[PDF file]: […] links to the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.’7 I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are […]
[PDF file]: […] SDP in the 1980s. In that latter period he also helped set up Heritage’s London operation, the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, while authoring anti- Labour material here alongside his old acquaintance Brian Crozier and 136 Winter 2010 in the United States with Roy Godson (Lobster 31 et seq). He is now […]
[PDF file]: […] representative roles and now see themselves as professional agents of the state who ally themselves with corporate fellow professionals. Starmer’s plan to go back to the Parliamentary Labour Party electing the party leader demonstrates this tendency. 11 12 13 See . Martin Parker, Against Management: Organization in the age of Managerialism (Cambridge: Polity, 2002) […]
[PDF file]: […] his best to take advantage 4 of the Notting Hill riots and of the murder of Kelso Cochrane, whipping up hatred. He then went after the former Labour MP, Patrick Gordon Walker, when he lost his Smethwick seat in the 1964 general election, after a viciously racist Tory election campaign in his constituency. When […]
[…] anything); a focus on monopoly not ownership as the root fault in capitalism; and a scepticism about democracy and emphasis on leadership. This dovetailed with the emerging Labour revisionism in the 1950s and Kelly notes how Flanders found the elite, factional atmosphere of 146 Winter 2010 the Campaign for Democratic Socialism, formed to defend […]
[PDF file]: […] indeed complicit, in a protracted massacre. The British response to Goldstone By the time Operation Cast Lead was carried out, Gordon Brown had replaced Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. Brown was absolutely committed to supporting Israel and to keeping in step with the United States but, at least initially, seems to have been […]
[PDF file]: […] union. In fact, by the late 40s there were many pro-European bodies of which the European Union of Federalists (within which Kim Mackay MP was a rare Labour supporter), the European League for Economic Co-operation (led by Josef Retinger) and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe were the most prominent.14 There […]
[…] policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. It had not occurred to ‘the posh boys’, any more than it had to their New Labour predecessors, that such policies had created the problems in the first place and they should look for alternatives. Ukraine and the left, again Covert Action Magazine […]
[…] interfere.’ Thus the opening paragraph by Kim Sengupta in his review of the Mark Curtis 26 book, Secret Affairs. I wrote about political contamination in ‘Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites’ in Lobster 33. 25 26 10 Community? Whatever that means! Can you think of anything more vague or more useless? Grauniadia […]
