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Alliance for Workers' Liberty

Alliance for Workers' Libertyhttp://www.workersliberty.org/node/4160 is a small Trotskyist sect in Britain which specializes in attacks on anti-War voices. The organization has a Zionist bent and frequently tries to discredit criticism of Israeli policies by labelling it "left anti-Semitism". It operates through various front groups, including the Iraq Unions Solidarity. It is a key supporter of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign a group that appears to be CIA adjacenthttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/15/demu-j15.html and to collaborate with Ukrainian Nazi-collaborationist organisations.https://web.archive.org/web/20221002113432/https://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2022/09/03/ukraine-solidarity-campaign-supporters-meeting/
AWL also works closely with the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq and its various front organizations - Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq, Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, Iraqi Freedom Congress and the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq.http://www.workersliberty.org/node/4160
==See also==
*Clarion
*Solidarity
*Socialist Organiser
== Notable members/former members ==
*Camila Bassi
* Journalist James BloodworthCapitalism leaves Haiti to rot, Solidarity, 9 February 2011
* Screenwriter Clive Bradley, who remains an active sympathiser of the group
* Newsnight Scotland presenter Gordon Brewer
*Michael Chessum
*Steve Cohen
* Rob Dawber, screenwriter of Ken Loach's The Navigators, who was still a member when he died
* Former National Union of Students president Kat Fletcher
*David Hirsh
*Social theorist Martyn Hudson
*Sacha Ismail
* Israel lobbyist Alan Johnson
*Sean Matgamna
* Former Labour MP Gloria De PieroMany interruptions, one struggle - Interview with Jill Mountford Solidarity, 2 March 2016
* Pete Radcliffe
*Daniel Randall
* Author and journalist Charlotte Raven
* Public and Commercial Services Union General Secretary Mark Serwotka
*Patrick Smith - Labour Party "antisemitism" witch-hunter
* The Guardian journalist Rajeev Syal
* Martin Thomas
*Rhea Wolfson
==Resources==
*Tony Greenstein The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty: Britain’s Revolutionary Imperialists What Next Journal, No.30, 2005.
* Daniel Randall and Sacha Ismail Lies, Damn Lies and Tony Greenstein What Next Journal, No.30, 2005.
* https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/978/awl-dishonesty/
* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wBaAOHgkBEL7ohkelvpaaGiIY-q124sKqEwCglkrVm0/edit
* https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2016-09-16/notes-debate-tony-greenstein
* https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1179/both-sides-of-the-witch-hunt/
==Notes==
Category:'Left' groups
Alliance of Australian Retailers

The Alliance of Australian Retailers is a front-group funded by the big three tobacco companies. Melissa Fyfe, Former Turnbull adviser heads tobacco laws fight, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 June 2011. It was formed to fight the Australian Federal Government's plans to introduce plain packaging of tobacco products.
===Activities and Views===
The Alliance argues there is little evidence to support plain packaging of tobacco:
:The Australian Federal Government has proposed that all tobacco products be sold in plain packets no later than July 2012. No matter which brand or type of cigarette, all packets will look the same. The Federal Government claims that plain packaging will help smokers quit or prevent people from taking up smoking, but they have provided no real evidence that plain packaging will work. 
:The Federal Government’s determination to go ahead with this policy shows they are not listening to small business throughout Australia. This is just the latest example of a policy that won’t work but that will hurt thousands of small businesses.
:We draw the line at Government proposals which, like the Alcopops tax, haven't been thought through, won't work, and will have negative consequences for small businesses.
:That's why the Alliance of Australian Retailers has come together to make the voices of small retailers heard, and to oppose plain packaging until it is overturned Plain packaging just doesn't make sense, accessed 8 June 2011 
It also argues that:
*Plain packaging will create unnecessary confusion for retailers and inconvenience for customers
*Plain packaging will cost small retailers money we can't afford
*Plain packaging is likely to further increase illicit tobacco trading, making cigarettes more accessible to teenagers Why we are concerned, Alliance of Australian Retailers website, accessed 8 June 2011 
==Affiliations==
==People==
In June 2011 it was reported that Tony Barry, the former press secretary of a leading Australian Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull was believed to be earning more than $20,000 a month lobbying Liberal MPs and crossbenchers against the tobacco reforms. Barry was working for the Alliance of Australian Retailers.
==Funding==
AAR's website says it is supported by British American Tobacco Australia Limited, Philip Morris Limited and Imperial Tobacco Australia Limited.<ref> Who we represent, AAR website, accessed 8 June 2011. 
==Members==
The Alliance of Australian Retailers together with its member associations represents approximately 15,000 small retailers across Australia. The Alliance of Australian Retailers is comprised of:
*The Australian Newsagents' Federation Ltd (ANF)
*The National Independent Retailers Association (NIRA)
*Service Station Association Pty Ltd (SSA)
==Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes==
===Publications===
===Contact===
:Website: https://www.australianretailers.com.au/
===Resources===
===Notes===
Category:LobbyingCategory:Tobacco
Category:Corporate Lobby Groups
Category:Front Groups
Allianz SE

