Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s anti-Soviet propaganda organisation IRD could be cited in the defence of the Soviet Union. IRD manufactured disinformation about the Soviet Union and ‘the communist threat’. A recent article on the organisation, based on recently declassified files, begins with this: The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] NAT. Socialist Bulletin. Frewin cites an appendix in my book Dreamer of the Day showing that Oswald clearly derived his information from a story in the American Communist Party paper The Worker.2 The article in question was penned by ‘Mike Newberry’, who frequently wrote about the far right.3 In June 1961, for example, Newberry […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] a local matter which Scottish people alone should try and resolve. He also said that the dispute would fail. He was wrong; and Jimmy Reid, the ( Communist) shop steward, who led and planned the occupation, was proved right. The Treasury figures were not reliable; the amount of money needed to support the yards […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] a very good 25 page paper, ‘Zersetzen: Some Precedents’.37 Of this paper Russell writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute […]