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How, why and when capitalism was restored in China

November 28, 2021by James Robb 3 Comments

Part 8 of China in the age of American decrepitude The overthrow of capitalism in China in the early 1950s took place under very unfavourable circumstances. From nearby Korea, US […]

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Bonapartism, China, Chinese revolution, communism, Cultural Revolution, education, frame-ups, Indonesia, Maoism, religion, Soviet Union, Stalinism, witch-hunts, working class

Harry Holland, Leon Trotsky, and ‘Undesirable Immigrants’

August 9, 2020by James Robb Leave a comment

The New Zealand Labour Party formed in 1916 encompassed a wide range of tendencies in the labour movement, from revolutionaries to obdurate class-collaborationists. But initially at least, it was led […]

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class collaboration, class struggle, democratic rights, frame-ups, Harry Holland, Labour Party, parliamentarism, Russian revolution, Soviet Union, Stalinism

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

The Kavanaugh appointment – the crisis of bourgeois rule in the United States spreads to engulf another institution

October 11, 2018by James Robb 1 Comment

Two years ago, Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, and then the Presidency of the United States, against all expectations.  It was an unmistakable sign of the crisis gripping the […]

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abortion, capitalist justice, frame-ups, revolution, sexual violence, slavery, United States, women's equality

“Half-caste Maori” strikebreakers at Waihi and Huntly (First of two parts)

September 15, 2018by James Robb 1 Comment

(Note: In quoting historic documents, I have not attempted to modernise their Anglicised spelling and usage of Māori words, offensive as some of these things may seem today. The English […]

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class struggle, environment, frame-ups, Harry Holland, job safety, Maori struggle, New Zealand history, police, strikes, union busting, unions, working class history

“You cannot make the uneducated see the anti-working-class attitude of the Labor Party by giving that party Socialist support”

June 20, 2018by James Robb Leave a comment

Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 14 Now that the Labor Party held the government benches in both the State of New South […]

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Australia history, class struggle, frame-ups, Harry Holland, Labour Party, racism, strikes, union busting, working class history

Carrying coals to Newcastle – “organised scabbery” against the New South Wales miners

May 31, 2018by James Robb Leave a comment

Twelfth part of Harry Holland the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The battle of Broken Hill had ended with the Australian capitalist class unable to deliver the […]

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Australia history, capitalist justice, class struggle, frame-ups, Harry Holland, strikes, union busting, working class history

Frame-ups for rioting and sedition, and victimisations: the Battle of Broken Hill ends

May 24, 2018by James Robb 2 Comments

Eleventh part of Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The situation at Broken Hill had come close to disaster in early January. However, bloodshed […]

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Australia history, capitalist justice, class struggle, frame-ups, freedom of speech, Harry Holland, solidarity, unions, working class history

Arbitration or Mobilisation: the Battle of Broken Hill begins

May 15, 2018by James Robb 2 Comments

Tenth part of Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The ore miners at the Barrier were central to the Australian economy and thus wielded […]

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Australia history, class collaboration, class struggle, frame-ups, Harry Holland, police, slander, solidarity, unions, working class history

A city built on the bones of prisoners

August 25, 2016by James Robb 6 Comments

Komsomolsk-na-Amur is an industrial city in the Russian Far East.  Founded in 1932, it was from 1937 unmarked on maps and off limits to foreigners – not just in Soviet […]

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