Jim Jones and the Conspiracists

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] America during the early 1960s. In the course of that trip, Jones is found to have met with CIA officers (in Brazil), and to have given anti- communist speeches (in Guyana) – a peculiar stance for a self-declared leftist such as Jones. But the real reason that Dr. Moore battens me into the conspiracists’ […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] the right and the state. But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured by […]

The ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Britain

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] but there isn’t any evidence. After the rioting in Handsworth in Birmingham, Shipley explained to the readers of the Daily Telegraph (12/9/85) that members of the Revolutionary Communist Party ‘were present in Birmingham in the days preceding the outbreak of this week’s rioting, ostensibly to hold meetings – some on the streets – about […]

Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] the Third Reich. Such was the nature of its gyrations that Yockey could work both as a speech writer with a ‘considerable relationship’ to the viscerally anti- Communist Senator Joe McCarthy (and the network behind him which was seeking to invalidate the Nuremberg Trials), and, only months beforehand, as a courier for Czech intelligence. […]

Scenes From an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] along the lines of sympathy to the Soviet Union or Red China. Those most hostile to Stalinism have tended to embrace Orwell, while those least hostile have tended to parrot Communist slanders from his believing the working class smelled to working for MI6. Scenes From An Afterlife is essential reading for anyone interested in Orwell.

Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] the Hun’. The Allies were, of course, being told a different story. From 1943 onwards one of the Pope’s great fears was that there would be a Communist takeover in Italy. He relied first on the Germans to prevent this (in October 1943, the Vatican actually asked for more German police to be stationed […]

The Coors Connection; How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] takes the reader on a tour of practically the entire spectrum of the American right, from the prosetylising end of the Born Agains to the World Anti- Communist League (as was). If the territory is familiar from other works, much of the detail and some of the perspectives are new. Doing this kind of […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] the Coalition of the Willing Catering and Communication Corps. TUCETU The reward to Labour Party chairman John Reid was not long coming once Baghdad fell. The former Communist who turned strongly pro-American is now Robin Cook’s successor as Leader of the Commons. How pro-American is Reid? Remember that after Blair’s 1997 victory he joined […]

Parapolitical bits and pieces

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] remember where? And in the same part of the world in a piece in the Daily Telegraph (5 October 1984) there is reference to ‘Renamo’ an ‘anti- communist resistance force’ operating in Mozambique, ‘a movement organised by the old Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation in 1977… believed to have more than 10,000 men under arms […]

Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] ‘A direct consequence of the reorganisation of functions in 1931 was that the agency which had been employed by S.I.S. and had furnished them with information about Communist matters inside this country came under the control of the Security Service, where it was later known as the M Section .’ So he was working […]

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