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’. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee trying to deal with unauthorised exposure of intelligence material was itself exposed in […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers and civilians in Britain during the First World War – David Englander – in British Society for the Study of Labour History, Volume 52, No.1, 1987 The Ideology of the British Right, 1918-39 G.C. Webber – Croom Helm, London 1987 Ideological Hegemony and Political Control: the sociology […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] to be drawn up and included in statute (6). I will sum up this section by saying that the period of change from the older industrial and labour intensive means of production to the new, high technology and labour atomised means, has been characterised by a series of industry-based mass struggles between labour and […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] against the minority in employment. I welcome that, but if it is good enough for Northern Ireland, why do the British Government do everything possible to prevent Labour councils in Britain that wish to adopt similar policies from ending discrimination against minorities in Britain? We shall not be able to unite the people of […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] that after his maiden speech: ‘Rumours began to circulate that Kinnock had been warned by MI5 that if he did pursue these claims, then damaging stories about Labour MPs’ sexual and financial peccadilloes would be leaked to journalists. MI5 wasn’t joking. Pictures of a married former Labour cabinet minister in the company of two […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] actually existed. These four new ones plus two from Wallace’s files and the notorious Edward Short Swiss bank account, have been published as a pamphlet, The Anti- Labour Forgeries, by Labour CRISIS – PO Box 102, Hull HU2 0PX, priced £1.50. At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] MI5 officer, since we first broke the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of ‘concrete evidence’ that senior Labour ministers had ‘worked for the Security Services’. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very simple: we knew it was completely […]