Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] equivalents are working for their country. The murder of a British businessman who worked in China and was associated with the now disgraced Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief of Chongqing who was once tipped for high office, was characterised by systematic British media undermining of the dead man’s character (presumably because it […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] remains unclear to me but my guess would be that they were what they seemed: Permindex was a CIA front and il Paese Sera was not a Communist front. 16 He is probably not going to be invited to the annual banquet of the City of London’s Lord Mayor. The assertion I have italicised […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] or thought they could use – Goleniewski’s claim to be the surviving son of Tzar Nicholas of Russia. Most of them were part of the international anti- communist movement and many of This is the second recent book on Goleniewski. The first, by Tim Tate, was reviewed by me at . 4 It is […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘gentlemen’ professional soldiers, who came to be exemplified by Mike Hoare. Demobbed at the end of WWII with the rank of Major, and an admittedly virulent anti- Communist, he led the mercenary force which fought in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from July ‘64 to December ‘65. In those intense 18 months he […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the House of Lords (after being a Brexit Party MEP) is too striking to pass without mention. Both began their political lives as members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, whose remnants went way beyond parody when they accepted funding from the Koch brothers.63 A detailed account of this strange saga is to be had […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] while trying to stay within their charter, and resisting the siren calls of ‘conspiracy theorists’. In the early 1970’s MI5 had concluded that the ‘threat’ of the Communist Party had declined; and switched resources to what Peter Wright sneeringly called the ‘far and wide left’ – the Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] it was simply impossible to tell truth from fantasy, fact from fiction.’ (p. 200) On this account, IRD looks more significant that it has done previously. Its communist conspiracy idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British […]