Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] on the work of David Horowitz for this. His readers are reminded that, while Obama’s father might well have been a Muslim, his mother was ‘a secular Communist’. Indeed, the Left with their new ‘liberaligion’ are facilitating the work of the Islamists, condemning anyone daring to make a stand as ‘a racist, an Islamophobe, […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] of the Jews 1933-49. Cesarani was descended from Italian immigrants to Britain and both his grandparents and parents were left-wing. His father, a hairdresser, had joined the Communist Party in the 1930s. As Cesarani puts it: ‘Neither my father nor my mother showed much interest in Israel…. For my father the Soviet Union was […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been forgotten. The Soviet ‘threat’ in the post-war years was […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] it clear it reserved the right to act independently. Traditionally regarding anything ‘China’ as their preserve, they considered Eden naïve (at best), the Emperor Bao a clear Communist stooge and Ho Chi Minh a ruthless conspirator controlled by Moscow. Within a few years, with the US actively promoting dissent and opposing anything less than […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] one hand) and personal liberalism (on the other) has been one of the most successful PR tricks in the history of political ideologies. Just as dissidents in Communist Russia were self-identified by default as opponents of their comrades, and hence enemies of the common Although there is, confusingly, some conceptual overlap, and it’s unclear […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] used aerial bombardment in their post-1945 colonial wars. How effective was it? In Malaya, the RAF dropped 35,000 tons of bombs and claimed to have killed 700 Communist guerrillas. This number of fatalities was almost certainly inflated, but even so this means that it took 5 tons of bombs to kill one guerrilla. The […]