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By Mike Small • Thursday, December 6, 2018 – 22:01For years, people have speculated about who is behind a shadowy group of well-connected ‘free speech advocates’ spreading far-right ideologies and climate science denial.
The group emerged from a libel trial and bankruptcy of the ‘Living Marxism’ magazine in 2000, has roots in the Trotskyist left, and is now the factory behind a production line of far-right polemic that has infiltrated mainstream media and politics. It currently has its public home on Spiked — a website dedicated to belligerent, populist, anti-environmental, Islamophobic ‘analysis’.
Until now, no one knew who funded the network.

Revealed: US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network | DeSmog UK – December 2018
Read time: 17 mins By Mike Small • Thursday, December 6, 2018 – 22:01 For years, people have speculated about who is behind a shadowy group of well-connected ‘free speech advocates’ spreading far-right ideologies and climate science denial. The group emerged from a libel trial and bankruptcy of the ‘Living Marxism’ magazine in 2000, has… [Read More]