Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] BassettMatthews line (‘War and peace plots’, Lobster 51) on (i) Chamberlain’s flight to see Hitler in the Munich crisis (it was to avert a war, not a coup) and (ii) Philby’s criminal responsibility for prolonging World War Two. The latter point credits far too much influence to one individual. The fact was that the […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] transformed an old corporatist party engaged in industrial class war into a responsive modern European party of the democratic socialist Left. What actually happened was a ‘ coup du parti’ that chose immediate power over long-term sustainability. The democratic reform story is for another time. This memoir is only part of the story, of […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] (1) analyses CIA and White House records to show how the former made use of the Chilean media to help undermine Allende’s government prior to the military coup of 11 September 1973. Augustin Edwards (owner of the country’s leading newspaper, El Mercurio, and tactfully described as a Chilean Rupert Murdoch) had already been lobbying […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning with the 1953 coup in Iran and the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Since then the organisation has been involved in coups in South Vietnam in 1963, in Brazil in 1964, […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] Jones goes to Cuba In January 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista dictatorship, and seized power in Cuba. Land reforms followed within a few months of the coup, alienating foreign investors and the rich. By Summer, therefore, Cuba was in the midst of a low-intensity counter-revolution, with sabotage operations mounted from within and outside […]