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The death of the revolution in China and its re-birth – told in a brilliant new novel

February 28, 2018by James Robb Leave a comment

The generation of workers and peasants who made the Chinese revolution in the course of the bitter fight against Japanese occupation in the 1940s has largely passed away. So have […]

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Chinese revolution, class struggle, Cultural Revolution, democratic rights, freedom of speech, literature, Maoism, slander, Stalinism, working class history

Shanghai and the holocaust

June 12, 2016by James Robb 1 Comment

Jewish communities have existed in China for at least a thousand years, since they arrived as traders along the silk road. The European explorer Marco Polo, visiting Beijing in the […]

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anti-Semitism, China, Chinese revolution, fascism, immigration, imperialist war, Japan, literature, Maoism, Russian revolution, Second World War, Uncategorized, working class history

A visit to the museum of propaganda posters in Shanghai

June 8, 2016by James Robb 4 Comments

I have never been very keen on Maoist poster art – not even in the period of my life when I was attracted to Maoism – and I probably would […]

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art, China, Chinese revolution, class struggle, Maoism, revolution, Stalinism, working class history

China, class collaboration, and the Indonesian killing fields

November 17, 2013by James Robb 1 Comment

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 […]

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China, class collaboration, communism, Indonesia, Maoism, movies, revolution, Stalinism, working class history

China 1927: precursor to the slaughter in Indonesia

November 8, 2013by James Robb 3 Comments

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 […]

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capitalist state, class collaboration, class struggle, communism, Indonesia, Maoism, revolution, Stalinism, working class history

The strength and weakness of ‘The Act of Killing’

October 26, 2013by James Robb 6 Comments

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 […]

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capitalist state, class collaboration, communism, Indonesia, Maoism, movies, revolution, Stalinism, working class history

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