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 […]
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China, class collaboration, and the Indonesian killing fields
Third part of an investigation of the background to the 1965 massacre of up to a million Communist Party supporters in Indonesia, described but not explained in Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary […]
China 1927: precursor to the slaughter in Indonesia
Second part of a commentary on the catastrophic 1965 slaughter of the Indonesian workers and peasants described, but not explained, in Joshua Oppenheimer’s film ‘The Act of Killing.’ The histories […]
The fatal course of the Communist Party of Indonesia – Part 1
The documentary ‘The Act of Killing’ has opened a discussion of the 1965 slaughter of up to one million supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party. However, it leaves the political […]
The strength and weakness of ‘The Act of Killing’
The recent documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer, ‘The Act of Killing‘, provides a chillingly intimate portrait of some aging thugs who, nearly fifty years ago, took part in one of the […]
A communist at large 