Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] was murdered in the streets of New York. The case against New York Mafioso, Carmine Galante of the Bonanno family, might have seemed air-tight; he was under surveillance at that time, for parole violation, and thus was placed in the murder vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not […]

The rule of the tech lords

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] the Perplexed Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff London: Allen Lane, 2026, £25 h/b * The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State Michael Steinberger London: Simon and Schuster, 2025, £20 p/b In 1996 there were no tech companies among the top five companies traded on US exchanges, […]

Newsinger The Rule of the Tech Lords

Lobster Issue

[…] the Perplexed Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff London: Allen Lane, 2026, £25 h/b * The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State Michael Steinberger London: Simon and Schuster, 2025, £20 p/b In 1996 there were no tech companies among the top five companies traded on US exchanges, […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two members of the Party’s International Department, Eileen Palmer and Bob Stewart, from the north London […]

Newsinger Uproar

Lobster Issue

[…] his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] a former Commander in the RN with all kinds of secret knowledge about the war against Argentina, was talking to his anti-nuclear, peacenik aunt: full bore investigation; surveillance, phonetaps, mail intercepts, burglaries, harassment. Whatever it takes. And this would have begun before Murrell’s death. Green notes on p. 48: ‘I would have come under […]

The Defence of the Realm

Lobster Issue

[…] this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two members of the Party’s International Department, Eileen Palmer and Bob Stewart, from the north London […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] ban on such activities by telling the local US Customs Service office that his boat wasn’t fit to sail and needed repairs. The Customs Service obligingly reduced surveillance on Quiza’s vessel on 6 June and, of course, the raiding party immediately set off for Cuba. Naturally, the Customs office was ‘upset and embarrassed by […]

lob81-british-gladio2

Lobster Issue

[…] Assistance10 and David Stirling’s GB75 – had been formed to combat the ‘threat’ from the left.11 The Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal […]

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