How, why and when capitalism was restored in China
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 […]
Category Archives: frame-ups
Harry Holland, Leon Trotsky, and ‘Undesirable Immigrants’
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 […]
Arthur Thomas, the presumption of innocence, and the dangers of name suppression
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 […]
The Kavanaugh appointment – the crisis of bourgeois rule in the United States spreads to engulf another institution
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 […]
“Half-caste Maori” strikebreakers at Waihi and Huntly (First of two parts)
(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 […]
“You cannot make the uneducated see the anti-working-class attitude of the Labor Party by giving that party Socialist support”
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 […]
Carrying coals to Newcastle – “organised scabbery” against the New South Wales miners
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 […]
Frame-ups for rioting and sedition, and victimisations: the Battle of Broken Hill ends
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 […]
Arbitration or Mobilisation: the Battle of Broken Hill begins
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 […]
A city built on the bones of prisoners
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 […]
A communist at large 