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 75 (Summer 2018)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department (IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti- communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were […]