was able to impose an official policy of mass immigration deliberately intended to make Britain more multicultural.

To understand just how deliberate it has all been, we only need to consider that mass immigration from culturally distinct areas leads to multiculturalism in the receiving society and multiculturalism with a dominant Islamic element necessarily leads to lslamization.

As:

(a) a large percentage of the immigrant population in the 1950s and 60s came from Muslim-dominated areas like Pakistan, Kashmir and East Africa,

(b) and no attempt has ever been made to properly assimilate (i.e., Christianize) the immigrant population,

the Islamization of Britain's indigenous society was entirely predictable and a matter of time.

Unless we are prepared to believe that Fabians are unaware of the consequences of their own actions (highly unlikely, considering that Fabian policies are the result of careful research and planning by leading experts), it must be accepted that Fabian policy in this regard has been deliberate.

In fact, such a policy is entirely consistent with the Fabian aim of "reconstructing" society and of "remoulding the world" nearer to the Fabian heart's desire. Moreover, Tony Blair's own adviser has admitted that the Fabian regime's policy of making Britain more multicultural was deliberate ("Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser", Daily Telegraph, 5 May 2011).

As shown below, the Labour Party and other Fabian organizations have specifically promoted Muslim interests; leading Fabians have been key figures in the promotion of Western dependence on Muslim Arab investments and loans, etc.

Promoting Islam in the Academic Sphere

In the academic field, too, the promotion of Islam can be traced back to Fabian-dominated institutions like

• the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (University of Oxford),

• the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),

• the Centre of Islamic Studies (University of London), etc.

Incredibly, SOAS departments like that of the languages and cultures of the Near and Middle East actually run undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and courses in Sufism. According to its website, "As the primary expression of Muslim mysteries and spirituality, Sufism is indispensable for any deeper understanding of Islam". "Understanding Islam" is the ultimate goal of such programmes.

Inevitably, Sufism crops up in LSE circles, too. In 2005, a "Sufi" website was launched by one "Waleed Khalid, London School of Economics" (thesufi.com, last accessed 12 Jul. 2012).

In its contribution to the 2011 Interfaith Week, the LSE Students Union paper, The Beaver, carried an article on Islam outlining love as a "core aspect of the religion", claiming that the title of the prophet Mohammed is "the Beloved of God", that the aim of Islamic tradition is to "love God and achieve closeness to Him" and quoting the Sufi poet Rumi to back up those claims ("Living in an Interfaith World", The Beaver, 22 Nov. 2011). The author appears to be unaware that Rumi and his teachings are not in any way representative and that Islam is generally seen as submission to the supposed "law of Allah" or Sharia which aims to create a worldwide Islamic theocracy or dictatorship.

In his introduction to Idries Shah's The Sufis, Robert Graves claimed that the Sufis were "commonly mistaken for a Moslem sect", but that they were "bound by no religious dogma". According to Graves, "Sufi" is "no more that a nickname, like "Quaker, and a Sufi "may be as common in the West as in the East, and may come dressed as a general, a peasant, a merchant ... a housewife, anything". Similarly, Doris Lessing, who describes herself as a disciple of Shah, claims that the name "Sufi" is "not liked" by Sufis.

If this is the case, how are we to explain the fact that the world's bookshops and the Internet are infested with thousands of publications containing the word "Sufi", which Sufis themselves (see Shah) have put into circulation and which they themselves claim to be of Arabic origin?

If Sufis dislike being called "Sufis" this can only be because they are Muslims and they naturally would prefer to be called by their true name!

Sufism is the Trojan Horse of Islam

The identity of Sufism, in the form propagated by the likes of Shah, with Islam explains why much has been made of the claim that Shah belonged to a "male line of descent from the prophet Mohammed" (Robert Graves) and why Sufi publications, including Shah's own, are peppered with Arabic terminology and references to Islam, Mohammed and the Koran.

The pro-Islamic agenda is incontrovertibly demonstrated by the Sufi apologists' vehement denial of the patent fact that, just as Islamic philosophy owed a lot to Aristotle -indeed, most elements of "Islamic" culture from science to architecture were adopted wholesale from the non-Arab cultures conquered and subjugated by Islam -Sufi teachings are really based on Christianized neo-Platonic traditions (Smith, 1931). Being dominant at the time, they were hijacked by Muslim rulers in the 8th and 9th centuries to lend a veneer of spirituality and cultural respectability to Islam (note, p. 493; for the Classical origins of Islamic philosophy see Walzer, 1950, Rosenthal, 1975).

