Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section he conflates events of the 1960s with the 1970s. He has a coup being plotted by David Stirling’s GB75 in 1974. For this there is no evidence and he offers none. Stirling was preoccupied by the ‘left threat’ in […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] Abroad, 1945-51’, writes that ‘The IRD was formed at the Foreign Office as a direct response to increasingly hostile Soviet propaganda in the wake of the communist coup in Prague, the escalating blockade of West Berlin and mounting pressure on Finland.’ Taylor in Michael Dockrill and John W. Young (eds.) 1989. 62 See, for […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] won a general election in 1978, then, the centre of gravity within the PLP may well have been further to the left. Thus, the idea of ‘a coup from the left’ was not an unreasonable deduction. Many considered it possible, including Corbyn’s local colleagues Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler from the other end of […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] and much of the hardware, originates from US corporations. There is an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Volman trained pro-U.S. cadres for Juan Bosch, the Kennedy administration’s great democratic hope in the Dominican Republic. (Elected president in 1962, Bosch was toppled by a military coup in the fall of 1963. His return to power was blocked in 1965 by President Johnson, who sent thousands of U.S. Marines to occupy the Dominican […]