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The View from the Bridge
The view from the bridge
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
View from Bridge 87
Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book
[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 […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] Free on 16 July: ‘The core of New Labour was a bitchy queen, a depressive fawner upon powerful men, a couple of messianics, a coterie of ex- Communist Party opportunists, a few jaded, modist “thinkers” and a young Praetorian guard of ambitious student politicians and assorted money-grubbing lobbyists. A bit more complicated than this? […]
Holding Pattern
Still thinking about Dallas
[PDF file]: […] Oswald owned a Mannlicher-Carcano; and as recent analysis seems to have confirmed, the photographs of him posing with the rifle and American left newspapers, both Trotskyist and Communist, were authentic (despite his claim that they had been faked).13 In his memoir Chauncey Holt tells us that, in the months before the assassination, the weapons […]
A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars
[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 […]