Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party It is an especially nervous Communist Party (CCP) regime that presides over the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October. The regime […]
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Government abandons its campaign against financial risk as private companies queue for a bailout The Chinese economic slowdown is intensifying amid the most serious crisis in US-China relations for four decades. But so far the trade war with America’s volatile president Donald Trump is not the main cause of China’s economic woes. China’s exports, including […]
Continue ReadingA new wave of repression is sweeping China’s universities. Security forces have detained more than a dozen student activists since the start of November. All the victims are connected to a solidarity campaign for factory workers in southern China, where a fight to establish an independent trade union began in June. Their solidarity campaign, which […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Trump’s tariffs raise international tensions and could derail global economic growth The trade war between Washington and Beijing looks set to escalate. The Trump administration is poised to impose tariffs – a punitive tax on imported goods – on a further US$200 billion of Chinese goods. This would […]
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At the end of August, the CCP (‘Communist’ Party) dictatorship launched a nationally coordinated crackdown against left youth activists and workers fighting for trade union rights in Shenzhen. Dozens have been arrested since police smashed down the door to the Huizhou apartment housing the Jasic Technology Workers’ Support Group, comprising dismissed workers and young left-wing […]
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Tony Wilsdon is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The last month has seen the unfolding of Trump’s promise to use tariffs as a weapon to make the U.S. “great again.” What will be the consequence of these policies? More importantly, will they help turn around the U.S. economy for working people? If […]
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Pasha is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). The past year can be described as one of big changes in China – showing a deepening crisis of the one-party dictatorship and China’s special form of state capitalism. There has been a historic change in the ‘Communist Party’ (CCP) regime’s structure with the […]
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Kevin Parslow is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The CWI school 2018, attended by nearly 400 comrades from over thirty countries in Barcelona, opened with a lively and confident discussion on the turmoil and upheavals facing global capitalism and prospects for the class struggle and socialism. This session was […]
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Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. G7 failure, penalty tariffs reflect capitalist world disorder Trump’s claims of success after his Singapore meeting with Kim Jong-un were in complete contrast to the downbeat mood amongst most of the other leaders who had been with him at the preceding G7 summit […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. The world has moved closer to a trade war on multiple fronts as Trump’s administration rolls out its aggressive ‘America First’ trade policies, taking aim at both close US allies and major rivals. On 1 June, the US implemented its long threatened tariffs of 25 percent on steel […]
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