Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] won a general election in 1978, then, the centre of gravity within the PLP may well have been further to the left. Thus, the idea of ‘a coup from the left’ was not an unreasonable deduction. Many considered it possible, including Corbyn’s local colleagues Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler from the other end of […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] and much of the hardware, originates from US corporations. There is an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Volman trained pro-U.S. cadres for Juan Bosch, the Kennedy administration’s great democratic hope in the Dominican Republic. (Elected president in 1962, Bosch was toppled by a military coup in the fall of 1963. His return to power was blocked in 1965 by President Johnson, who sent thousands of U.S. Marines to occupy the Dominican […]