Behind right-wing conspiracy theories

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] seriously.Incidentally, Count Otto von Hapsburg, the diplomat who the authors claim to be a member of the Priory, also features in the conspiracy theories of the US Labour Party. The belief in sinister and mysterious bodies that are deliberately spreading diseases is a very clear link between the witch mania of the Reformation and […]

Enduring Freedom

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] February that more than 11,000 injured had been through Andrews air force base in the previous nine months and the real figure was probably higher than that. Mike Small is one of an editorial group running Indymedia Scotland – – and is writing a book on ‘Blairusconi: the New Labour Project and the Italian Right’.

Errors, corrections and updates

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] been overcome: Preston will send a copy of the entire piece (eight, A4 pages) to anyone who sends a stamped, addressed, A4 envelope to him at Independent Labour Publications (ILP), 49 Top Moor Side, Leeds, LS11 9LW. I strongly recommended this to anyone interested in the Harry Newton story. Re: Class War One of […]

The Road to 9/11

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] is much harder than it looks at the outset; at any rate it is with the kind of knowledge which people like Scott have to offer and the kind of limp, career-minded politicians we now have in the Democratic and Labour parties. This is vintage Scott. He remains my model of how to do this.

The Jewish Holocaust: held captive by its remembrance or liberated by its lessons?

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] to decipher Israel,’ he says, ‘and if you wish to understand Israel, examine the world within which you live.’ But that apart, the views of the former Labour MP, whose father fled Germany in September 1939 and whose Hebron mother survived the Arab massacre 10 years earlier, could scarcely be more different. Burg is […]

The Dust Has Never Settled

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] diverse as Rudolf Hess in Britain, the peace plots of 1940, and black magic circles in South Wales (those three all linked together, incidentally); Blunt and Burgess; Labour Party politicians, war-time diplomacy and the sexual habits of Mrs Simpson and a great many others; the rise of Ian Paisley, Kincora and John McKeague etc. […]

The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] our boys and girls in uniform by questioning their mission. For most of the rest of the time – not many long periods without wars under New Labour – critics have usually been charged with being anti-American and/or soft on communism or terrorism. The history of the decline and fall of other great powers […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] phenomenon can be seen in the two pieces on the Economic League by Arthur McIvor. The version for the Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, Spring 1988, is titled ‘Political blacklisting and anti-socialist activity between the wars.’ But for the Journal of Contemporary History Vol 23, 1988, it became ‘A […]

Fantasy Island

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] Stern Report on global warming (now safely dumped into the recycling bin and forgotten in Whitehall) that ‘it was the perfect report for the government………..it allowed New Labour to say that it was necessary to make “hard choices” while at the same time validating the failure to make a choice. This was the party […]

Fool’s Gold: The Story of North Sea Oil

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] of, in fact, up to and including little hints about possible parapolitical dimensions. Did the US oil companies help the SDP to ensure the demise of a Labour government which might have imposed more conditions on them? Did the US government help fund the Scottish National Party in the 1970s? These questions are not […]

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