Allianz SE is one of the largest financial services providers in the world, founded in 1989 and headquartered in Munich, Germany. On Fortune Global 500, it ranked 16 in 2006, 19 in 2007, 22 in 2008 and 20 in 2009.CNN, Fortune Global 500, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Divisions==
===Financial services===
*Property-Casualty insurance
*Life/Health insurance
*Asset Management
*Banking
===Key group companies with different brands===
*Euler Hermes
*Mondial
*Fireman’s Fund
==People==
:Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, was recruited as an advisor to Allianz AG’s Pacific Investment Management Co. in 2007.Reuters, "Pimco hires Greenspan as consultant: report," 16 May 2007, accessed 07 April 2010.
:Minoru Makihara, a member of International Advisory Board and Joint Advisory Council of Allianz, is a Member of the Senior Advisory Group to the Minister of Finance of Japan.Business Week, Executive Profile: Minoru Makihara, accessed 13 March 2009.
:The U.K. Life Peer Iain Vallance, Lord Vallance of Tummel, was Chairman of Allianz Cornhill Insurance plc until 2006 and is a member of the International Advisory Board of Allianz AG.Allianz, International Advisory Board and Joint Advisory Council, accessed 24 March 2009.
:Heinrich Weiss, a Member of International Advisory Board and Joint Advisory Council of Allianz SE, is Chairman of the Foreign Trade Advisory Council to the German Secretary of Economics and Labour.Business Week, Executive Profile: Heinrich Weiss, accessed 23 March 2009.
==Resources==
*Allianz, International Advisory Board and Joint Advisory Council, accessed 24 March 2009.
*Business Week, Executive Profile: Heinrich Weiss, accessed 23 March 2009.
*Business Week, Executive Profile: Minoru Makihara, accessed 13 March 2009.
*CNN, Fortune Global 500, accessed 07 April 2010.
*Reuters, "Pimco hires Greenspan as consultant: report," 16 May 2007, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
Allied Clandestine Committee

The Allied Clandestine Committee was the body within NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe charged with co-ordinating secret 'Gladio' stay-behind networks across Europe. It was also sometimes known as the 'Allied Co-ordination Committee', the 'Clandestine Planning Committee', and the 'Coordination and Planning Committee'.Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.1. 
According the US State Department, the stay-behind networks were "designed to form the nucleus of resistance movements if the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Western Europe.":
::During World War II, anti-Nazi resistance movements had sprung up throughout Europe, but supplying them by airdrops and other risky measures had been difficult and uncertain. The “stay behind” networks sought to avoid such problems by stockpiling weapons in secret caches ahead of time, and recruiting volunteers who would form the core of resistance movements, if needed. The program remained one of the Cold War’s best-kept secrets until it was revealed in late 1990, first in Italy and then in other West European countries.Misinformation about "Gladio/Stay Behind" Networks Resurfaces, America.Gov, 20 January 2006.
The Committee's last confirmed meeting took place on 24 October 1990 in Brussels.Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.1. 
==Notes==
Category:NATO
Allstate Corporation

Allstate Corporation is the second-largest personal lines insurer in the United States and the largest that is publicly held. On Fortune Global 500, they ranked 198 in 2008 and 295 in 2009.CNN, Fortune Global 500, accessed 07 April 2010.
==People==
:F. Duane Ackerman, a director of Allstate Corp. since 1999, has served as Chairman of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and Member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council – both offices of the U.S. Presidential Executive.Business Week, Executive Profile: F. Duane Ackerman, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Contact==
:Website:
:http://www.allstate.com/
==Resources==
*Business Week, Executive Profile: F. Duane Ackerman, accessed 07 April 2010.
*CNN, Fortune Global 500, accessed 07 April 2010.
==Notes==
Category: Financial Revolving Door
Alok Sharma