In Lessing's own words, "The Sufis may plant a 'root' in a culture" ("The Sufis and Idries Shah", 1997). Exactly what kind of root they planted in British, European and American culture is becoming more evident by the day. This state of affairs, of course, is closely related with the retreat of Christianity and the loss of the Western world's spiritual heritage. Had the Church not chosen to neglect its Classical heritage and become an extension of Socialism (i.e., atheism) the teachings and practices currently associated with "Islamic Sufism" would have remained an integral part of Christian tradition to this day and the likes of Shah might have found it more difficult to use their Arabian tales to attack Christianity and glorify Islam. At any rate, far from having anything to do with authentic spirituality, Islamic Sufism has a long history of association with militant Islam (see Ch. 10, Islamization).

Like other key British institutions, the Fabian-founded LSE with its closely linked Department of International Relations (set up by Fabian Lord Haldane and his friend and Rothschild associate Sir Ernest Cassel in the 1920s) and European Institute has been running "research", courses, seminars, workshops, lectures and other events promoting "advanced thinking" on the EU and EU-Muslim relations.

In 2010, a new pro-Islamic outfit going by the name of " Centre for Middle Eastern Studies" was added to the LSE arsenal. The pro-Islamic stand of such institutions is demonstrated by their receipt of vast sums of money from Islamic regimes ("Libya and the LSE: Large Arab gifts to universities lead to 'hostile' teaching", Daily Telegraph, 3 Mar. 2011). The LSE's current chairman, Peter Sutherland, is a key promoter of Islamization in Europe (see Ch. 10).

In her groundbreaking expose " Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" (2005), Bat Ye'or correctly identifies the 1973 Arab oil embargo and the resulting pressure put by oil-producing Arab states on oil dependent European countries as the key event that triggered the Islamization process.

However, for a more complete picture other factors need to be taken into consideration, particularly the fact that the elements initiating and driving the Islamization process were identical to those behind the Milner-Fabian Conspiracy. The pro-Arab "European Economic Community" was a Fabian Socialist-dominated organization which had a Fabian Socialist agenda -as, incidentally, had the pro-Arab Soviet Union.

Moreover, as we have just seen, the roots of Islamization had been planted earlier and thousands of Westerners had been brainwashed into accepting Islam, disguised as "Sufism", long before.

By the 1950s and 60s Muslims were already arriving in Britain and other parts of Europe in their thousands.

Islamization as a tool for creating a Global Government

Clearly, the general aim has been to facilitate the advance of Islam and bring about the collapse of Western civilization in preparation for its reconstruction along Fabian lines.

In the final analysis, Fabian promotion of Islam is a logical consequence of the Fabian drive for global government. Global government requires global society and global society requires the elimination of cultural and religious differences and tensions.

The Clash of Civilizations is inconvenient to the Fabian Socialist agenda, hence it is being pre-empted by mixing cultures, religions and races. In addition, Socialism regards Christianity as "reactionary" and its arch-enemy, Islam, as "revolutionary". In consequence, while ostensibly opposing the Clash of Civilizations, Socialism simultaneously exploits it to the full for its own agenda.

It is of course legitimate to ask whether promoting an antidemocratic and anti-Western system like Islam is not ultimately against the interests of Socialism.

The answer is that, somewhat naively, Socialism hopes to Socialize Islam in the same way it has Socialized Christianity. To be sure, Arab Socialism, a cross between Socialism and Islam, as promoted by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has shown what Socialism can achieve in this regard (see also Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.). However, more recent attempts to export Western democracy and "Europeanize" Islamic states appear to achieve the opposite result (see the failed "Arab Spring" Project, pp. 476-7, below).

The Islamization of Britain, therefore, can only be properly understood as part of a worldwide Fabian drive to dilute and eventually eliminate Western civilization by means of Islamization. Indeed, we find that even outside the UK, individuals and organizations with LSE and other Fabian connections have been active in a rising number of projects promoting Islamization.

Driving forces behind the Islamization of Europe

One of the driving forces behind Europe's lslamization process has been Spanish socialist Javier Solana [*], a nephew of historian Salvador de Madariaga who was a League of Nations official and speaker under Fabian auspices (Martin, p. 459). This again exposes the Left's hand in the process.

