Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a dupe, rather than simple Soviet mischief-making. This disinformation was surfaced in Italy, a country about which the Americans were still paranoid, believing that it might go communist at the drop of a hat and dominate the Mediterranean. So from a Soviet point of view, they got two “hits” for the price of one: […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] revolution was apparently very much on the agenda, way back in the 1960s and 1970s. Then the country was in the grip of ‘industrial anarchy organised by communist conspirators’ (p. xvi). This might seem somewhat perverse as he also considers Britain at this time to have had a ‘socialist economy imposed by Labour governments […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] activities to tie the need for a new centre party to allegations of Militant’s ‘infiltration’ of the Labour Party as well as Labour MPs’ links to the Communist Party of Great Britain. The concerted propaganda campaign against Militant was based around Reg Prentice MP. Taaffe stated that the same voices defending Prentice were increasingly […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] and her great rival in the Labour Party, James Callaghan. In her view “that was the moment”.’ 10 In a review of Willie Thompson’s history of the Communist Party, John Torode11 also referred to the Barbara Castle proposals on industrial reform and attributed a significant role in their rejection to the Communist Party of […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Soviet Union. Disliked by Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, Cripps had actually been expelled from the Labour Party in January 1939 for advocating a Popular Front with the Communist Party. Like Hoare he kept his seat in Parliament as MP for Bristol South East. All these measures were taken in the knowledge that there wasn’t […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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