Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] state police affidavits justifying a raid on a West Philadelphia warehouse used by convention protesters, troopers alleged that communists were behind the demonstrations. “Funds allegedly originate with Communist and leftist parties and from sympathetic trade unions”, the state police declared in the affidavits. Other funds reportedly come from the former Soviet-allied World Federation of […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] stories about how he got into trouble for delivering guns to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua during the late 1970s. Once upon a time, the stories continued, the Communist Party invited him to join. But Ace turned them down ‘because they were too conservative.’ Ace was bright and articulate, in a gruff sort of way. […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] view that looked to the ‘world beyond the grave, of life everlasting’ and the messianism that focused on ‘this world of material power and possessions’. The Russian Communist regime, Knupffer said, was now being forced ‘slowly but surely’ to adjust itself ‘to the wishes and needs of the Russian people’. Since Moscow ‘is no […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] judged by outsiders Crozier has initiated with his group the project ‘Victory for Strauss’ using the tactics applied in Great Britain, of major themes such as the communist, extremist subversion of government parties and trade unions, KGB manipulation of terrorism and damage to internal security. The future form of the project will be left […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] to both. One historian observed of Johnson: ‘His political world was ridden with conspiracies, false fronts and secret pacts and agendas. Everywhere he turned, he saw a communist or a Kennedy or, in his most hallucinatory moments, a communist Kennedy …at times Johnson seemed to know that this was all nonsense…But when Johnson slipped […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Sir John Whitmore.(16) They visited Warsaw in 1974 where they set up a radio receiver, supposedly to receive signals about an imminent alien invasion of Earth. The Communist bloc took a dim view of this, considering (correctly in the case of Puharich) that they were CIA agents and expelling them. Seifer does not dwell […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] with the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department, MI5’s agents were encouraged to disrupt subversive organisations, even impregnating lavatory paper with an itching substance at halls hired by communist organisations.’ This is the first time such operations have been acknowledged. When this stopped and what it amounted to we do not know. (Presumably such operations […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] appear to be the standard populist, back-to-the-constitution stuff which now passes for thought on the further fringe of the U.S. right, liberally dosed with now rather archaic communist conspiracy stuff. In the pursuit of which, in an open letter to a U.S. senator, Coleman produces one of the great non-sequitors. ‘If you do not […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] greatest importance that these actions should be increased and become nation-wide occurrences.’ Bessie Braddock assured the reader that this ‘bears all the distinctive marks of a genuine Communist directive’. Although it is difficult to parody the Stalinist mind, I doubt that even the Cominform would actually have written that ‘new and concentrated effort must […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been portrayed as one of deception, secret funding, rigged ballots, suspected secret service penetration and lunatic purges.(1) His development of […]
