The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Furnival Jones, MI5’s Director, no previous Prime Minister had ever shown ‘such enthusiasm for regular up-to-the-minute reports during an industrial dispute’. Wilson was particularly pleased that the Communist Party headquarters was ‘comprehensively bugged’. And he actively encouraged rightwing union leaders to collaborate with MI5. One of the leading figures in the GMWU, Sir Harry […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] efforts of a third Republican, the conservative commentator and former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson.3 And what in ‘voodoo history’ – the phrase is that of former Communist and Murdoch columnist David Aaronovitch – has brought this trio together? The events of September 11 2001. 4 When the three Manhattan towers came down almost […]

Chris Hani book

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[…] 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 […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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 […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] important for the United States to put a stop to drug trafficking by some Central American leaders than it was to support them because they were anti- communist.’ 7 violations and relished exposing the hypocrisy of the Reagan administration’s war on drugs. Senators Kerry and Helms were ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations […]

Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been discovered some sixteen years before by Kevin Coogan in his study of Francis Parker Yockey, and it was in the pages of The Worker, the American Communist Party paper, where a front-page story was headlined, ‘American Nazis Establish Their National Headquarters in Queens’ (it got some facts wrong, like claiming it was Rockwell’s […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), offered him a bribe. Sniffing the political wind in Scotland three years later, Sillars recalls how when he told ‘virulently anti- Communist’ Labour National agent Sara Barker that we could lose to the SNP ‘she was incredulous’. Even before he was elected MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 […]

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