The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] controls over the currency and over capital movements. China does not possess the conviction that private economic activity trumps public enterprise, that government should be small, organised labour suppressed, trade free and international capital flows unhindered. Its assistance for developing nations is not accompanied by requirements that states cut spending, privatise public industries and […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] roles of business and politicians in Pretoria and London and the conspiracy hatched with the Lord’s cricket establishment. When I then mentioned his critical book on New Labour spin doctor and ‘dodgy dossier’ man Alastair Campbell, his pamphlet and TV documentary on the power of the Israeli lobby, his principled resignation from The Daily […]

Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000

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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 […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

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[PDF file]: […] critiques of the current U.S. economic crisis – e.g. the Monthly Review. Professor Gilpin of Princeton, whose authority is recognised by such establishment audiences as the Senate Labour Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations, has persuasively challenged Jerry J. Berman and Morton H. Halperin (eds) The Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies (Washington, the […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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 […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] but having received about 30% of the votes cast in the elections of 1974 and 76, they hardly had a mandate for revolution. But the little that Labour and the unions did deliver was too much for the the middle and upper classes. A more equal society means the prosperous lose more via taxation. […]

View from the bridge

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[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.17 Alas, we don’t live in a world in which the leader of the Labour Party will stand up and say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrant-friendly by downscaled 10 and outsourced whites.’ Substitute New Labour for Democrats . . . Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men,11 is a 10 11 Downloadable at . 4 Wallace, […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the German Army, denying that the German Generals had any responsibility for Nazi war crimes. Interestingly, von Manstein’s defence was led by a top British lawyer, the Labour MP Reginald Paget.1 Despite all this, von Manstein still got eighteen years for his crimes, but was released after four.2 As for occupied Germany, Kitson fondly […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] China. At the same time, the identity politics/lifestyle wing of the Democratic Party was seen as a too illegal immigrantfriendly by downscaled and outsourced whites.’6 Substitute New Labour for Democrats….. Guilty Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men7 is a terrific account of the creation and effects of groupthink among […]

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