The view from the bridge

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[…] remains unclear to me but my guess would be that they were what they seemed: Permindex was a CIA front and il Paese Sera was not a Communist front. what we might call friends of Lyndon were murdering people in Texas was hinted at in 1964 by Texan politician J. Evetts Haley. He had […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

Shameless!

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 review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] 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 […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] to those in the UK who wished to end the war. One of these was Anna Wolkoff, a member of The Right Club, a virulently antisemitic, anti- communist, group led by Archibald Maule Ramsay MP.8 She Right Club members and supporters included 12 MPs and 5 Lords. See Richard Griffiths, Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, […]

GArrick Kill chain 1 -7 pix copy 4

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[…] 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 […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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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 […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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 […]

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