Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] model of long-term growth theory operating under the framework of neoclassical economics’. (p. 67) This is an economic formula which purports to show the relationship between capital, labour and technology in creating GDP growth. I am not an economist, so I cannot say to what degree this longstanding theory (dating from 1957) would uphold […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] – were saved by billions in drug money in 2008? Does the fact that Japan exploited both Korea and Vietnam to provide cheap food for its industrial labour force have any bearing on the US decision to invade those countries when its official Asia policy was to rebuild Japan as an Asian platform for […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] summation of the noninvestigation of Zangara’s intriguing background, and of the diverted rush to Zangara was originally tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years hard labour. Soon after that, he was tried for murder, because one of the bystanders hit by his bullets – Chicago mayor Anton Cermak – died when his […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] about his fellow correspondents in Berlin and the various proprietors they worked for. Certainly, Rothermere seems to have been the worst, although Clement Attlee did apparently describe Lord Beaverbrook as ‘the only evil man I ever met’. (p. 121) John Newsinger is working on a book on the Labour Party’s foreign, defence and colonial policies.
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] this, all political parties continue to follow the example of Boris Johnson and assert that they can have their cake and eat it. Those who think the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is an exception should look at his interview with Robert Peston.16 In my view this is no time for equivocation. We are […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] been deriding only a few days, let alone weeks, earlier. In a way their experience was a more vivid, concentrated and dramatic version of what happened to Labour after Neil Kinnock embraced the liberal rather than the social-democratic path to ‘modernisation’ after 1987. Maybe the result of the 1979 election was the watershed here […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] — the precursor to the Cuba embargo — US domestic and foreign policy have been consistently, even fanatically, driven by the imperative to keep its African slave labour force isolated from 1 Horne (2014), p. 170 2 At and . the rest of the world.3 The US regime has pursued a wide range of […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] mass media. Who else is going to control it? Germany is a successful capitalist state. Its two big political parties, the rough equivalents of Britain’s Conservative and Labour Parties, are largely integrated into the German state though the foundations (stiftungen) linked to them. The trade unions are integrated into capitalism through the German industrial […]