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A Chinese startup launched an efficient artificial intelligence model that has sent tech giants’ stocks tumbling. What does this mean from a socialist perspective? By Marcel Wando DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, recently launched an open source AI model that rivals the developments of U.S. technology giants and uses significantly fewer resources. This innovation […]

By Lee On January 1, 2025, a student at the Vocational Technical School in Pucheng was found dead on the ground outside of his dormitory window. According to the report of the CCP investigation team, at about 10 pm on January 1, 2025, a student with the surname Dang had difficulty falling asleep in his […]

By: Fábio Bosco (11/19/2024) On November 19, Hong Kong judicial authorities announced the sentences against 45 opposition figures for organizing election primaries to unify the so-called “pan-democratic opposition” in July 2020, which was attended by 610,000 voters. The sentences range from 4 to 10 years in prison. Jurist Benny Tai, an associate professor at the […]

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 implementation was delayed until September. The steepest of the tariffs included a 100% tax rate on electric vehicles. Other imposed tax hikes on Chinese companies […]

By JOSE MONTEROJO The inter-imperialist rivalry in which the dominant imperialist powers (primarily the United States and China) attempt to reestablish social/political control and profitable capital accumulation is re-shaping Latin America’s political, social, and economic realities. The drive to reestablish profitability across the world is deepening Latin America’s dependency on imperialist powers, creating social conditions […]

On May 30, a panel of three judges at the West Kowloon Judicial Court in the city of Hong Kong convicted 14 activists of conspiracy and subversion under the National Security Law imposed by the Chinese regime on the territory of Hong Kong in June, 2020 (1). By Fabio Bosco Another 31 activists will be […]

By: Joana Salay Recently, we saw on social media a video of the future PSOL candidate for mayor of São Paulo, Guilherme Boulos. In it, he is at the Huawei headquarters in Shanghai presenting the advantages of the Chinese company’s technology for the management of large cities like São Paulo [1]. We can criticize the […]

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 of women-led protests challenging the Iranian regime in unprecedented ways. Although it is too early to assess how the protests will affect the country’s political institutions, a preliminary analysis indicates […]

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 under the title of chairman, an honour granted only to Mao Zedong. This had been planned since the last congress held five years ago. By Marcos Margarido The week-long Twentieth Party […]

A rehashed “theory” emerged in Stalinism to explain the economic growth of China in recent decades and, at the same time, to justify what they call Chinese socialism. One of its greatest propagandists is the Communist Party of Brazil, through Elias Jabbour, a member of its Central Committee. By: Marcos Margarido It is the Projetamento […]

On the eve of the Communist Party Congress, on the morning of October 13, Peng Zaizhou, whose real name is Peng Lifa, an IT worker, laid out two banners with demands on Sitong Bridge in Beijing, which read: “We want food, not PCR tests! We want freedom, not lockdowns! We want reform, not a cultural […]

“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 and domestic resurgences, and tenaciously pursued a dynamic zero-Covid policy. In launching an all-out people’s war to stop the spread of the virus, we have protected the people’s health and safety […]

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 15th floor of a building in the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China’s far west. The region is the scene of independence struggles by the Uighurs, […]

On the night of Tuesday, November 22, thousands of workers faced violent internal security inside the industrial complex of the Taiwanese company FoxConn in the city of Zhenzhou in the interior of mainland China. Several videos testify of the confrontation that lasted until the early hours of the morning. By: Fabio Bosco The protesters were […]

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 parallel to the millions of dead, the list of billionaires stands tall. The entire capitalist world economic organism has reacted according to the supreme norm of capital, the law of accumulation. […]

The Evergrande Group is on the brink of bankruptcy. This news travels the world and shakes stock exchanges. No wonder Evergrande, headquartered in Shenzhen, southern China, owns the second-largest real estate company in the country, as well as other businesses, such as an electric vehicle factory and a football team. With around 200,000 direct employees, […]