Come on Les - If MacColl was an establishment spy he must have been as inept as any dreamed up by the Boulting Brothers or the Carry On team. A spy who left the Communist Party when he could have been of most use to the establishment, an avid supporter of left trades unions who never associated with a leadership who had the utmost respect for him, - likewise CND, the Anti Aparthied movement, the miners, the Anti-Vienam war campaign, even the Co-op... and all the other causes he supported - a leap too far for the most hardened anti-MacCollite, surely?
Jim