View from the bridge

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[…] who knows how many were active? Even so, did the other members of the Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union itself really have another 180,00 agents? *new* Labour Together The group which funded Keir Starmer’s run at the leadership of the Labour Party, Labour Together, was discussed in Lobster 88.5 The essential Open Democracy […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Harold Macmillan, yet he made less impression than any of those figures even at the time.’ A fair point, although his elevation to the premiership certainly had Labour rattled, rightly as it turned out on election night two years later. ‘The Conservatives have found their Attlee,’ said Lord (Douglas) Jay at the time in […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] to me and may explain why ‘fund manager’ Jeremy Hosking is preparing to spend getting on for a £1 million of his money trying to unseat pro-Remain Labour MPs in the election, to prevent ‘backsliding on Brexit’. Hosking said ‘that new Tory MPs from traditionally Labour-held seats would help safeguard a “full, national 5 […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] a great many people. Given the importance of the CPGB on the British left, in the trade unions and as a source of both policy for the Labour Party and problems for Labour governments, it would be difficult to overstate the political significance of this. One of the reasons the UK did not become […]

Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with which to beat the Left, he played into the hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media […]

The crisis

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: The crisis Robin Ramsay The political problem Sitting in the pub, a friend of mine said he couldn’t understand what was going on in the Labour Party at the moment. I said something to the effect that they had a problem: almost everything they believed about economic policy for the past 25 years was […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] a great many people. Given the importance of the CPGB on the British left, in the trade unions and as a source of both policy for the Labour Party and problems for Labour governments, it would be difficult to overstate the political significance of this. One of the reasons the UK did not become […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] fragments we could. Three things have changed. There are now mountains of information in the major media; there is no point in pushing this material at the Labour Party in the hope of getting political action because they 8 9 10 11 5 Brain waves Three significant pieces warning us about the dangers of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] fragments we could. Three things have changed. There are now mountains of information in the major media; there is no point in pushing this material at the Labour Party in the hope of getting political action because 8 9 10 11 they will do nothing;1 2 and the secret state no longer seems as […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] would be pulped; but it wasn’t. Some years later I received an anonymous phone call. A middle aged man with an RP accent told me that the Labour Party had contacted the publisher of PCP and offered to pay to suppress the book. How thrilling! Then I asked how much was offered: £5000. Which […]

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