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 62 (Winter 2011)
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’ […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] and a number of his friends and colleagues were expelled from the ILP for opposing cooperation with the Labour Party. They remained together and joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a very small Trotskyist faction whose most prominent members were Ted Grant and Gerry Healy. Like them, Smith regarded the Labour Party 1945 election […]
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 […]