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Monthly Archives: December 2013

The tale of the anti-Semitic Santa

December 23, 2013by James Robb 12 Comments

A few days ago a graphic was posted on ‘The Daily Blog’ entitled ‘Don’t forget to feed Christmas.’ Beside a grotesque Santa Claus image the text read, “Remember to support […]

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anti-Semitism, art, racism, working class, working class history

Prisoners in the US assert their humanity

December 18, 2013by James Robb 2 Comments

Workers wanting to fight back find ways and means no matter what situation they face. In 2013 the leading role in the international workers movement was taken by workers in some […]

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capitalist state, class struggle, democratic rights, prisoners' rights, prisons, racism, solidarity, solitary confinement, union busting, working class

Greatest hypocrite of them all

December 12, 2013by James Robb 1 Comment

Among the bourgeois politicians who lined up to eulogise Nelson Mandela over the past week, the competition for Awards in the categories Most Convenient Amnesia and Greatest Hypocrite Of All was fierce. […]

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Apartheid, class struggle, prisoners' rights, prisons, racism, solitary confinement, South Africa

Their Mandela and ours

December 7, 2013by James Robb 13 Comments

Their Mandela was a saintly figure, whom they first recognised in the early 1990s. His chief characteristic was the ability to forgive unspeakable crimes – their crimes. He was prepared to […]

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Apartheid, capitalist state, class struggle, democratic rights, freedom of speech, prisons, racism, solidarity, South Africa, Stalinism, working class

How the ruling class sees us

December 7, 2013by James Robb Leave a comment

The capitalist crisis runs especially deep in the United States, and has many ramifications. Sometimes a news story appears which demonstrates this better than a thousand graphs and statistics. In […]

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capitalist justice, capitalist state, class struggle, democratic rights, police, police brutality, prisoners' rights, sexual violence

“All Black” fatuousness and death in the forests

December 3, 2013by James Robb Leave a comment

My first and best lesson in industrial safety happened in 1978, a few weeks after I started work on the production line at the Ford car assembly plant in Wellington […]

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capitalist state, class collaboration, class struggle, job safety, solidarity, trade unions, union busting, unions, working class, working class history

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