The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet’s regime was responsible for the murder of at least 3000 Chileans who had backed Allende, while thousands more were imprisoned and tortured and tens of thousands driven into exile. It was not […]

The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] tall building – are urging an independent inquiry into the Manhattan collapses?1 0 How are we to see the Bush administration’s reluctance to investigate the greatest mass murder in US history and its refusal to disclose material evidence as anything other than a suspicious, if not guilty, demeanour?1 1 How, moreover, are we to […]

lob65-pope-francis

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[…] or celebrities: i.e. no recognisable brand. As importantly, backed by the rise of South America, it gives global Christianity an economic and political power base that challenges murder emanating from minute pockets of some Muslim communities – while accelerating and embracing dialogue with Islam in general whose only figureheads in the West happen to […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] essay cited in note 17. 22 Once again we owe this to the incredibly assiduous John Simkin. See 23 And this may also explain (a) Mary Meyer’s murder and (b) the intense interest of James Angleton in her diary, which he found and suppressed. 24 p. 124 7 26 On Meyer’s anti-communism see . […]

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