Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the House of Lords (after being a Brexit Party MEP) is too striking to pass without mention. Both began their political lives as members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, whose remnants went way beyond parody when they accepted funding from the Koch brothers.63 A detailed account of this strange saga is to be had […]
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 Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] it was simply impossible to tell truth from fantasy, fact from fiction.’ (p. 200) On this account, IRD looks more significant that it has done previously. Its communist conspiracy idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover was also not interested in the pursuit of organised crime. This is generally thought to be because Hoover was obsessed with the ‘ communist threat’. Even after the 1957 accidental discovery of the meeting of the Mafia’s upper echelons at Apalachin, in New York State, ‘. . . as of […]