Alok Sharma has been the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Reading West since May 2010. Alok Sharma MP www.parliament.uk, accessed 29 May 2015 In the 2015 general election Sharma retained his seat with a majority of 6,650. Reading West parliamentary constituency BBC News, 8 May 2015, accessed 29 May 2015 
Since May 2015, Sharma has been the parliamentary private secretary to the Chancellor to the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Letwin. Guido Fawkes PPS reshuffle in full, 29 May 2015, accessed 1 June 2015.
==Staff==
*Kirandeep Grewal 
*John Higgins 
*Jessica Inns Correspondence and public enquiries officer, Public Health England Register of interests of members' secretaries and research assistants, 23 March 2016, parliament.uk, accessed 25 April 2016
*Frederika Mitchell 
*Cyril Mitkov 
==Notes==
Sharma, AlokSharma, AlokSharma, Alok
Alon Gilad

Alon Gilad (also transliterated as Elon Gilad) is an employee of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, according to an article on the Ministry's use of internet 'talkbackers' in the business publication Calcalist:Dora Kishinevski, The Foreign Ministry presents: talkbackers in the service of the State, Calcalist, 5 July 2009, translated for Occupation Magazine by George Malent.
::Elon Gilad, a worker at the Foreign Ministry who coordinated the activities of the volunteer talkbackers during the war in Gaza and will coordinate the activities of the professional talkbackers in the new project, says that volunteering for talkback in defence of Israel started spontaneously: “Many times people contacted us and asked how they could help to explain Israeli policy. They mainly do it at times like the Gaza operation. People just asked for information, and afterwards we saw that the information was distributed all over the Internet. The Ministry of Absorption also started a project at that time, and they transferred to us hundreds of volunteers who speak foreign languages and who will help to spread the information. That project too mainly spreads information on the Internet.”
::“You can’t win”Dora Kishinevski, The Foreign Ministry presents: talkbackers in the service of the State, Calcalist, 5 July 2009, translated for Occupation Magazine by George Malent.
==Notes==
Gilad, Alon
Alstom Power

Alstom Power says it is 'a world leader in transport infrastructure, power generation and electrical grid'.About us, Alstom website, undated, accessed 3 November 2012 
Among other activities, it builds turbines for nuclear power stations. Its website says it has '50 years’ experience in servicing nuclear plants' and that "30% of all nuclear power plants worldwide run with Alstom turbine generator sets'.Nuclear Power, Alstom website, undated, accessed 3 November 2012
==People==
===Revolving door executives===
*Joan MacNaughton, a former senior civil servant who was director-general of energy at the former Department of Trade and Industry. She is now Global Adviser Sustainable Policies at Alstom and a member of the High Level Panel for the CDM Policy Dialogue. Joan MacNaughton CB, LinkedIn profile, undated, accessed 10 September 2012 
*Craig Jones, Alstom director of government affairs since 2010. He is a former senior civil servant and diplomat, who was deputy director at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) (2008-09) and at the Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2006-08, and a former private secretary to the environment minister (1997-99).
===Former executives===
*Professor John Loughhead OBE FREng FTSE is a former Alstom vice-president who was appointed DECC’s chief scientific adviser in October 2014 
*Mike Rolls, president of the Energy Industries Club, is its former sales director.LinkedIn entry for Mike Rolls, LinkedIn website, undated, accessed 3 November 2012
==Lobbying agencies==
*Bell Pottinger Communications (circa 2008-09)
*Bellenden
==Website==
www.alstom.com
==Notes==
Category:Nuclear Spin
Category:Civil nuclear industry
Category:Nuclear: UK
Category:Pro-nuclear companies
Category:Nuclear revolving door
Alternative Investment Management Association

