Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] or thought they could use – Goleniewski’s claim to be the surviving son of Tzar Nicholas of Russia. Most of them were part of the international anti- communist movement and many of This is the second recent book on Goleniewski. The first, by Tim Tate, was reviewed by me at . 4 It is […]
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 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department (IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti- communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] and the simple rejection of Western cultural dominance. The reality was that the rapid collapse of the existing colonial empires was rooted not in an all-powerful world communist ideological expansion but rather in what was a unique opportunity for nationalist and even local ethnic movements.’ (pp. 92/3) Hancock doesn’t discuss how genuine the Americans’ […]