Newton on Keynes

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[…] 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 […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[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 […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] while trying to stay within their charter, and resisting the siren calls of ‘conspiracy theorists’. In the early 1970’s MI5 had concluded that the ‘threat’ of the Communist Party had declined; and switched resources to what Peter Wright sneeringly called the ‘far and wide left’ – the Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in […]

Brexit: an accident waiting to happen

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Trump team, many Conservative MP’s and UKIP have at least one thing in common: all have a visceral dislike of the EU, regarding it as a quasi- communist entity with which they will have no truck. In corporate management speak, we are going on a journey, caused by two countries with defective electoral systems; […]

Historical notes on the four freedoms

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which, for much of the 1930s, had experienced a severe economic slump and large-scale joblessness, followed by sluggish growth. Organised labour, represented politically by socialist, socialdemocratic and communist organizations, became as critical to the war effort as the armed forces. This process was visible in states such as the UK which remained free throughout […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 16. (The first five pages of chapter one describe Wynne’s arrest and transportation to the Lubyanka prison.) 22 loony faction of MI5 that were convinced there were communist sympathisers in the Harold Wilson’s Cabinet.23 Protecting the Trumps Donald Trump has many enemies and, in most cases, he would seem to be the one responsible […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

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