The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, his predecessor as leader of the Labour Party. It claims that Gaitskell, a pro-American, had been assassinated by the KGB in order to install a communist sympathiser as probable future prime minister. Anatoly Golitsyn, a Soviet agent who had defected to the West, claimed that Wilson had been acting as a KGB […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Marx’s second blind spot was failure to appreciate the power and significance of nationalism. His and Engels’ call for workers of the world to unite in The Communist Manifesto was based on the conviction that, even by the late 1840s, the international expansion of capitalism including the working class without which it could not […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] Oswald owned a Mannlicher-Carcano; and as recent analysis seems to have confirmed, the photographs of him posing with the rifle and American left newspapers, both Trotskyist and Communist, were authentic (despite his claim that they had been faked).13 In his memoir Chauncey Holt tells us that, in the months before the assassination, the weapons […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

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[PDF file]: A Work of Camouflage Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2024, £25 h/b John Newsinger What is most interesting about this posthumous memoir by General Frank Kitson is what it does not say, exactly how little it contributes to our knowledge and […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] also significant. There was the planning for a Baltic expedition, without air cover, in the autumn of 1939; the attempt at turning the war into an anti- communist campaign in Finland a few months later; the disastrous failure in Norway that this produced (which, ironically, propelled Churchill to power); the diversion of forces from […]

The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] information to run a modern economy. If it tried to erect a system of knowledge and values to this end it would end up as either a Communist or Fascist dictatorship. It could not allow people to think and act as they wished since it would be claiming a superior wisdom. Moreover its efforts […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only a […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of law, and strong defence 2. To encourage strong transatlantic links between Britain, Europe, and North America 3. To assist and encourage the peoples of the former communist countries and other oppressive regimes across the world as they adopt democracy 4. To foster greater contact between Western nations and those of the Middle East […]

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