The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] recent decades very much a minority position among European Jews.”   “it is an internalisation of gentile anti-Semitism, with which it has collaborated, including in the mass murder of Jews, such as in the Holocaust, by real anti-Semites.”   “far from being a pro-Jewish stance, Zionism in the 19th and early 20th centuries was […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] especially in the US, is convinced that the persistence of slavery, genocide, and all the other elements of colonialism/imperialism in the US Empire were ‘unintentional’. The regular murder of Blacks by police in the US is not intentional. Lynching was never intentional. In a country whose official explanation for all economic injustice is the […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] War, Stone describes the 1948 death of the Czech politician Jan Masaryk, who was found lying on the pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] seen as the ability to reduce all forms of power to a clear and transparent set of rules (e.g. the EU). On the In Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces To Clinton’s Columbine and beyond (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2005) 3 other there is a rebellion against the truth (that […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] tall building – are urging an independent inquiry into the Manhattan collapses?1 0 How are we to see the Bush administration’s reluctance to investigate the greatest mass murder in US history and its refusal to disclose material evidence as anything other than a suspicious, if not guilty, demeanour?1 1 How, moreover, are we to […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime was responsible for the murder of at least 3000 Chileans who had backed Allende, while thousands more were imprisoned and tortured and tens of thousands driven into exile. It was not […]

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