Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] green credentials impress you when he was Bill Clinton’s vice-president and you were an eager young Guardian newshound in DC? Freedland’s fellow Guardian columnist Martin Kettle, the Communist turned great friend of Tony Blair and New Labour, has just discovered the City of London is not all it’s cracked up to be. As the […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] “In most of the possible theatres of limited war…it must be accepted that it is at least improbable that we would be able to meet a major communist offensive in one of these areas without resorting to tactical nuclear weapons”… Official statements reflect a similar approach. The 1956 Defence White Paper remarked that while […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
Inside Intelligence Anthony Cavendish Palu Publishing Ltd. 1987 Although many hundreds of books have been written on British Intelligence, very few have tackled post-war intelligence in any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] link post-war anti-communism with the current anti-Muslim strategies in what the Bush regime has now designated as ‘the long war’ between ‘freedom’ and ‘totalitarianism’. Once it was communist totalitarianism and now it is Muslim totalitarianism: same struggle, different enemies. This is clearly going to be the new line: the struggle against totalitarianism that has […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] from the endless recycling of anarchy’s glorious past. The last two issues have been excellent, with hard original research on the Masons, the SAS, the World Anti- Communist League, etc. Available from the address above @ 50p plus postage. Author Jonathan Bloch has been refused permanent residence in Britain. A South African refugee, he […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] German military had co-operated with the Soviet Union. Hitler had been much more reliable than this. He had stopped the military co-operation, he had crushed the alleged Communist threat in Germany and was regarded by many influential figures in Britain as the best bastion civilisation could have against Soviet expansion. The author puts a […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] role in establishing the covert American role in Italian politics just after the war. The USA destroyed Italian democracy in order to save it (from the Italian Communist Party). As the major media celebrate the “triumph of the West’, Willan’s book shows that the USA’s only commitment is to US capital. Though a commonplace […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ‘Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still hasn’t … Read more
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] dedicated to the preservation of ‘containment militarism’; its stated goal to ‘train young American Labour leaders in the critical issues that divide the Free World from the Communist states’. It received $6,000,000 from Richard Scaife, an ultra-right millionaire who “has made the formation of public opinion both his business and his vocation”. He also […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] the road to military action and became the dominant figure in the bomb plot, the recipient of Jordan’s meticulous intelligence.’ Ryan was originally a member of the Communist Party (as was Jordan) and became a Maoist, whereupon he was expelled from the CP in the 1960s. He was always suspected by them of having […]