China

Proletarian China: A century of Chinese labour

Proletarian China: A century of working-class struggle

Chris Slee — From the struggles of workers on the Beijing-Hankou railway in the 1920s to that of the Jasic factory workers in 2017-18, ‘Proletarian China’ deals with a range of working-class battles over pay, conditions and union rights.
Supporters of incumbent Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi celebrate in Cairo after his most recent landslide electoral victory, 18 December 2023.

Egypt: Sisi’s weakness makes him more brutal

Robert Springborg on how the Egyptian dictator secures his violent rule.
Kim with NK troops

Why is North Korea helping Russia’s war on Ukraine?

Youngsu Won — North Korea is an enigma in many senses of the word, but leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to send troops to fight in Russia’s war on Ukraine shocked many in South Korea and internationally.
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro meets with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing in September 2023

Some clarity on imperialism and anti-imperialism today — A response to Steve Ellner

Greg Godels argues that the road to defeating imperial aggression — US or any other — is to win the working class to the fight with a class-oriented program that attacks the roots of imperialism: capitalism.
Trump Vance rally

US socialists: ‘Trump’s election shows the far right has been better at capitalising on these times of crisis than the left’

Cyn Huang and Daniil Sapunkov discuss the US presidential election result and what it likely impacts on politics at home and abroad.
Resisting authoritarian populism

Resisting authoritarian populism: Trump’s victory and the tasks of the Left

Ashley Smith — The Left, social movements, and unions cannot rely on the Democrats, who are responsible for Trump’s victory. Rather, it needs to build an independent resistance committed to fighting for our own demands.
US empire cracking

Age of ‘Empire’ or age of imperialism? A reply to Claudio Katz

Michael Pröbsting — Contrary to Claudio Katz’s claims that world capitalism is domination of a single US-led “Empire”, it continues to be characterised by inter-imperialist rivalry.
Imperial chessboard

Building international solidarity against imperial rivalry: An interview with Ashley Smith about the rise of capitalist China

Ashley Smith explores the practical implications of the rise of China for socialists and activists fighting for a better and more just world today.
Kicking over the table graphic

Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in times of ‘reactionary acceleration’

Jaime Pastor — An increasingly authoritarian neoliberalism is spreading, not only in the South but increasingly in the North, with the threat of a “reactionary acceleration”.
Anti-imperialism protest in the Philippines

The logic of imperialism’s ‘Maritime Great Game’ in the Southeast Asian Sea

Rasti Delizo — A fresh inter-imperialist conflict is mounting in the form of a ‘Maritime Great Game’, and it is swiftly accelerating across the Southeast Asian Sea.
Donald Trump on phone

The Trump effect

Boris Kagarlitsky — The election results show that the mere threat of a reactionary turn was not enough. Liberals are now doomed to reap the fruits of their catastrophic policies, the dire consequences of which will affect not only the United States but the entire world.
Trump US flag

Boris Kagarlitsky on the US elections, Trump, peace talks and prospects for world war

From a Russian penal colony, Boris Kagarlitsky responses to questions about the US elections, its potential impacts on the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and prospects for a new world war.

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