Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party Colin Challen I feel compelled to respond to John Booth’s excellent article on ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party. I write as one who has 35 years membership of the party, most of which years were spent as a Labour Councillor, an employed organiser of the party and latterly an […]

Labour, Corbyn and anti-semitism

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: Labour, Corbyn and anti-semitism John Booth Anyone reading and hearing about Labour’s annual conference in Brighton might have thought it riven by yet more acrimonious controversy over antisemitism. From The Guardian to the Daily Express and the broadcast journalists in between that was the big story for those critical of the party under […]

International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of ‘the communist threat’. This left revisionist thesis, specifically […]

The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US- European Relations (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] that marked the ERP as a significant intervention in West European affairs. The New Deal coalition, of internationalists in Washington and ‘capital-intensive firms and their allies among labour, farm, financial, and professional groups’, sought to stabilise West European societies by pursuing a form of Keynesianism: demand management, welfare provision, high employment levels, and class […]

The Rebel Who Lost His Cause: the tragedy of John Beckett MP

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

Francis Beckett London House, 1999, £20 John Beckett has always been an enigma: the fiery left wing Labour MP who became one of Mosley’s fascists, an unrepentant anti-Semite and war-time internee. How to explain this trajectory? Francis Beckett’s new biography is of particular interest because it is an attempt by the man’s son, a […]

Enemies Within?

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] part of the anti-subversion lobby in 1974 and 5! All their theories were being substantiated! The Russians ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. It was simple: all you had to do was follow the money! To this theory the Communist Party itself contributed by boasting of its influence […]

Defector Politics: or, grooving with Mr G.

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] Mr G’s current sponsors. Crozier gets first bite The present burst of G-exploitation false-started in 1993 with Brian Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent. On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as ‘confidential contacts’ of the Soviet embassy and ‘fellow travelling MPs’. […]

Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] first inkling of this was in September 1951. One of de Courcy’s publications had published some smear material about Hugh Dalton, curiously enough, who had been a Labour Cabinet minister and who had been linked to the scandal surrounding the Lynsky Tribunal. At the same time there was another smear campaign against John Strachey, […]

Fifth Column: Plots, smoke and mirrors – managing our Muslim brothers

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] is it that small town, suburban and rural Muslims can be integrated into the community through sensitive policing whereas the radicalisation of urban Muslims is undercutting the Labour vote in the big cities and ‘something must be done’? I am beyond my competency in second-guessing either the politicians or the security services but there […]

More Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] by Ernie Roberts, 13-15 High St, St. Mary Gray, Orpington,BR5 3NL. £6.95 (including p and p) This is a self-published memoir by the recently deceased, former left-wing Labour MP: meetings I went to, strikes I was involved in, campaigns I conducted – dull stuff for the most part (or the texture of real life […]

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