A (very) brief history of Christian politics in the United States

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who made his living as a travelling preacher. One night, while lying in bed fretting about socialists, Wobblies, and a Swedish Communist who, he was sure, planned to bring Seattle under the control of Moscow, Vereide received a visitation: a voice, and a light in the dark, bright […]

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Marching to the fault line: The 1984 miners’ strike and the death of industrial Britain

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] – Hencke has been reporting on the British political scene from a centre-left perspective for over 25 years and Beckett has a written a history of the Communist Party of Great Britain (3) – I do not see how this can be anything but deliberately misleading. As the authors surely know, Mrs Thatcher used […]

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Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] United States Government which stated its opposition to the overthrow of a democratically elected government and, under the requirement of U.S. law, suspended aid to Fiji. Background Communist media were quick to imply some U.S. involvement in the coup. Many of these implications were repeated by non-communist media world-wide, and in some cases repeated […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code’

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] clearly his own man but there is now good reason to take a much greater interest in the close liaison between the Vatican and the various anti- communist intelligence operations which developed in Europe under the wing of the United States and that are now coalescing into the pan-European security agency of a new […]

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Digression 3

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] Western Goals, with its financial base and its high-powered board (Singlaub, Teller, Admiral Moorer et al) has to be taken seriously. * * * The British Anti- Communist Council (BACC), the current UK affiliate to the World Anti-Communist League, has as its President and Secretary, Patrick Wall MP and Jill Knight MP respectively. Wall’s […]

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The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] of the SAS who turned the tide. This is nonsense. Given that the majority Malay population was firmly enlisted on the British side in the conflict, a Communist victory was never likely in Malaya. The decisive part in the defeat of the insurgency was actually played by the Briggs Plan and the commitment of […]

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Common Cause

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

The British Right – scratching the surface Another strand in the de Courcy and ex-IPG member network links it to Common Cause, the nominally anti- Communist group which, like the Economic League, keeps files on the British Left and the unions. (17) Information on Common Cause is sparse. According to a report in The […]

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Paranoia is what the other guy has

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] the idea that the Vietnamese communists were working as the puppets of the Chinese and the Russians as part of an orchestrated plan of Asiatic conquest. The communist world constituted a vast, ruthlessly disciplined left-wing conspiracy and a victory for North Vietnam would inevitably lead to the domination of Indochina, and perhaps all of […]

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The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] a hard nut to crack and the KGB was a ruthless opponent. There was little doubt as to the immediate post-war Soviet aim of bringing Austria under Communist control. After the 1947 crackdown in Romania and Hungary, the main KGB staff were transferred to the Russian HQ at Baden-bei-Wien, the scene of Prince Orlovsky’s […]

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Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] Left, the Temple went out of its way to forge alliances with leaders of those same organizations: e.g. with the Black Panthers’ Huey Newton and with the Communist Party’s Angela Davis. Yet, despite these associations, and its ultra-left orientation, we are told that the Temple was not a target of investigation by either intelligence […]

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