Transnational Classes and International Relations

Mike Peters

Kees van der Pijl Routledge, 1998, £15.95 From the late 1970s a group of Dutch academic Marxists – including Henk Overbeek, Meindert Fennema, Frans Stokman, Robert J. Mokken and Kees van der Pijl – began studying networks of capitalist power, setting up their own international scholarly network in the process (involving, among others, Beth ... Read more

To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

Twitter (“X”)

Avatar Lobster Magazine @lobstermagazine ·

20 Nov

Column extras. Oswald and the Angleton mole hunt; the British-American Project again; the myth of Britain's economic ranking; the Cold War's arms race inverted; the passing of Tony Bunyan; more.

Robin Ramsay's "View from the Bridge" has been updated.

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/the-view-from-the-bridge-52/

Avatar Lobster Magazine @lobstermagazine ·

20 Nov

"Hanton shows how US corporations own and effectively control the British economy, and how they siphon off vast profits while paying little or no tax."

John Booth (@JohnBooth2017) reviews Angus Hanton's "Vassal State: How American Runs Britain"

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/vassal-state-how-america-runs-britain-by-angus-hanton/

Avatar Lobster Magazine @lobstermagazine ·

14 Oct

Column extras. A US apologia (sort of) by the Council on Foreign Relations; a self-eulogy by Tony Blair; the Israel lobby again; a raspberry for Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" has been updated.

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/the-view-from-the-bridge-52/

Avatar Lobster Magazine @lobstermagazine ·

14 Oct

"TA reservists are officially civilians. Did Thatcher use this loophole as cover against allegations that the army was used against the miners?"

Scott Newton (@1956historian) in "Historical notes on The use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike"

🦞 https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/89/historical-notes-on-the-use-of-troops-during-the-1984-85-miners-strike/