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• Video: Tiananmen Square Massacre of 4 June 1989: The Chinese Communist Party Crushed the Dreams of A Citizens Movement for Democratisation
  6 June

  Tremble and Obey a documentary film by the Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It includes interviews with many of the key participants of the protest movement who were subsequently placed on China’s ‘most wanted’ list.

• Video: Coronavirus, War & Empire: Arundhati Roy & Jeremy Corbyn in Conversation with Tariq Ali | 6 June 2020
  13 June

  Full video recording of Arundhati Roy, Jeremy Corbyn and Tarq Ali in discussion on organised by Stop The War Coalition in the UK. They discuss Coronavirus, #BlackLivesMatter, China, India, Kashmir, Palestine

• Video: What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker | 5 mins 42 sec
  11 June

  In the 1950s, as part of a campaign to expose suspected Communists, thousands of individuals were aggressively investigated and questioned before government panels. Named after its most notorious practitioner, the phenomenon known as McCarthyism destroyed lives and careers. But how did this episode of political repression take off? Ellen Schrecker traces the history of McCarthyism. Lesson by Ellen Schrecker, animation by Patrick Smith.

• Video: Super Crisis Lies Ahead - Patrick Bond | 9 June 2020
  26 June

  A conversation with Patrick Bond, professor of political economy at the University of the Western Cape School of Government

• Video: Christopher Hitchens & Robert Service on the Life of Trotsky (3 parts)
  15 June

  Christopher Hitchens discussing the great Leon Trotsky on the BBC Radio 4 show "Great Lives", hosted by Matthew Parris. Historian Robert Service is also present to add to the discussion