Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist doctrine that the workers should ‘take no part in the bosses’ war’. A paid official and organiser of the ILP from 1940, he was monitored by MI5 but no action was taken against him. Perhaps this was because he was declared unfit for war service on medical grounds and thus never had to […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] the racism of empire’ from an early age. The report Morton produced was kept a close secret and forty years later, when Miller requested a copy from MI5, his request was acknowledged and then ignored. Miller goes on: ‘The Foreign Office had a file called “Sri Lanka Security: Assessment 1978”. That file was destroyed […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] say, Hollywood movie moguls. Ostensibly part of a chieftain rolling programme – Sir John’s speech followed those given by the director of GCHQ and directors general of MI5 – the statement was the finale to an impressive three pronged SIS PR campaign. In addition to Sir John’s talk, this comprised the September launches of […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] There was a brief media orgasm at the end of the first week of April when it was announced that Prince William had been ‘working’ at MI6, MI5 and GCHQ respectively for the previous three weeks. The scale of excitement in the reporting ranged from the fairly sober BBC (‘The Duke of Cambridge has […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] I went to The Guardian in Manchester, UK and met with their then Northern Correspondent. I showed him correspondence from UK-Cabinet Minister Hazel Blears (then responsible for MI5 and Special Branch) that proves that my complaints are being covered-up. He was appalled and told me that he would recommend to his Editor that an […]