[PDF file]: […] The World That Never Was. A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 2010. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander A s the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into […]
[PDF file]: […] scrambled her father’s brain and led to his failed attempt to fake his death on the beach in Miami, disappear, and start again in Australia with a new identity. The third major theme in the daughter’s book is the behaviour of the newspapers. Ms Stonehouse documents in enormous detail their endless speculation and fabrications […]
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[…] such ‘internal devaluation’ is supposed to bring. The global financial crisis of 2008/9 pushed the Greek economy off the cliff and into six years of crisis, borrowing new money to pay the interest on old loans, and the immiseration of much of the Greek population. This led to a coalition of the left, Syriza, […]
[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]
[PDF file]: […] of the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism and its tendentious examples was energetically promoted by Corbyn’s internal and external critics as the acid test of Labour’s decency and electability. Those, like Williamson, who did not immediately fall in line behind it became targets of the Israel lobby inside and outside […]
A review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001
[PDF file]: […] we have historical articles about the JFK assassination, 1970’s Wilsoniana, plots and rumours about early 1970’s private right wing armies like ‘Unison’, ‘Civil Assistance’, ‘GB75′ – whether real, psy-ops or authoritarian old soldiers’ fantasies. Then, through the 1980s, Lobster engages with current issues; Northern Ireland, the 1984 Miners’ Strike, CND, GCHQ, Falklands. As the […]
[PDF file]: […] to the original hard copy versions as is practicable. It remains just words (no pictures); the subject matter hasn’t changed. What has changed are (a) typeface: Times New Roman does not suit the screen; (b) there is only one column of text instead of two or three (with an infinite amount of space there […]
[…] by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, vol. 5, no. 2, 1994;2 and ‘Second-Hand Dealers in Ideas; Think-Tanks and Thatcherite Hegemony’ by Radhika Desai in the New Left Review, no. 203, 1994. Cockett, Desai and Harrison all cover some of the same ground: the rise of Thatcherism, the work of the Institute for […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action Issue #19 Summer 2001
[PDF file]: […] is on the murkey doings of governments, MI5 and other secret services, etc. All very revealing and worth it, just for the pub talk’ potential. However, the real star turn out now is the #19 Summer 2001 Lobster CD, which has on it every issue so far (1-40), including the special issue — Clandestine […]
