Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP having ‘an influence within the trade union movement vastly out of proportion […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist (the fascist menace). In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left (the communist menace).3 As well as being a reflexive response, ‘contamination’ or anathematization is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and, within their […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] Council of Intellectual Workers, articles by him began appearing in newspapers and journals from 1919.4 Initially, in the continuing political turmoil (which included the possibility of a communist revolution and attempted Habsburg restorations) he advocated a limited form of democracy under the guardianship of aristocratic leaders. By 1920 he was suggesting the creation of […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] media to create a popular image of most wanted criminals and the need for G-men to capture or kill them. The twin threats of spectacular criminals and communist subversives fed the FBI director’s greed for power over what became a kind of federal secret police. At almost the same time, Harry Anslinger, previously an […]