Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the trade union movement as being under the control of Russian agents did not have the seismic impact they hoped for. But Bower evidently considers the s tory as still being of use. Harold Wilson, we are told, had been warned by MI5 that ‘a raft of British trade union leaders were being paid […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] November 9 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, and September 11 2001, with the attacks on New York and Washington. So this is a social his tory of Britain during not only the first post-Cold War decade but also (to date) the most hopeful. There was to be a ‘new world order’, supervised […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] so – not expecting it ever to come to light – no-one at Number 10 bothered to go through the redundant procedural rigmarole of vetting him again. Tory Party like it’s 1992 A nd so the Miliband rocket proved to be a damp squib at the ballot booth and now the brothers (and sisters) […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s s tory can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + Nigeria’. The comments in the online condolence book for Smith1 show that Harold was held in high regard […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] heart of anti-socialist campaigns, caucuses and clandestine operations in British trade unions since the war. This essay is about those operations. (That Tribune thought the Jordan s tory worthy of just one line on page 3 shows how little this area is understood in Britain – even on the left.) Debts I am grateful […]