Category: Maoism
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Special journal issue on Global Maoisms
I am very excited to announce that the special issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal that I edited on Global Maoisms has been published. You can find the issue here. My introduction is free to download, as well as two other articles – one on Maoism in Hong Kong and one on Maoism in Greece.
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Ted Hill, the Khmer Rouge and Australian Maoism, 1977-1980
This piece was originally posted at my Patreon here. For more content, please subscribe. Throughout the nearly four years of its existence, the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia (which called itself Democratic Kampuchea) invited a number of Western sympathisers to observe the regime and (hopefully) provide eyewitness accounts back in the West. Infamously, this ended…
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Maoists and Eysenck at LSE, May 1973: Disruptive protest and the prelude to ‘no platform’
On 8 May, 1973, the controversial psychologist Hans Eysenck attempted to deliver a lecture at the London School of Economics, but faced heavy protests from students. A group of Maoists stormed the stage and assaulted Eysenck. Alongside a sit-in the following month to protest a lecture by US academic Samuel Huntington at the University of…
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Peking Review and global anti-imperialist networks in the 1960s
This is a longer version of a conference I recently presented at the Amidst Empires conference at Flinders University last month. It is very much a work in progress, so feedback most welcome! There has been a significant amount of scholarship about the dissemination and influence of Maoist ideology (often referred to as Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong…
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Sydney, London, Moscow, Beijing: Schisms in the international communist movement, 1947-61
The following forms part of a forthcoming book chapter on the relationship between the Communist Parties in Britain, Australia and South Africa. It builds on previous posts (here and here) and will also be worked into the manuscript that I am currently developing from my postdoctoral research. As per usual, any feedback is most welcome!…
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‘By whatever means necessary’: The origins of the ‘no platform’ policy
Recently the concept of ‘no platform’ was in the news again when there were attempts to cancel a talk by Germaine Greer at Cardiff University. While there is no doubt that the use of ‘no platform’ has expanded since its first use in the 1970s, the term is bandied about in the media with little…
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