The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Chile apart from most other Latin American states.19 The electoral verdict was favourable: having come to power in November 1970 with 37 per cent of the popular vote, Congressional elections in March 1973 saw Popular Unity increase its share to 44 per cent.20 At the same time as his Popular Unity government was driving […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] that forces inside and outside the Conservative Party which were determined to get rid of me would seek to use the all-party coalition campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote as the nucleus of a movement for a coalition of the ‘centre’.66 In 1975 Wilson’s ‘fear had become that I might be instrumental in forming a […]

Hope & Despair: Lifting the lid on the murky world of Scottish politics by Neil Findlay and But What Can I Do?: Why politics has gone so wrong, and how you can help fix it by Alastair Campbell

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was rapidly replaced by another,6 with media leaks by his right-wing party ‘comrades’ constantly undermining coherent opposition in Holyrood. He records on March 23 2019: The ‘People’s Vote’ campaign organised a march and rally in London with Nicola Sturgeon sharing a platform with, among others, Alastair Campbell, Tom Watson and Michael Heseltine. It was […]

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