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Suspecting an antirevolutionary plot, Fidel Castro had Mr. Matos arrested and charged with treason.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2016

Accusing them of “taking the capitalist road,” Mao began the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to cleanse China of antirevolutionary influences.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Since then, the government has charged Banisadr with unspecified "antirevolutionary and anti-Islamic acts," thus clearing the way for a presidential election next month.

From Time Magazine Archive

The twins talk regularly on the phone, and in 1996 they finally got the local government in Hunan to take their father off the antirevolutionary blacklist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simon Cordoba, a boy of fifteen, has written a number of short stories considered to be antirevolutionary.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García