Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] by British bombing.(5) The opposition forms A number of groups determined to oppose Mosley: individual Conservatives,(6) Liberals,(7) and members of the Labour Party;(8) left-wing organisations, including the Communist Party (CP),(9) Common Wealth,(10) the Socialist Party Of Great Britain (SPGB),(11) and the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP);(12) civil rights organisations, such as the National Council of […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Program (ERP – i.e. the Marshall Plan) were many, e.g.: ‘…Britain’s economic, financial, and possible military collapse; Europe’s economic distress and potential instability; the threat of further communist political successes; Germany’s economic stagnation; the conflicts which arose between the State Department on the one hand and the War Department, Hoover, and OMGUS on the […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] documents, reprinted in the Irish Socialist Party publication, The Voice, revealed that the CIA also welcomed the formation of the Provos because they were ‘nationalist rather than Communist’ and could help to neutralise the threat posed by ‘Marxism’. (6) On one thing however, Dillon and his mentor, Conor Cruise O’Brien, are absolutely correct: because […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] had discussed ‘covert means’ with Lambton reported that ‘our…..unofficial efforts to undermine Dr. Mussadiq are making good progress’.(37) With 1952 came the British preference for ‘a non- communist coup d’etat preferably in the name of the Shah. This would mean an authoritarian regime’,(38) the embassy in Tehran noted. On 28 January the Foreign Office […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] or to refuse to negotiate with trade union officials whom they had reason to believe were Communists.’ This definition was extended to those who were ‘susceptible to Communist pressure.’ Reginald Maudling announced in the House of Commons that the actual number of union officials barred from government departments was a mere seven, (3) though […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] most voluble of the early left-wing group of writers, and the KGB even contributed two thousand dollars…to Lane’s efforts…. He was welcomed into Left-leaning European intellectual circles….German Communist Joachim Joesten dedicated his 1964 book, Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?, to Lane ….Lane.…has become an embarrassment to the Left ….“the left’s leading hearse chaser”….a “huckster”…. […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] ascendant. This was also true in Britain – the U.S.’s partner in the post-war arrangements. The most important problem the U.S. had was in the U.K.(53) The Communist ‘threat’ A substantial section of the British secret state and its allies in the Conservative Party, business and the media believed, or found it useful to […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] in the field – doing spectacular things. And don’t believe those smears that he’s a ‘traitor’ to the land of his birth. He’s still a violently anti- Communist right-winger who firmly believes in Queen and country. He wrote Spycatcher for the simple reason that he and his wife were going broke – because those […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] seen in the movies. Even though the monetarist emphasis of the ERP led to considerable unemployment and an increase in poverty in the late 1940s, the Italian Communist Party was unable to translate considerable pressure for action from below into an anti-ERP campaign that could energise a large enough cross-section of the population. The […]
