The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] member of British United Industrialists); G.K. Young and Ross McWhirter. Another interesting member was Gerald Howarth. Howarth is the MP said recently to have been plotting the murder of Gerry Gable, but for our purposes his role in the early 1970s in the Prosecute Peter Hain campaign is more interesting. 37 Considering the overlapping […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] led him to set up a parliamentary inquiry headed by Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] he states that Corbyn’s ‘personal commitment to Stalinism set him apart from most Labour Party members.’ Trotskyites and Stalinists hate each other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] especially in the US, is convinced that the persistence of slavery, genocide, and all the other elements of colonialism/imperialism in the US Empire were ‘unintentional’. The regular murder of Blacks by police in the US is not intentional. Lynching was never intentional. In a country whose official explanation for all economic injustice is the […]

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