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  1. Indeed, it is also experiencing a massive upsurge in its tourist industry. Korea was a mess made by Truman and compounded by McCarthy. It's also interesting to look at Japan and see the often brutal repression of the trade union movement there by US backed governments in the 60s and 70s (seriously there are some YouTube videos of strikes in Japan in the 70's that make orgreave look like a vicars tea party) And also in the Philippines - where a civil war with communist Guerillas rages to this day. Vietnam can still call itself a socialist republic though, despite the westernisation whereas NK despite being called communist by the media is a hereditary autocracy that removed all mention of socialism from its constitution in the late 60's.
  2. And then there is this ice-cold slice of 80's post-punk awesomeness.
  3. McCarthy - Charles Windsor love this, and the d.i.y video some amazing YouTuber has created to accompany it!
  4. Also, if they had stayed out of the Chinese civil war instead of backing the Kuomintang and Chang Kai Shek and had allowed china to take a seat in the UN Security Council they may never have been forced to fight the PLA as well. China would in all likelihood have stayed out of the war (it was a risk that Mao took extremely reluctantly and only when he thought every other possibility had been exhausted) and the landings at Inchon and subsequent northern thrust by the US marines would have forced the North Koreans to retreat to the Yalu only without Chinese support; almost certainly leading to their surrender or annihilation by Allied forces. Thus avoiding another two years of war (including numerous documented atrocities on both sides)
  5. I'm only around 80 pages in so it's too soon to make a diagnosis just yet. It's very descriptive - not unusual in novels of the period - but I don't mind that too much. So in that sense I guess it is pretty conventional when compared to say; Flaubert or Dostoevsky or Joyce (a more direct comparison) but once you are past the contents page it's pretty obvious it's more than just a novel. And despite being written over a hundred years ago it is extremely relatable; I worked on a factory for 12 years; I recognise those people! Reading the obscurer (sun) knowing little of politics but always having an inane opinion - usually one sponsored by murdoch! I've literally had those conversations and then given up in disgust so it's pretty cleverly written from that perspective although the levels of satire are deliberately overplayed I feel.
  6. Currently reading The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
  7. Haha, I'm aware of it, but since I know next to zero about the round ball code i have no frame of reference for what it's all about!
  8. Manic Street Preachers - New Art Riot. Title track from their debut EP. I've been putting together a manic's top 50 (it's a thing with my brother) and although this is somewhere in the middle it's got a nagging riff that I can't get out of my head. It also highlights how brilliant Richeys lyrics were even this early in their career - 'hospital closures kill/more than car bombs ever will'
  9. Marley was a big supporter of the punk movement and in particular the clash - he even had a poster of them on his studio wall. I reckon he would have approved of this version. Bad brains also cite strummer and the clash as being massive influences on them forming a band and writing about social issues. I'm not sure if that counteracts the cultural appropriation tag or not but if bob didn't mind then neither do I!
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