Is there a ‘political class’?

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the major political parties, leaving no settled institutional outlet for opposition or the construction of alternative policies and strategies. The most telling example of this was the Liberal performance last year: having gone into the General Election on a Keynesian politicoeconomic platform some way to the left of the other two major parties, they […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] and reading the private cables of antiwar leaders. Before long, the FBI was tapping the phones of key Republican leaders as well.1 9 Even the President’s passionately liberal wife, Eleanor, came under Hoover’s close scrutiny. FBI informants kept the bureau apprised of her many social and political associates 18 Flynt and Eisenbach, One Nation […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] it was lacking in empathy and humanity. And it left its dead on the street. (p. 50) What replaced the decayed ruins of Stalinism, however, was not liberal capitalist democracy, but the authoritarian rule of a class of wholly corrupt super rich oligarchs. One interesting point he makes is that even after the collapse […]

Yockey: A Fascist Odyssey by Kerry Bolton

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: Lost Imperium? Yockey: 20 years later Yockey: A Fascist Odyssey Kerry Bolton Arktos: London, 2018, £30.50 (UK), p/b Kevin Coogan On 16 June 1960 Francis Parker Yockey, a 43-year-old far right international mystery man and author of the 1948 fascist opus Imperium, committed suicide in his San Francisco jail cell by swallowing a cyanide capsule. […]

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[…] weapons of war against Americans citizens. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. In a technical or structural sense, the […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Sally Walker, Garrick Alder and Nick Must for their work on this issue of Lobster. *new* The CIA and LSD There have been occasional hints in these pages that the psychedelic explosion in the USA and Western Europe in the ‘60s and early ‘70s might have […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Sally Walker, Garrick Alder and Nick Must for their work on this issue of Lobster. *new* Below is a letter from Steve Penney which appeared in The London Review of Books in the 23 April edition. A big ‘amen’ to this. Browned Off Andy Beckett seems […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] few advisors, and seemed resistant to reaching out beyond their small inner circle.’ What does this sound like? It sounds like NuLab. And it sounds like the Liberal Democrats. All three major parties are now in the grip of little cliques with predictable consequences: as the parties’ members are not of interest or value […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Sally Walker, Garrick Alder and Nick Must for their work on this issue of Lobster. *new* Mae Brussell What is going on at CovertAction? I was happy to see editor Kuzmarov taking on board the Kennedy assassination (with much help from Robert Morrow)1 but Mae Brussell? […]

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