[PDF file]: […] to broker peace deals with the UK. There was a generally pro-German, anti-Russian stance of many Swedes at that time. This stemmed from the emergence of a Communist state in Russia (from 1917) and the Soviet attack on Finland (in 1939), the latter resulting in a Swedish Volunteer Corps fighting alongside the Finns.3 These […]
[…] any measure. They l1ave also comme11ted 011 American 11ewsletters, like FILS (see page 46), wl1ich tl1ey characterize as “mainstream, (by contemporary American standards ce11tre-rigl1t), acaden1ic, orthodox anti- communist, a11ti-Soviet, [a11d l anti-left.” 110 106.This document1s the Ill page May 1989 issue. It is 11ot the first time LOBSTER has done son1ethi11g like this. Isst1es […]
[…] over the requirements of material sustenance and the drudgery of mindless wage work’.10 It was a vision which bore some striking similarities to Marx’s vision of a Communist society, where ‘society regulates the general production’ and scarcity would cease to exist, ending all need for the division of labour: ‘nobody has one exclusive sphere […]
[PDF file]: […] for the last 25 years. We plumped for the City and ignored the manufacturing base.’ Politicians don’t do this. Political parties not seeking election – e.g. the Communist Party of Great Britain – can say such things (and the CPGB did circa 1990). But for parties engaged in electoral politics this is impossible. Or […]
[…] and being signed into Artem Iovenko, ‘The ideology and development of the Social-National Party of Ukraine, and its transformation into the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”, in 1990–2004’, in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 48, no. 2/3, 2015, p. 230. (not archived). 52 Euromaidan Press, 17 August 2014. See or . 53 20 effect by then-president […]
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 […]
[PDF file]: […] this is undoubtedly true. Orwell, however, was not ‘appropriated’ by British intelligence services. He willingly cooperated with them, particularly in passing on the names of suspected 1 Communist fellow-travellers. Referring to the abolition of the Central Office of Information in 2011, Anthony also states (p. 20), ‘The constraints on centralised state power that existed […]
[PDF file]: […] which, for much of the 1930s, had experienced a severe economic slump and large-scale joblessness, followed by sluggish growth. Organised labour, represented politically by socialist, socialdemocratic and communist organizations, became as critical to the war effort as the armed forces. This process was visible in states such as the UK which remained free throughout […]
[PDF file]: […] the left of the Labour Party in Parliament and the constituencies, the large trade unions (notably the Transport and General Workers and the Engineering Workers) and the Communist Party. Their most articulate spokesperson was Tony Benn, Industry Secretary in Harold Wilson’s Labour government at the time. The case made by Benn and his supporters […]
