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There’s a storm brewing

October 23, 2022by James Robb 2 Comments

What the local elections foretell I am one of the large majority who did not vote in the recent mayoral and local elections in New Zealand – not because I […]

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capitalist economy, censorship, class struggle, energy industry, environment, farming, freedom of speech, health care, housing, liberal paternalism, Maori struggle, unions, women's equality, working class

Name and prosecute the cops who killed Shargin Stephens!

July 5, 2022by James Robb Leave a comment

It is now six years since the police tormented Rotorua man Shargin Stephens day and night for more than a month with incessant and utterly unjustified ‘bail checks,’ and then, […]

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capitalist justice, censorship, democratic rights, police, working class

Two wars over Ukraine

March 13, 2022by James Robb 5 Comments

Pacifists and liberals are fond of repeating the old adage that ‘the first casualty of war is the truth.’ In fact, the exact contrary is far closer to the truth: […]

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Bolshevik party, censorship, imperialist war, inter-imperialist rivalries, NATO, Russia, self-determination, Stalinism, Ukraine

A witch-hunt devastates the Auckland art world

November 16, 2020by James Robb 13 Comments

If the artists responsible for the Mercy Pictures exhibition “People of Colour” were setting out to shock and provoke, they certainly succeeded. The show, which recently closed in Auckland, was […]

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art, censorship, fascism, freedom of speech, slander, witch-hunts

Toppling statues, censorship, and erasing history

June 13, 2020by James Robb 1 Comment

The first brass head has toppled in New Zealand. On 12 June the Hamilton City Council removed a statue of… Hamilton! British naval Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, veteran of […]

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censorship, class struggle, fiction, Maori struggle, New Zealand history, North America, racism, slavery, United States

Arthur Thomas, the presumption of innocence, and the dangers of name suppression

January 29, 2020by James Robb 4 Comments

If anyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence today, it is Arthur Allan Thomas. In 1971, and again at a re-trial in 1973, Thomas, a Waikato dairy farmer, was […]

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capitalist justice, censorship, democratic rights, frame-ups, police, slander, violence against women, working class

Defend the right of women to meet and organise politically!

October 20, 2019by James Robb 2 Comments

Massey University capitulates to the self-appointed censors – and another democratic institution slides towards the abyss In an extraordinary display of political cowardice, Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand, has […]

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censorship, democratic rights, freedom of speech, identity politics, meritocracy, race-baiting, slander, women's equality, working class

If this is how you propose to defend free speech, then freedom of speech is in grave danger

September 29, 2019by James Robb 12 Comments

An open letter to Jan Thomas, Vice-chancellor of Massey University. Massey University in Wellington is the venue for an event on 13 November called Feminism 2020, organised by Speak Up […]

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censorship, democratic rights, education, freedom of speech, identity politics, violence against women, women's equality

The Holodomor in Ukraine and the obfuscations of “Mr Jones”

July 30, 2019by James Robb 4 Comments

Few countries in the world suffered more than Ukraine in the twentieth century. One of the nations of the Soviet Union favoured with fertile soils and bountiful agriculture, geography made […]

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censorship, farming, genocide, national self-determination, petty-bourgeoisie, Russian revolution, social disasters, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Ukraine

Land, labour, and epidemic diseases – two articles on capitalist penetration of the Pacific

July 14, 2019by James Robb 2 Comments

When the deadly epidemic of influenza swept the world in the months following the end of the Great War of 1914-18, the toll it took in the Pacific Islands was […]

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