Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] still appears on toilets) – but as an adjective for any sort of ‘capitalism’ it is an oxymoron (just like the obverse notion of an ‘aristocracy of labour’, which at least was deliberately ironic). The cult of the ‘gentleman’ in the 19th century was part of a cultural strategy for assimilating manufacturers (presumably with […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] for the Bush way of doing things. Harken Energy was formed in 1973 by two oilmen who would benefit from a successful covert effort to destabilise Australia’s Labour government (which had attempted to shut out foreign oil exploration). A decade later, Harken was sold to a new investment group headed by New York attorney […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] with links to 2,500 political sites. Includes MP biographies; Parties; pressure groups; campaigns; agencies; Councils page; local election results; archive; UK politics newsgroups; links. LabourNet http://www.labournet.org/ International Labour Solidarity Website ‘promotes computer communications as a medium for building international labour solidarity’. Started Nov 1995 to support the sacked Liverpool dockers fight for reinstatement. International […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] something else I came across The CIA in Australia, a five-part transcript of 1986 Australian radio programmes on the CIA’s operation to get rid of the Whitlam Labour government in Australia in the 1970s. (Originally, Watching Brief, Public Radio News Services, Melbourne, Australia, October-November 1986.) This is interesting stuff: the best account I have […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] The Guardian obit is by Chris Ryder, in the 1970s a media asset of the British Army, and Ryder portrays King as the man who showed the Labour Government in 1974 that the Ulster Workers’ Council general strike could not be resisted. Another perspective would put King in charge while the British Army and […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of the IRA.” ‘ According to Burns, the paper presented a scenario ‘in which a Labour government, acceding to trade union and other militant demands, radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] organisation all other development aid is at risk.” Currently no formal restrictions exist on the countries from which police officers might come for training. During the last Labour administration the then Minister of Overseas Development, Judith Hart, introduced a system of personal ministerial vetting, refusing to allow officers into the UK for training if […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] other staples to every Iraqi’.(22) What’s more, until sanctions and all the attendant misery and corruption, it was so prosperous that it was a net importer of labour, had a highly developed infrastructure, fabulous healthcare and superb universities. Which is to say, Iraq was never, ever, anything like Stalin’s Soviet Union. War intelligence, March […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] ‘THE PINAY CIRCLE’. CLOSE TO MI5\MI6 ‘ROMANTIC VICTORIAN-STYLE IMPERIAL RIGHT-WING STRATEGIST PRO SOUTH AFRICA EEC ISRAEL ANTI US UN ARAB REVOLUTION CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (BROTHER HANGED) PROGRESSIVE ON LABOUR RELATIONS. WIFE CATHERINE DAUGHTER OF HAROLD MACMILLAN’ DIR SOUTH AFRICAN MINING COMPANIES: VAAL REEFS EXPLORATION AND MINING CO LTD, WESTERN DEEP LEVELS LTD. CONSULTANT SEDGEWICK FORBES […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] emphases are mine. In the second line of the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. […]
