Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald owned a Mannlicher-Carcano; and as recent analysis seems to have confirmed, the photographs of him posing with the rifle and American left newspapers, both Trotskyist and Communist, were authentic (despite his claim that they had been faked).13 In his memoir Chauncey Holt tells us that, in the months before the assassination, the weapons […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Free on 16 July: ‘The core of New Labour was a bitchy queen, a depressive fawner upon powerful men, a couple of messianics, a coterie of ex- Communist Party opportunists, a few jaded, modist “thinkers” and a young Praetorian guard of ambitious student politicians and assorted money-grubbing lobbyists. A bit more complicated than this? […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

Lobster Issue

A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] Larkin. HE Lobster story begins in Edinburgh in 1948 when Ramsay was born, the eldest child of a food chemist father and housewife mother. Both parents were Communist Party members until the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, so Ramsay grew up in a bookish, lefty atmosphere which encouraged a sort of instinctive hostility […]

92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] publication focused on intelligence and parapolitics, has frequently covered the career of journalist, author, and intelligence operative Brian Crozier (1918–2012). Lobster has analyzed his role in anti- communist networks, his relationship with British intelligence (MI5/IRD) and the CIA, and his private intelligence activities. Key Connections and Coverage: • Free Agent (1993): Lobster reviewed and […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] body Le Cercle’. Van Vuuren mentioned a Le Cercle meeting in 1984 which addressed the serious threat of infiltration of socialist parties of Europe and elsewhere by communist agents. There was talk of left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. A year and half later Palme was assassinated. But so what? Does Nicholson want us […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] important oil supplier. They were run by generally conservative regimes which backed Britain’s anti-Soviet position in the Cold War, out of a concern that the expansion of Communist influence into the Middle East could provoke revolution and the overthrow of Mark Curtis, ‘Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocide’, Declassified UK, 20 October […]

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