[…] late, but this issue is late. The explanation is that the Ramsay half of this operation was persuaded to spend April as an election agent for the Labour party. (And lost!). If the Labour Party and the Lobster seems an odd combination, it is worth pointing out that several of the people at the […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: The Corbyn years John Booth Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire London: The Bodley Head, 2020, £18.99 This Land: The Story of a Movement Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2020, £20.00 When back in 2015 newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was first hit by critical […]
[…] House of Commons in 1976, under attack from his own benches during a debate on public expenditure, turning round at the despatch box and shouting to his Labour critics: ‘And you can go and fuck yourselves.’ The most striking figure in the story, however, is Edward Heath, portrayed by Goodman as a centre-left European […]
The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay […]
[…] by a desire to expose corruption, crimes or wrongdoing. In Spycatcher, Peter Wright famously exposed the cabal of MI5 officers who had plotted to destabilise Harold Wilson’s Labour Government. He was motivated by a personal dispute with the service over his pension rights. Not long before his death, he admitted on national television that […]
[…] place where all sides could meet on neutral ground. When he refers to a ‘challenge to democracy’, it is economic failure to which he refers, not organised labour. An eminently fair-minded man he may be, but has he produced an interesting book? Yes he has, both in the story that he is aware that […]
[…] that the conventional narrative structure which is used to give sense and meaning to British politics was extremely misleading. Though the public is told that Tory and Labour are in opposition, that is not really the case. They are led to believe that the Liberal Democrats are an insurgent third party, but that is […]
[…] In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with the sacking of Labour councillors who rigged the city’s elections. Although warned repeatedly in advance (by very reputable civic figures) that an election was being corrupted, Birmingham Police were so […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist […]
