Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Atkinson’s on his site, you will understand this. Here are two quotations. The first is from Elliott and Atkinson (p. 282) quoting the late Peter Shore, sometime Labour cabinet minister and one of the few Labour MPs to understand political economy. ‘Peter Shore asked how a country was to regain competitiveness once it had […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] have been enough to avoid this entanglement. What we have to deal with in both Afghanistan and Iraq is American hubris, something into which Tony Blair’s New Labour government wholly and disastrously bought. One criticism of the book is Farrell’s readiness to sometimes accept official sophistries at face value. So, we are seriously told […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] but as ‘Laura Corbyn’. – Bower frequently accuses Corbyn of being a Trotskyite. Elsewhere he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] Crozier,3 Julian Lewis,4 a man from Aims of Industry whose name I’ve forgotten and another man who I never identified.5 How to make the public realise that Labour is still dominated by Militants, Communists and Marxists.’ Wyatt of course was a close friend of Mr Murdoch (until the 1990s, when the tycoon decided that […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the May administration embarked on this course? The answer lies in the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party. Ever since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) became an objective of large-scale business and finance […]