Peter Robb (born 1946) is an Australian author, who has also written under the pen names B. Selkie and Ross Edwards.
[1] As a young man he was involved in a small Trotskyist organisation named the Communist League, which was sympathetic to the Fourth International, between 1972 and 1976.
[2] Robb helped produced its newspaper, Militant, and was also key in the departure of a section of the Communist League's leadership, through absorption by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1976.
[7][clarification needed] In December 1999, he published Pig's Blood and Other Fluids, a collection of three crime fiction novellas.
Conti branded Robb "a rude thief, a colonial predator, a privateer sure of his own impunity" who "just copied [my book] because it is written in a language that no one in the rich countries understands.