The Alternative Investment Management Association - AIMA - is the hedge fund industry's global trade association.
==Representation in the European Commission==
Kevin Charlton, tax director at KPMG, and Neil Oliver represent the Alternative Investment Management Association on the European Commission's Expert Group on automatic exchange of financial account information. The aim of the group is to assist the EU member states on tax laws and collecting the full amount of tax owed to them. European Commission Commission Expert Group on automatic exchange of financial account information, accessed 4 May 2015.
==People==
===Internal===
*Christen Thomson, Director of Communications. "Christen also works closely with AIMA’s CEO and Executive Director in engaging with policymakers and their constituents on behalf of the hedge fund industry."AIMA website, accessed Feb 2009
===External===
*Hume Brophy's Eoin Brophy is a communications consultant to AIMAHedge funds 'must improve look', PR Week, 3 Oct 2008
* Former Hume Brophy staffer Wouter Baljon has also worked on AIMA matters in 2010 and 2011 European Parliament Lobbying Contacts Report 1st July - 31st December 2010 .
==Publications==
In 2012 AIMA commissioned a report titled “The value of the hedge fund industry to investors, markets, and the broader economy” in partnership with KPMG and the Centre for Hedge Fund Research at Imperial College, London. The paper notes the substantial social benefits of hedge funds such as employing 300,000 people globally, generating £3.2 billion in UK tax revenues and their stewardship of assets for “socially valuable investors”. Simon Lack, The Hedge Fund Lobbyists Fight Back, Business Insider, 26 April 2012 
==Contacts==
http://www.aima.org
2nd Floor, 167 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2EA 
==References==
Category: Financial sector lobbying
Altman Kazickis Foundation

The Altman Kazickis Foundation is a New York-based philanthropic foundation, founded in 1996.Altman/Kazickas Foundation, Foundation Directory Online, accessed 9 November 2015.
==People==
===Trustees===
*Roger C. Altman
*Jurate Kazickas
*Richard M. AltmanAltman/Kazickas Foundation, Form 990, 2014.
==Notes==
Category:Foundations
Alun Cairns

Alun Cairns is a Welsh Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan at the May 2010 election. 
He was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Wales Office and Government Whip in July 2014.Ministerial appointments: July 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 15 July 2014.
Following Stephen Crabb's succession to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Cairns took over the role of Welsh Secretary in March 2016. Dods people, Arrivals, moves, departures, Civil Service World, accessed 31 March 2016 
==Activities==
Cairns had been a member of the National Assembly for Wales for in the South Wales West region since 1999.
Before being elected he worked for Lloyds Bank (latterly Lloyds TSB) for more than 10 years – mostly in business development, with his last role in financial services compliance.Alun Cairns, personal website, acc February 2012
==Dinner with lobbyists==
A seating plan of the Conservative Party's Black and White Ball, in February 2014, was leaked to the Guardian in October 2014. The party, which guests pay between £450 and £1000 for a ticket, seats diners with the minister most relevant to them. The report revealed that Cairns sat on a table with the then energy minister, Michael Fallon, James Wharton MP and Alexander Temerko, a director of Offshore Group Newcastle, a firm which supplies the offshore renewable energy industry. Both Cairns and Wharton are MPs of constituencies where the offshore wind farms have been proposed and have both benefited from donations directly from Temerko. Simon Goodley, Melanie Newman and Nick Mathiason Tycoons mix with top Tories at fundraising ball in London The Guardian, 12 October 2014, accessed 14 October 2014 
==Staff==
Antony Bennett - Councillor, Vale of Glamorgan council | Ross England | Garaint Evans | Katherine Pearce Register of Interests of Members' Secretaries and Research Assistants, 23 March 2016, parliament.uk, accessed 19 April 2016 
==Sponsors==
In March 2014 Cairns declared the following donation on the MPs' Register of interests for 'support in the capacity as an MP':
:Name of donor: Alexander Temerko
:Address of donor: private
:Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
:Date of receipt: 26 March 2014
:Date of acceptance: 26 March 2014
:Donor status: individual
==Affiliations==
*Member of the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee
==Contact==
Website: http://www.aluncairns.co.uk/
==Notes==
Cairns, Alun Cairns, AlunCairns, Alun
Alwaleed bin Talal

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and one of the world's wealthiest investors. He is a major shareholder in News Corporation.Tarek El-Tablawy, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Seeks Deeper Ties To News Corp, Huffington Post, 17 January 2010. 
==Notes==
Category:Saudi Arabia
Aly Shady

Aly Shady is one of the three founding members of the World Water Council (the two others being Abu-Zeid Mahmoud and Rene Coulomb). Shady is Senior Water Advisor at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He is past President of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) (2003-06), inductee of a lifelong membership to the International Water Academy (IWA) in Oslo, Norway and founding member of the Arab Water Council.International Water Resources Association Press Release, accessed 26 November 2008.. 
Shady has published over a hundred articles and has taught various university courses. Having worked on more than 185 major projects in more than 40 countries Shady is seen as one of the world’s leading international development advisors specializing in water policy.McGill University, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Conference on Global Food Security, accessed, 27 November 2008.. He has worked on various projects sponsored by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO). He was recently awarded the gold medal of the World Water Council in the Hague. He is a member of the Club of Tokyo which is a neoliberal think tank made up of 14 of the leading water personalities/reformers.Canada Public Service Agency, The 2000 Head of the Public Service Award, accessed 27 November 2008.Third World Centre, First Meeting of the Club of Tokyo: For A Global Water Policy Dialogue, Tokyo, accessed 27 November, 2008.
==References==
Category: Water: People
Category: Water
Alyson Stafford

:Alyson Stafford was appointed as the Director of Finance for the Scottish Executive in June 2005 and is a member of the Management Group. She was educated at Oxford University, receiving a BA and MA in Geography. She also holds two CCAB professional finance qualifications. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1992 and her services to the public sector were recognised in 2002 when she received honorary membership of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants (nominated by CIPFA Scotland). With a proven track record in the private and public sector, Alyson's career has been at the forefront of change leading strategic, operational and corporate services in the Health Service in England and Scotland as a Chief Executive as well as Director of Finance. This is her first position in central government.Scottish Government Strategic Board
==Notes==
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Alzheimer Europe

The Guardian reports:
:A member of the European Patients Forum and an umbrella body for national Alzheimer's associations. Over a third of Alzheimer Europe's income (37%) came from the pharmaceutical industry in 2005. The biggest payments were from Lundbeck (€51,683 - £35,347), Janssen-Cilag (€40,000) and Pfizer (€39,230). The Alzheimer's Society in the UK accepts far less from drug companies - donations amounted to less than 1% of income in the financial year 2005-06.Sarah Boseley, health editor Drug firms and patient groups join in fight to overturn advertising ban Monday May 21, 2007 The Guardian 
==Notes==
Category:Patient Groups
Alzheimer’s Research UK

Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity specialising in finding preventions, causes, treatments and a cure for dementia. Over the years they have supported 434 research projects across the UK. Our People Alzheimer's Research UK, accessed 6 November 2014 
==The Board==
*Chair: Stuart Pickering-Brown 
*Johannes Attems
*Michael Coleman
*Andrew Doig 
*Nick Fox 
*Clive Holmes 
*Lesley Jones 
*James Nicoll
*John O'Brien
*Bettina Platt 
*Andrew Randall 
*Karen Ritchie 
*Robert Williams
*James Fawcett 
 
==Affiliations==
Alzheimer's Research UK is a donor to the Science Media Centre. SMC, Funding, accessed 29 September 2013. See also Science Media Centre - Funding
==Contact==
*Address: Alzheimer's Research UK, 3 Riverside, Granta Park, Great Abington CB21 6AD
*Registered charity numbers 1077089 and SC042474.
== Notes ==
Category:Science Media Centre
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb

From her Carnegie Endowment biography:
Amal Saad-Ghorayeb is a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Middle East Center. A leading expert on Hizbollah, Saad-Ghorayeb has done extensive research on the organization, conducting numerous in-depth interviews with leading Hizbollah officials. She has also written extensively about Lebanon’s Shiites and Lebanese politics. Prior to joining Carnegie, she taught political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, and was a consultant at the Beirut Center for Research and Information – a leading Lebanese research centre specializing in public opinion research.Education:M.A. and B.A., American University of Beirut; Ph.D., University of Birmingham, England
Amal Swissi

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**Translator, Interpreter, and Project Administrator Dates Employed Aug 2014 – Dec 2016LinkedIn Amal Swissi. Retrieved from Archive.today of 6 April 2020 on 6 April 2020.
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