How the old imperialist powers still siphon off the wealth of the world
Part 6 of China in the age of American decrepitude For most of the twentieth century, the United States was the dominant world imperialist power. Its power was based on […]
Author Archives: James Robb
The falling rate of profit and the decline of US industry
Part 5 of China in the age of American decrepitude Towards the end of the twentieth century United States capitalism was increasingly beset by a crisis of profitability. At the […]
The Empire’s new clothes: US capitalism in its twilight years
Part 4 of China in the age of American decrepitude I spent the year 2004 as a ‘supply teacher,’ filling gaps in the high schools of Nottingham, England. It was […]
China’s great precursor: Trotsky on the rise of US imperialism
Part 3 of China in the age of American decrepitude The six years following the publication of Lenin’s Imperialism were a time of uninterrupted political upheaval in Europe, as the […]
Lenin on the imperialist stage of capitalism
Part 2 of China in the age of American decrepitude Empires and imperialism in a general sense have existed for at least two thousand years, since the time of the […]
China’s extraordinary industrial hegemony
China in the age of American decrepitude – Part 1 The breath-taking rapidity of China’s economic development over the last three or four decades races ahead of our ability to […]
Why the “Israel – Apartheid State” analogy is misleading and dangerous
Why then are some supporters of the Palestinian struggle so keen to use the ‘Apartheid State’ designation for Israel? Because the word Apartheid confers on Israel the status of pariah state – to be boycotted, sanctioned etc in the same way that the actual apartheid state was.
Chernobyl, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and truth in fiction
A review of Chernobyl, written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, a 2019 mini-series in five parts on HBO/Sky. In an early scene of Chernobyl, a young pregnant […]
Is Science a social construct? – a response to Richard Dawkins
With characteristic certainty and self-assurance, Professor Richard Dawkins recently tweeted his irritation with those who describe science as a social construct. “Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were […]
Police, professions and the Kaikohe ‘tooth fairy’ – a stark illustration of the decay of dental care
In April last year, police and Ministry of Health officials raided the home and workshop of Claire Wihongi-Matene, and charged her with claiming to be a health practitioner and six […]
