Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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[PDF file]: […] links to the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal parties – chiefly the Labour Party – during 1974-76.’7 I recognised this as a paragraph I wrote in Lobster 11. But what has been […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] policies the IMF would have imposed had they been called in. It had not occurred to ‘the posh boys’, any more than it had to their New Labour predecessors, that such policies had created the problems in the first place and they should look for alternatives. Ukraine and the left, again Covert Action Magazine […]

The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

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[PDF file]: […] throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford doctorate. His investigative methods are a model combination of historical perspective, extensive archival research in an area ‘where information and disinformation […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it.’ See . 6 An excellent summary of how this tactic is used was provided by Jess Phillips ( Labour MP for Birmingham, Yardley) in the Huffington Post. See or . 7 Time magazine listed a top 10 of those failures at 8 appetite for litigation […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

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[PDF file]: […] representative roles and now see themselves as professional agents of the state who ally themselves with corporate fellow professionals. Starmer’s plan to go back to the Parliamentary Labour Party electing the party leader demonstrates this tendency. 11 12 13 See . Martin Parker, Against Management: Organization in the age of Managerialism (Cambridge: Polity, 2002) […]

The Conversation

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[PDF file]: […] a landslide.1 I don’t often find myself in agreement with former Murdoch hack Andrew Neil, but the above paragraph is hard to disagree with. The message the Labour Party leader wishes to disseminate is that ‘Labour is open for business’ and is the party of business. To this end Keir Starmer might earn for […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[…] are over consuming and a shift in the direction of innovative activity. At the global level, too much of the world’s innovation has been directed at saving labour and too little at saving natural resources and protecting the environment – hardly surprising given that prices do not reflect the sacristy of natural resources. There […]

The Henry Jackson Society and the degeneration of British Neoconservatism: Liberal interventionism, Islamophobia and the ‘war of terror’ by Tom Griffin, et al

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[PDF file]: […] the role of William Shawcross as chairman of the Charity Commission and the Henry Jackson Society’s (HJS) sources of funding. They point out that a few New Labour luminaries, including departed Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy and convicted fraudster Denis MacShane, are part of the HJS circle that strongly backed the Iraq war and […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] we shall ever know the scale of British complicity in this crime. There is also the determination of retired generals and politicians from both the Conservative and Labour parties to cover up the reality of the war in Afghanistan. Without any shame whatsoever, the war was portrayed as being about the protection and extension […]

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