Combat 18 and MI5: some background notes

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] initial aim was to provide strong arm defensive and then offensive protection for the far right, the first publicly admitted ‘action’ being an incendiary attack on a Communist Party premises in March 1992.(2) The gap between the events that were the catalyst (including a failed November 1991 Fred Leuchter meeting in London), and the […]

The Kincora scandal and related subjects

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] — Frank Doherty, Sunday News, 22 April 1984, p. 9. Paisley’s papist smoke screens — John Carey, Sunday World, 2 December 1984, pp. 6-7. Kincora — Irish Communist, (a) November 1984, pp. 1- 18; (b) December 1984, pp.7-16. Kincora ‘leak’ man to miss inquiry — Sunday World, 16 December 1984, p. 8. Document claims […]

A Bush and Botox World

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] et al never produced any evidence – hence the necessity of the novel, perhaps. At the Progreso site the page ‘About us’ includes an interview with Ricardo Alarcon de Quesda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the National Assembly of the People’s Power.

Churchill and The Focus

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] letter of invitation, ‘hold meetings all over the country, at which the municipal authority usually presides, and socialists, Liberals and Tories advocate organised resistance to Nazi and communist propaganda. The League of Nations Union and the New Commonwealth, of which I am President, are both closely associated and many of our meetings are held […]

Kitson revisited

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] Gangs and Counter-Gangs in 1960. (4) After Kenya, Kitson next saw active service in Malaya. He arrived in the country in January 1957, by which time the Communist insurgency had already been effectively defeated. Only a small number of isolated guerrilla bands were still at large. He regarded the army’s methods as ‘thorough rather […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] policy there: “Heath’s men set about dealing with the unrest among the natives by the classic Imperial methods which had worked so well in Malaya against the Communist guerillas – a co-ordinated intelligence drive, a big propaganda campaign, mass round-ups of suspects, attacks on guerillas’ arms-supplies and cross-border sanctuaries – and then, if all […]

Our American problem

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12   Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more

Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, and, US Intelligence and the Nazis

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] many with horrific cruelty, even by the standards of the time. He successfully avoided any post-war difficulties, eventually arriving in New York as a bona fide anti- Communist in July 1951. Here, in less than a year, he achieved the remarkable feat of becoming not only a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church, but […]

Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] Ibid. Ibid pp. 72 and 3. Ibid. p. 12. Ibid. p. 13. The American Security Council (ASC) Box 8, Boston, Virginia 22713, USA. ASC is militarist, anti- communist and right-wing. Formed in the mid-1950s, the Council acts as a right-wing think tank on foreign policy and lobbies for the expansion and strengthening of U.S. […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] Serb nationalist thugs were to blame for massacring civilians in Bosnia? Indeed the same. But wasn’t that lady a member of the central committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and specifically, secretary of its front Campaign Against Militarism? So we understand. I have been told that the status of ‘research associate’ is only honorary, […]

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