Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] and her great rival in the Labour Party, James Callaghan. In her view “that was the moment”.’ 10 In a review of Willie Thompson’s history of the Communist Party, John Torode11 also referred to the Barbara Castle proposals on industrial reform and attributed a significant role in their rejection to the Communist Party of […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] Soviet Union. Disliked by Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, Cripps had actually been expelled from the Labour Party in January 1939 for advocating a Popular Front with the Communist Party. Like Hoare he kept his seat in Parliament as MP for Bristol South East. All these measures were taken in the knowledge that there wasn’t […]
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) […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] a dupe, rather than simple Soviet mischief-making. This disinformation was surfaced in Italy, a country about which the Americans were still paranoid, believing that it might go communist at the drop of a hat and dominate the Mediterranean. So from a Soviet point of view, they got two “hits” for the price of one: […]
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 […]