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 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] muddling through’. But Butskellism wasn’t ‘simply muddling through’. The term came from merging the name of Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer R A Butler with that of Labour Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell and was coined in the mid 1950s, when there was a considerable consensus across the major political parties in the UK about how […]
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 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] capitalist states. Progressive politicians in these countries have no adequate answers and are reduced to complaining about governmental incompetence and technical glitches. (Just look at the British Labour Party’s response to the situation.) They have not grasped that the system is in need of much more than the equivalent of a good service, MOT […]