Toppling statues, censorship, and erasing history
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 […]
Category Archives: slavery
Cotton, slaves, war, and measles in colonial Fiji
Second of two articles on Land Labour and Epidemic Disease in the capitalist penetration of the Pacific First part here. Almost one hundred years after the Sydney Cove epidemic, a […]
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 […]
Charleston: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Comment on the Charleston murders by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The slave forts of Ghana – Notes from a visit to West Africa, Part 1
In December and January, I visited Ghana, Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso. The next few posts on this blog will be drawn from the notes I made on that visit. […]
The Destruction of Maori Communism
Part Three of “Once Were Communists,” a series of four articles by Terry Coggan It is a “guiding principle” of Marx’s historical materialism that “at a certain stage of development, […]
The naked class politics of Ebola
Just as a glass prism differentiates sunlight into its component colours, corresponding to the different wavelengths, the Ebola crisis ravaging three West African countries has produced three distinct responses, corresponding […]
This non-violent stuff’ll get you killed
A review of This non-violent stuff’ll get you killed – How Guns made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, by Charles E Cobb, Jr. Basic Books, New York 2014. ISBN 978-0-465-03310-2 […]
A salute to a courageous fighter, unbroken after 41 years of torture
This week’s Militant tells the story of Herman Wallace, who spent almost his entire life fighting a frame-up murder conviction from within the Louisiana prison system. Wallace was released from […]
A communist at large 