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... United States, he was celebrated as a hero and Frank Sinatra, no less performed at a benefit in his honour.(23) The trial run for Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror was, however, provided in Central America in the 1980s and early 1990s. There the United States (with the full support of the Thatcher government) engaged in two of the most brutal counter-insurgency campaigns of modern times in El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as waging an illegal covert war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Instead of committing ground troops, the Americans waged war through proxies, turning loose CIA-sponsored death squads to torture and kill in all ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-09.htm
... either from, or in opposition to, the CPGB, it is impossible to even speculate convincingly how the the British Left - or British Politics - would have developed if the Moscow gold had been exposed in the late fifties. But it certainly is possible that the anti-union hysteria of the late 1970s, leading to the catastrophe of Thatcherism - and the subsequent collapse of the Labour Party - could have been avoided. Notes In 1964, for example, Common Cause issued a pamphlet naming 180 people in Britain with 'Communist connections', including Bertrand Russell, Lord Boyd Orr and the painter Ruskin Spear! See the Sunday Times, 31 May 1964. 'Big Jim' Matthews ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-09.htm
... Centre for International Briefing at Farnham Castle since 1974. (17) Ian MacGregor - a man of prudence and principles?Since Ian MacGregor came to Britain he has made it clear that the giant firms he has been put in control of must be made to "balance their books". The implication, forcefully promoted by the 'monetarist' Thatcher, is that the nationalised industries don't work and privatisation is necessary. But, as we have seen, a massive rationalisation movement has been going throughout the capitalist economies affecting firms whether they be private or State-controlled. Multinational monsters like IT and T have been divided up; indeed, it was Lazards of New York which enabled ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Nov 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue06/lob06-02.htm
... article which appeared in the July 1981 issue of ROUND TABLE - The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. The article dealt with British (and Western) security in the event of a political and military withdrawal from Ireland and pointed out that the possibility of a united Ireland joining NATO was the option most frequently discussed at the meeting between Haughey & Thatcher, in December 1980. The author of the article was Kenneth Whitaker, former governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, and Secretary of the Irish Department of Finance. Whitaker was regarded as a powerful figure in the Irish bourgoisie establishment, and has been widely accredited as the architect of Irish economic policy from the mid-1950s to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Feb 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue07/lob07-04.htm
... and other groups were even smaller, and even less able to impose their presence in a consistent way. The highly-effective crushing of the miners strike, and the failure to make much political headway after the riots of late 1985, or even significantly control the streets, illustrated the powerful physical and ideological reserves at the disposal of the Thatcher regime.(90) So, in a variety of ways, those anticipating a breakthrough by organised fascism were few and far between. The 'coalition regime' in the NF itself wasn't to last long enough to even begin to prove the proposition that they might have been able to make meaningful political headway. Notes See Spearhead issues 180 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-04.htm
... was a member of the Hollinger Advisory Board and a guest at Black's wedding to Barbara Amiel in 1992; and he had Black and Amiel as his guests when he travelled to Israel to open the Rothschild-funded Supreme Court building later that year.128 Jacob was among the guests to the exclusive annual Hollinger dinner in 1998, alongside Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington.129 Despite Black's legal troubles he retained his contacts with the Rothschilds: Jacob deigning to dine with him in public in 2005 not long before his indictment; and in 124 Conrad Black, A Life in Progress, (London: Random ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-rothschild.pdf
... (49) In the public domain, Phil Andrews, speaking at a St George's Day demonstration in Stoke, is reputed to have said of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, 'What's all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an agent of the Thatcher regime. ' (50) His views weren't universally shared, and by October 1985 an Organisers' Bulletin was urging members to 'make an effort to be pleasant to PCs they meet while leafletting, paper selling, etc. '( 51) The most tangible practical effect of the NF's policy, and something that determined both its contours ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-09.htm
... European ally - its 'floating aircraft carrier' in Duncan Campbell's phrase - was getting restive for the first time since the days of Gaitskell and, along with the vitality of political radicalism in the women's movement as evidenced at Greenham Common, much more dangerously so. The Iran Contra documents make clear that the first Reagan administration was seriously afraid that Thatcher, and even Kohl, might not be re-elected. This was a prospect not to be contemplated if their successful opponents were not to conform to traditional NATO expectations. This is the view of the SDP's significance so baldly stated by Walden and so clearly ignored by Crewe and King. In a footnote to the 1987 SDP merger ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-04.htm
319. Lobbying [Lobster #53 (Summer 2007)]
... leading scientists (the Royal Society) challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine its scientific consensus (The Guardian 20 September 2006). As do those wishing to represent 'big government', e.g . French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy pitching those on unemployment benefit against wage-earners, a throwback to Thatcherism ( 'benefit scroungers') and Reaganism in US. See also Le Monde Diplomatique as quoted in The Guardian 2 May 2007. There was a fascinating article about a Ministry of Defence report envisaging the 'future strategic context' likely to face Britain's armed forces in 30 years time. This included a reference to 'the middle classes becoming revolutionary ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-31.htm
... the biggest and most immediate interest in the conception of 'terrorism' at the heart of all this. International Freedom Foundation (UK) - IFF(UK)Committee for A Free Nicaragua (UK) - CFN(UK)These are two recent additions to the long list of right-wing groups which have circled their wagons round the Thatcher administration in support of the greater lunacies of the American right. CFN(UK) is screened from view by PO box number, no phone, and no personnel listed in its literature. It was apparently conceived in December 1985 at a two-day pro-Contra conference in London. Speakers included the ubiquitous Alfred Sherman (then ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-05.htm
