The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, his predecessor as leader of the Labour Party. It claims that Gaitskell, a pro-American, had been assassinated by the KGB in order to install a communist sympathiser as probable future prime minister. Anatoly Golitsyn, a Soviet agent who had defected to the West, claimed that Wilson had been acting as a KGB […]

View from the bridge

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[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.32 […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] day by day, sometimes even hour by hour. To justify the killing of Lumumba and the installation of an American puppet, the CIA duly invented a ‘ communist plot’. Williams quotes Williams notes on p. 34: ‘By 1959, about 9 per cent of the world’s copper, 49 percent of cobalt (rising to 54 percent […]

View from the bridge

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[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.32 […]

The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] information to run a modern economy. If it tried to erect a system of knowledge and values to this end it would end up as either a Communist or Fascist dictatorship. It could not allow people to think and act as they wished since it would be claiming a superior wisdom. Moreover its efforts […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a superpower and a clear guarantor of peace. He does not see any threat to England from the Soviet Union, just as he does not see a communist threat in his country in general. In the meantime, good relations with such a country (i.e. if the Soviet Union views him, Hayward, as a major […]

View from the bridge

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[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.18 […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] presented to their supervisors back home as intelligence-gathering and some of those with whom they were talking described as ‘agents’. Stonehouse was an interesting figure: an anti- communist, anti-imperialist member of the Labour and Co-operative Party. Julia Stonehouse refers, in passing, to an article her father wrote which was published in a 1959 collection, […]

view from bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.18 […]

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