Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] interview in Steamshovel Press, no. 8, 1993. Her version of the File is available from her direct at PO Box 1292, Cragsmoor, NY 12420, USA for $14.95. Brown, Walt. The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Carroll and Graf/Richard Gallen, 1992. xix plus 651 pp. Bibliography, index. An honest work that attempts to […]

It’s all Jacques to me

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] back then, and I seem to remember noting this in Lobster, it was Geoff Mulgan who was responsible for the Labour programme of re-nationalisation, while helping out Brown. Hindsight carries with it some sort tang of self-awareness and here it is not just our leaders that are flying blind. I’ve never found anything of […]

Inside Gordon’s head

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

At a CBI conference in November last year Gordon Brown called for a ‘world-wide campaign in support of globalisation and its benefits. He said the anti-globalisation and protectionist forces ‘fail to recognise the great truth that free trade, open markets and flexibility are the preconditions of modern economic success’.Does he really believe this? The […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] Fizzland: the Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA’ in the American journal Labor History, vol. 39, No. 1, 1998 (pp. 25-42) Using the recently opened Irving Brown papers, as well as other new sources and interviews, Carew has plotted some of the activities of the CIA in the US and European labour movement […]

International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] Plan: Europe rebuilds with American money, buying American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the […]

My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] career, to Roy (now Lord) Hattersley. Lord Cashpoint’s memory A Foreign Office colleague of McShane and Foulkes under Blair was Michael Levy whose memoirs attacking Blair, Gordon Brown and the state of the Labour Party were serialised in The Mail on Sunday just before the May municipal elections. A Question of Honour was ghostwritten […]

Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest Gerald James Little and Brown, London, 1995(1) Some of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the Democrats and – by implication – how British politicians would compete for office in the future. Weston’s book, we were told, was being read by the Brown team during the parliamentary recess. Except Bush didn’t beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just […]

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