by Tom Bower
Rothschild’s bank 276
Rowntree Foundation 174
Royal College of Medicine 180
Royall, Baroness Janet 235, 251, 255–6, 270–1
RT (formerly Russia Today) (TV station) 158, 188, 242
Rudd, Amber 309, 327
Russia 6, 36, 105, 124, 131, 133, 153, 158, 176–7, 190, 199, 214, 215, 233, 281, 296, 309, 322–3, 330
Ryan, Joan 334
Sacks, Jonathan 271, 326, 333
Sainsbury, Lord 118
Salah, Raed 154, 193
Salisbury, Wiltshire 322–3, 330
Sandell, Mark 273
Sandelson, Neville 65, 77
Sanders, Bernie 242
Sands, Bobby 62, 63
Sarkocy, Ján 96–8, 323
Saudi Arabia 159, 200, 307
Scargill, Arthur 15, 23, 70, 87–8
Schneider, James 227
School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) 232–3
Scottish Labour Party 58, 218, 292–3, 313
Scottish National Party (SNP) 164, 218, 254, 311, 313
SDP see Social Democratic Party
Serwotka, Mark 175, 187, 228, 333
Seven Jewish Children (play) 236
Sex Worker Open University 290
Seymour-Whiteley, Lynton 3
Shah, Naseem 245–7, 270, 276, 323
Shanley, Max 235
Shapiro, David 65
Shaw, George Bernard 300
Shawcroft, Christine 228, 330
Shelter 309
Shi’a Muslims 155, 158
Shiner, Phil 273
Shinwell, Manny 239
Shipley, Peter 67, 68
Short, Claire 115
Sibthorpe, Gavin 208
Siddiq, Tulip 179, 312
Simon, Barbara 20, 49, 52, 60
Simon, Siôn 302
Simons, Josh 223, 240, 249, 270, 276
Sinn Féin 82, 96, 117, 196
Six-Day War (1967) 131
Sizer, Stephen 154
Skegness, Lincolnshire 13–14, 16, 149–50
Skinner, Dennis 83, 97, 241, 275
Skripal, Sergei and Yulia 322–3
Sky TV 194; Sky News 266
Slocombe, Kevin 248, 264, 274
Small, Hugh 6–7
Smeeth, Ruth 271–2, 294–5, 326, 329
Smith, Alec 18–19
Smith, Cat 167, 266
Smith, Chris 82, 109, 119
Smith, Jacqi 154
Smith, John 114
Smith, Owen 262, 278, 280, 282–5
Snow, Jon 318
SNP see Scottish Nationalist Party Social Democratic Party (SDP) 61, 67–8, 76, 77
social media 154, 159, 176, 201, 227, 236, 245, 269, 280, 309, 326
Socialist Action group 80–1; Socialist Action 140
Socialist Appeal 230
Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) 145
Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (SCLV) 46, 49, 53, 217
Socialist Organiser 46, 47
Socialist Workers Party 173, 291, 317
Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) 99
Soubry, Anna 268
South America 11, 118, 152
Soviet Union 105, 107, 131, 177
Spectator 183, 236, 284, 329
Stalin, Josef 17, 73, 130–1, 135, 177, 216, 301
Starmer, Keir 310, 338
Stiglitz, Joseph 182
Stolliday, John 328
Stop the War Coalition 129–35, 154, 176, 193, 214, 221, 224, 231, 233, 238, 250
Straw, Jack 183
strikes 14–16, 23, 26–7, 29, 33, 37, 40–8, 57, 60, 62, 70, 86–8, 94–5, 182, 187, 230, 243, 297–8, 320
Styles, Harry 309
Sugar, Alan 209
Sun 168, 301, 323
Sunday People 97
Sunday Telegraph 218
Sunni Muslims 158
Sylvester, Rachel 217
Syria 158, 211, 213, 215, 219, 221–2, 224, 281, 291–2
Syriza 163
Taaffe, Linda 230
Taaffe, Peter 60
‘Taking Control of the Party’ (Clark & Lansman) 225
Taliban 134, 178, 272
Tamimi, Dr Azzam 237
Tapper, Dawn 9, 10
Target 82 group 53, 62
Tarry, Sam 289
Tebbit, Norman 90
terrorism, terrorists 82, 89–90, 93, 96, 104, 126–9, 133–4, 136, 143, 158–9, 178, 192–3, 214, 236, 271, 291, 306–7, 310–11, 319, 323, 332
Terrorism Act (2006) 292
TGWU see Transport and General Workers’ Union Thatcher, Margaret 23, 33, 43, 45, 47–9, 58, 70, 72–3, 79–80, 85, 87, 89–90, 92–4, 100–1, 108, 114, 164, 196, 205, 315
Thompson, E.P. 75
Thompson, Marsha-Jane 228
Thorn Electrical 61
Thornberry, Emily 179, 213–14, 226, 241, 244, 259, 260, 266, 313
Thornett, Alan 46
The Times 68, 183, 217, 299
Today (radio programme) 272
Tower Hamlets, London 228
Toxteth, Liverpool 81
Toynbee, Polly 198, 299, 315
trade unions 14–16, 18–19, 21, 24, 29, 39–40, 43, 48–9, 60–1, 68, 70, 79, 86–8, 94–5, 163, 182, 209, 226, 294–5, 320
Trades Union Congress (TUC) 65, 195
Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) 24, 40
Tressell, Robert, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists 2–3
Tribune 17
Trickett, Jon 227, 241, 245
Trident 189, 190, 197, 200, 205, 216, 226, 281, 282
Troops Out Movement 26, 95
Trotsky, Leon 17, 27, 98, 132, 147; History of the Russian Revolution 14
Trotskyist Alliance for Workers’ Liberty 228, 286
Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party 115, 130, 230
Troubled Families 310
Trump, Donald 294–5, 315, 322
TUC see Trades Union Congress
Turkey 106–8, 241, 258
Twigg, Stephen 118
Ukip 147, 165, 223, 225, 298
Ukraine 177, 214
Umunna, Chuka 188–9, 241, 315, 334
Underhill, Reg 54
Unison (trade union) 167, 171, 227
Unite (trade union) 149, 166, 170, 171, 173, 188–9, 227, 229, 251, 279, 287, 289, 302, 316, 338
United Black Women’s Action Group 45
United Nations 107, 108, 125–6, 128–9; UN World Conference Against Racism 129
Uxbridge Gazette 145
Varoufakis, Yanis 182
Vaz, Keith 337–8
Velazquez, Armando 8
Veness, Keith xxi–xxii, 13–14, 16, 17, 33, 36, 39, 45, 49, 51, 53, 54, 57, 66, 79, 81, 83, 93, 99–101, 194
Veness, Val xxi–xxii, 13, 18, 55–6, 76, 160
Venezuela 140–2, 178, 181, 204–5, 256, 281, 296; Venezuela Information Centre 140
Vice Films 227
Virgin Trains 288, 342
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) 4, 6, 7, 9
Wadsworth, Marc 271, 272, 329
Wainwright, Hilary 68
Walker, Jackie 159, 228, 242, 276, 328
Wallace, Ben 304
Wapping dispute 94–5, 99, 101
Ward, Dave 165
Ware, Colin 44
Wark, Kirsty 318
Warrenpoint, County Down 116
Watergate 22
Watson, Tom 188–9, 220, 225, 235, 251, 261, 262, 265–6, 275, 277, 286, 287, 291, 302, 316
Weathermen 13
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney 300
Weischelbaum, Aaron 26
Whelan, Mick 295
White, Michael 251
Wilberforce, Lord 15, 24
Wilde, Oscar, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ 282, 347–8
Williamson, Chris 159
Willsman, Peter 332
Wilson, Brian 101–2, 106
Wilson, Harold 14–16, 21, 24, 28–34, 40, 83, 150
Wimpory, Paul 8–9
Winterton, Rosie 188, 222, 225, 241, 250, 292
Woman’s Hour (radio programme) 175, 308
Woodcock, John 214, 226, 241–2, 264, 290, 299, 325, 337
Woodward, Jude 176
Woollard, Ed 148, 194
Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) 13, 23, 66, 91
Workers Socialist League 46
World Jewish Congress 18
World Peace Organisation 67
Wrekin Labour Party 3, 13
Wrekin Young Socialists 3, 4
Wright, Cecile 228
Xi Jinping 207, 208
Yad Vashem 193
Yew Tree Manor, Shropshire 2–4, 12
Yom Kippur War (1973) 22
York University Palestinian Solidarity Society 236
Young, Robin 39, 44, 49, 50, 57–8, 61, 72, 74
Young Socialists 13–14, 16, 20, 150
Zionism 81–2, 129–33, 135, 138, 154, 156, 159, 178, 231–41, 245–53, 269, 325–6, 328, 333
About the Author
Tom Bower is the author of twenty-three bestselling books. In the late 1950s he travelled to communist Czechoslovakia, and while a student at the LSE he was known as ‘Tommy the Red’. As a journalist, between 1969 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 he travelled across communist East Germany and spent much of his time during the 1970s reporting for BBC TV with British strikers, especially the miners led by Arthur Scargill. From 1989 he worked for three years in Russia, interviewing high-ranking Soviet intelligence officers who played the spy game against the West. He reported wars from Vietnam, the Middle East and South America, where he encountered hard-left idealists and latterday commissars. Bower’s experience of myriad wars, elections, corrupt politicians and shady businessmen cured him of his Marxism, but not of his curiosity and innate scepticism. Dangerous Hero is the latest of his many bestselling and critically acclaimed books.
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