South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] in the internal affairs of other countries, this was to contribute to the shift in information tactics towards the cloak of secrecy.’51 In contrast, however, any legitimate Communist hold on power in Western Europe was to be avoided at all costs because: ‘Powerful Communist parties in France and Italy were capable of sharing, and […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] to them be applied to abolish Anglo-American despotism (which continues against its non-white population). A consistent exception to this rejection of any international ideology was the black communist in the US and to some extent the black nationalist (e.g. Marcus Garvey et al.) On the whole, however, the US regime holds ideological sway over […]

PERFIDIOUS ALBION: Britain and the Spanish Civil War

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] out of hand? Answering the former assertion, it appears Hankey regarded Leon Blum (Prime Minister of France June 1936 to June 1937) as little more than a communist stooge, even though his government had been appointed by President Lebrun, an adherent of the centre-right Democratic Republican Alliance. Hankey appears unaware, or unconcerned, that then […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] deeply ingrained and taken for granted that it was never called into question and thus seldom given overt expression. Indeed, once in Albania and working with the Communist resistance, he quite happily dressed like a partisan wearing a cap with a red star and giving ‘the communist salute to whomever I meet’. (p. 191) […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] at the Hague notwithstanding, go back many decades and indeed were supported by the USA when they were pursued by the Nationalist Chinese government prior to the Communist takeover in 1949.12 The expansion of Chinese naval power in the region is designed to deter the US, which has assembled and deployed a formidable maritime […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.13 In one of their earliest cases, Williams hired Maheu to investigate a politically charged murder case involving U.S. intelligence agents and communist partisans in World War II Italy, involving $100 million in lost Allied gold. The case, which had major political implications in Italy, interested the CIA deeply. […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] activities to tie the need for a new centre party to allegations of Militant’s ‘infiltration’ of the Labour Party as well as Labour MPs’ links to the Communist Party of Great Britain. The concerted propaganda campaign against Militant was based around Reg Prentice MP. Taaffe stated that the same voices defending Prentice were increasingly […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western countries. These files showed that the USAF had been hopelessly infiltrated by communists in the 1950s and 1960s. The […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western countries. These files showed that the USAF had been hopelessly infiltrated by communists in the 1950s and 1960s. The […]

Newsinger Uproar

Lobster Issue

[…] 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham […]

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