[*] My note: The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, one of whose leaders is Javier Solana, is a member of the Fabian Socialist International. This explains the active participation of Spanish socialists in the implementation of the Fabian Society's projects.

End of my note.

In the 1960s, Solana graduated from the Socialist hotbed Complutense University of Madrid, after which he studied and taught in the USA where there can be little doubt that, as leader of left-wing university organizations, he came into contact with Fabian outfits like the League for Industrial Democracy (America's own Fabian Society).

As Spanish Foreign Minister, Solana in 1995 convened the First Euro-Mediterranean Conference of EU Foreign Ministers at which it was resolved to strengthen relations with the Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East. For this purpose the conference established the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) a.k.a. Barcelona or Euro-Mediterranean Process.

In 2000, the Catalan Socialist Narcis Serra, a former LSE research fellow and later Spanish Defence Minister and Vice-President of the Government, was appointed president of the Barcelona Centre for International Relations (CIDOB). One of Spain's most influential think tanks, CIDOB pioneered Arab World Studies in Catalonia and is one of the institutions training researchers working in the field who are at the forefront of Europe's Islamization movement.

CIDOB was later joined by Jordi Vaquer i Fanes as director of the foundation. Vaquer holds a PhD in International Relations from the LSE where he wrote a thesis entitled Spanish Policy towards Morocco (1986-2002): The Impact of EC/EU Membership.

In 2004, CIDOB president Serra, whose main interests are global governance and foreign policy, set up the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (IBEI) which employs pro-Islamic figures such as LSE graduate Fred Halliday (author of Islam and the Myth of Confrontation, 2003).

CIDOB collaborates with other pro-Islamic organizations like:

• Asia House (est. 2001),

• European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed, est. 2002),

• Arab House and International Institute of Arab and Islamic World Studies (CA-IEAM, est. 2006),

• Mediterranean House (est. 2009), etc.

CIDOB enjoys among others the support of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (responsible for the creation of all of the above), the EU, Spanish Agency of International Cooperation, Spanish Ministry of Defence, Catalan Government, Barcelona City Council and a wide network of related authorities, organizations and institutions in Spain and other Mediterranean countries (especially Italy and France) involved in the lslamization process.

CIDOB is also responsible for a number of prominent publications promoting Islamization under the guise of ''understanding", "dialogue", etc., such as the annual Mediterranean Yearbook, Bibliographical Bulletin of the Arab World and CIDOB Magazine of Foreign Affairs.

In particular, CIDOB and similar Continental organizations set up or infiltrated by the LSE and other Fabian-controlled outfits, are partners of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF), set up in May 2004 at the Mid-Term Meeting of Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Ministers in Dublin with the object of promoting cultural and religious links between Europe and the Islamic Arab world. With a budget of 5 million, ALF has been able to set up branches in 43 countries operating at the centre of a network of over 3000 like-minded organizations. A number of LSE teachers and graduates around the world have received the Anna Lindh award for the study of European foreign policy on pro-lslamization lines.

The close links between the Islamization of Europe and the lslamization of Britain are demonstrated by the actions of the Fabian Socialist (Labour) regime of 1997-2010.

MI6 and MI5 as instruments of the Fabian Islamization of Europe

In 1998, under Fabian Prime Minister Tony Blair, MI6 was instructed to train and arm the Islamic Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in collaboration with US President Bill Clinton's CIA and selected al-Qaeda operatives, in order to start an armed insurrection against Christian Serbia and provide a pretext for military intervention. In the following year, Serbia was bombed by order of NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana himself, architect of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) a.k.a. Barcelona Process, responsible for the lslamization of Europe.

Among the al-Qaeda operatives recruited by MI6 for its Kosovo operations was Haroon Rashid Aswat, believed to have masterminded the London bombings 7 July 2005 ("Day Side", FOX News, 29 Jul. 2005).

Among other bodies that recruited Muslim fundamentalists under Blair's Fabian regime were MI5 and the Territorial Army ("Al Qaeda may have infiltrated British Security Service", FOX News, 1 Aug. 2009; "Territorial Army infiltrated by Al-Qaeda'', The Sunday Times, 17 Oct. 2004).

[*] My note: The Territorial Army a volunteer reserve component of the British Army, consisting of part-time soldiers who periodically joined the regular army for national defense and overseas operations.

End of my note.

While the intelligence services provided false information on Iraq's non-existent "weapons of mass destruction'', they have been suspiciously silent on Saudi Arabia's own nuclear weapons programme. Nor have they ever been investigated for their activities in Yugoslavia and their links to al-Qaeda and its foreign sponsors like the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence.

