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November 16, 2024

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U.S. and China: Tariff hikes highlight inter-imperialist tensions

By ERNIE GOTTA President Biden has been using his final year in office to expand on the Trump administration’s tariffs on China. New tariffs were announced in May, but the...

Competing imperialist powers exploit Latin America

By JOSE MONTEROJO The inter-imperialist rivalry in which the dominant imperialist powers (primarily the United...

Freedom for “Long Hair” and all Hong Kong Political Prisoners!

On May 30, a panel of three judges at the West Kowloon Judicial Court...

Iran Is Ready to Deepen Economic Ties with China and Russia

By Gabriel Huland The arrest and killing of Jhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman,...

Iran Is Ready to Deepen Economic Ties with China and Russia

By Gabriel Huland The arrest and killing of Jhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, for not wearing the hijab "properly" set off a wave...

Twentieth Communist Party Congress of China brings no surprises and keeps Xi Jinping in power

The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) is expected to re-elect Xi Jinping for another term as general secretary, but now...

Projetamento Economics: a Stalinist Farse

A rehashed "theory" emerged in Stalinism to explain the economic growth of China in recent decades and, at the same time, to justify what...

The Awakening of the Chinese Proletariat?

On the eve of the Communist Party Congress, on the morning of October 13, Peng Zaizhou, whose real name is Peng Lifa, an IT...

Chinese dictatorship backs down on COVID-19 policy

“In responding to the sudden outbreak of Covid-19, we put the people and their lives above all else, worked to prevent both imported cases...

Protesters defy the government in a turbulent week for China

Protests against forced confinement and the government spread across China after a fire killed 10 people in Urumqi. By Marcos Margarido The fire started on the...

Workers and popular protests challenge government in China

On the night of Tuesday, November 22, thousands of workers faced violent internal security inside the industrial complex of the Taiwanese company FoxConn in...

China: A capitalist regime, “actually existing socialism” or an “intermediate” social regime?

Capitalism's handling of the pandemic has caused a sanitary, social and human catastrophe for the majority of the world's population. In this catastrophe, in...

Evergrande's Likely Collapse Exposes Chinese Capitalism

The Evergrande Group is on the brink of bankruptcy. This news travels the world and shakes stock exchanges. No wonder Evergrande, headquartered in Shenzhen,...

Hong Kong’s Democratic Opposition Members Unfairly Found Guilty

Ten pan-democratic opposition members have been convicted of organizing and / or participating in mass protests in 2019, ranging from 8 to 18 months...

No Bail but Immediate and Lengthy Detention for HKCTU Chair

We republish Hong Kong Central of Trade Union (HKCTU) call for international solidarity with 47 democratic rights activists arrested on January 6, 2021 on...

Class Struggle Doesn’t Stop Under the Pandemic

The corona virus pandemic, with the measures of social isolation, is forcing many mobilization processes to take a break in their forms of mobilization...

Coronavirus and the Chinese Economy

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the Chinese economy hard, with setbacks in key indicators not seen for decades. What will happen in the coming...

Coronavirus: Nature Fights Back

As I write, the new deadly coronavirus 2019-nCoV, related to SARS and MERS, and apparently originating in live animal markets in Wuhan, China, is...