The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[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, […]

The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford doctorate. His investigative methods are a model combination of historical perspective, extensive archival research in an area ‘where information and disinformation […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] US Army Intelligence retained much of its authority to spy on political dissidents, the increasing industrialisation catalysed by the war mobilisation created a greater threat from organised labour. Private industry had been able to suppress unionisation with its own private police and detective agencies, like Pinkerton. The rapid expansion caused by the war effort […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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 […]

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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

Lobster Issue

[…] are over consuming and a shift in the direction of innovative activity. At the global level, too much of the world’s innovation has been directed at saving labour and too little at saving natural resources and protecting the environment – hardly surprising given that prices do not reflect the sacristy of natural resources. There […]

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

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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. […]

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