Moreover, the evidence shows systematic sponsorship of Islamic schools, cultural centres, charities and mosques; appointment of Muslims and Muslim sympathizers to key positions in local councils, social services, police forces, Labour Party, government, etc.

Fabians promote Muslims to leading government positions

In 1998, under the same Fabian regime, Nazir Ahmed became Britain's first Muslim life peer.

In 2000, Tony Blair infamously stated in an interview with Muslim News: "There is a lot of misunderstanding about Islam. It is a deeply reflective, peaceful and very beautiful religious faith and I think it would be hugely helpful if people from other religious faiths knew more about it" (Muslim News, March 2000).

In 2001, just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Blair said that links with the Muslim community should be deepened. He also claimed that the attacks were not the work of Islamic terrorists ("Blair meets British Muslims", Guardian, 27 Sept. 2001).

In 2004, the UK Foreign Office (headed by Fabian Jack Straw) set up the Engaging with the Islamic World (EIW) Group consisting of 18 civil servants, including Muslims, and led by the pro-Muslim Frances Guy. As Ambassador to Lebanon, Guy later praised Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a supporter of Iran with links to Hezbollah terrorists, as a "true man of religion", adding that the world needed more like him. In 2007, the Foreign Office merged EIW with its Counter Terrorism (CT) programme to form the "Countering Terrorism and Radicalization Programme".

In January 2006, after quoting the Sufi Sheikh Ba, Frances Guy declared that bringing Turkey into the European Union was a way of binding these two great religions together and "proving" that there is no clash of civilizations" (Guy, 2006).

In May 2006, the Foreign Office held a conference entitled "Challenging Stereotypes in Europe and the Islamic World" at Wilton Park (the Foreign Office executive agency in Steyning, West Sussex) to discuss "Islamophobia" in the UK and related issues. The Conference was convened at the request of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and was attended by Guy's EIW Group.

In July 2006, the Foreign Office (headed by Fabian Margaret Beckett) sponsored a large gathering of European Islarnist organizations in Turkey which concluded that all Muslims in Europe should abide by the Koran as a means of "enriching Europe" and setting an example for non-Muslims to follow (Pargeter, pp. 198-9; Topkapi Declaration, 2 Jul 2006, Muslims of Europe Conference, Conference Declarations, http://ammanmessage.com).

In August 2006, Tony Blair praised the Koran and Islamic imperialism as "progressive", describing the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or Pagan lands as "breathtaking". In Blair's opinion Islam led the world in discovery, art and culture, adding the usual left-wing canard that Muslims were the "standard-bearers of tolerance" (Speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, 1 Aug. 2006; news.bbc.co.uk). In January 2007, Blair repeated the above statement in a Foreign Affairs article ("A Battle for Global Values", Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007).

In June 2007, under Fabian Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Shahid Malik became Britain's first Muslim Minister, being appointed International Development Minister (and later Justice Minister, Home Office Minister and Minister for Race, Faith and Community Cohesion).

In November 2007, at the Opening Ceremony at the Bruges Campus, College of Europe, Bruges, the Fabian Foreign Secretary David Miliband spoke in favour of a global and open Europe, immigration, strong, unbreakable ties with Europe's Muslim neighbour countries and inclusion of Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa (www.coleurope.eu; also BBC News, 15 Nov. 2007).

Also under the Fabian (Labour) government, the Muslim Aaquil Ahmed was appointed as head of the BBC Religion and Ethics and commissioning editor for Religion TV ("Muslim Aaquil Ahmed chosen as BBC's head of religion", The Times, 12 May 2009).

Similarly, the Muslim Mohamed Ali Harrath, a Tunisian immigrant, was appointed adviser to the Scotland Yard on combating extremism and terrorism despite the fact that he was a co-founder of the Tunisian Islamic Front, a fundamentalist organization advocating the establishment of an Islamic state in Tunisia and was wanted by the Interpol for terrorism-related offences ("Sack Mohamed Ali Harrath, Scotland Yard told", The Times, 16 Dec. 2008; "Muslim Channel chief held over terror allegations'', The Times, 26 Jan. 2010).

In January 2013, Labour appointed Sadiq Khan, a Muslim member of the Fabian Society executive, Shadow Minister for London and leader of Labour's election campaign.

And so it goes on.

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