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Communists 'tried to infiltrate British school system'
The Guardian ^ | Fri 1 Jul 2005

Posted on 11/08/2025 5:33:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

MI5 believed a hardcore of around 750 teachers was attempting to spread communist propaganda in British schools in the wake of the second world war, documents released today show.

A secret MI5 memo written in August 1949, released by the National Archives at Kew, west London, charts apparent efforts to recruit teachers and infiltrate the leadership of the National Union of Teachers.

The document, which traces a Soviet-backed drive to free worldwide education from capitalist "enslavement" back to 1920, also reports attempts to penetrate teaching in British colonies in the early post-war period.

The report was written against a backdrop of positive vetting by Clement Atlee's government to identify communists in the British civil service and military.

The document compares the extent of communist penetration in the education system elsewhere, particularly eastern European countries within the Soviet sphere of influence.

The memo highlights how education had been key to the previous year's communist coup in Czechoslovakia, which effectively consolidated the Eastern Bloc for the next four decades.

MI5 noted that Czech school textbooks had been rewritten and non-communist students excluded from membership of the national student union.

According to MI5, which had heavily infiltrated the British Communist party, in 1946 teachers accounted for 755 of the 38,766 known members.

By the time the report was written in August 1949, MI5 estimated that there had been "little change", with an estimated 700 to 750 teachers in the party.

"The British Communist party has attached considerable importance both to the recruitment of teachers and to the safeguarding of membership particulars of the individuals in order to protect those individuals from possible political reprisals," MI5 observes.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: britain; england; successfully; uk

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1 posted on 11/08/2025 5:33:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Looks like they succeeded.


2 posted on 11/08/2025 5:33:42 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Mission accomplished.


3 posted on 11/08/2025 5:34:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They succeeded here too.


4 posted on 11/08/2025 5:34:38 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh that’s a riot to describe this as a historical event. Here in the U.S. our education system is stuffed to the brim with commies and psychopaths. Look at how many of the people who celebrated Kirk’s death were described as “educators.”


5 posted on 11/08/2025 5:35:52 PM PST by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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It started with Howard Zinn’s book.


6 posted on 11/08/2025 5:36:26 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tried??


7 posted on 11/08/2025 5:37:12 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is a ruse.

The schools were already taken over by the Fabian Society and those Fabian Socialists weren’t about to get usurped by the Communist Party.

The Fabians unsurprisingly rolled the Communists like it was nothing.


8 posted on 11/08/2025 5:46:24 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: dfwgator

Yep and they got the Zinn BS distributed throughout the schools. I fostered a generation of kids who were ashamed of their country especially girls.


9 posted on 11/08/2025 5:52:28 PM PST by iamgalt ( )
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To: dfwgator

“They succeeded here too.”

For awhile, who knew. Civil War II here is changing by the year, for the longest time it seemed that the left and right would have some kind of civil discourse but NYC outright won. Mamdani has promoted a form of communism yet he is an outspoken muzzie. The Chicoms slaughter the muzzies all the time and Russia doesn’t tolerate it either. Yet the devil worshipers wreak havoc and murder all around the globe.

This will not end well in NYC.


10 posted on 11/08/2025 5:54:00 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Tried?”


11 posted on 11/08/2025 5:54:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Communists HAVE infiltrated the US school system.

At ALL levels.


12 posted on 11/08/2025 5:57:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: iamgalt

Related

https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/08/debunking-left-wing-historian-howard-zinn-is-like-shooting-fish-in-a-barrel/


13 posted on 11/08/2025 6:02:03 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: dfwgator

They got beat out by the muzzies.


14 posted on 11/08/2025 6:19:31 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Yuri Bezmenov warned us: https://youtu.be/IQPsKvG6WMI?si=1-icrXznV9DGPPeb
15 posted on 11/08/2025 6:20:10 PM PST by CtBigPat (Thank you, JimRob. )
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To: dfwgator

Unfortunately.


16 posted on 11/08/2025 6:20:31 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dfwgator

Sad but true.


17 posted on 11/08/2025 6:20:40 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Paladin2

It’s time for America to go full Pinochet.


18 posted on 11/08/2025 6:21:12 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican

They did it. And here in the USA as well.


19 posted on 11/08/2025 6:23:14 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: combat_boots

Yet somehow that bastard lie filled textbooks ended up in schools all across the country.


20 posted on 11/08/2025 6:40:01 PM PST by iamgalt ( )
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