[PDF file]: […] not to bomb Libya – which, in keeping with the Western concept of democracy, happened two days after the bombing had started – the leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband (former Energy Secretary), informed Parliament: ‘We do not seek commercial gain or geopolitical advantage, and we are not intending to occupy Libya or […]
[…] a very good essay in the New Statesman by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, ‘The Thatcher delusion’.2 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] correspondence with political figures across Europe, pursuing these interests. She was a friend of Lord Beveridge, and her brother, Richard Denman, sat in Parliament as a Liberal, Labour and National Labour MP See John Lukacs, The Last European War (1976) pp. 59 and 66. 4 6 between 1910 and 1945.7 The question arises, did […]
[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 […]
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]: […] it should be no surprise that the run-up to crisis was hallmarked by imaginative ways of manufacturing this commodity (gambling), with a view to boosting returns to labour and capital. Risk illusion is no accident; it is there by design. It is in bank managers’ interest to make mirages seem like miracles.’ Even more […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
