China’s Mass Revolt — Where Now?

Li Yong and Vincent Kolo are contributors to chinaworker.info. Most significant protests since the 1989 Democracy Movement. At the time of writing police are massing in Chinese cities in an effort to stamp out the recent protest wave. Protests continue at universities. The coming weekend could see new street protests in cities across the country. […]

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Xi Purges CCP’s Top Ranks

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. At the Communist Party’s 20th Congress dictator Xi Jinping made a clean sweep of the party-state’s top organs including the once powerful Standing Committee, but does the purge translate into greater strength or stability? It was never in doubt that at October’s five-yearly CCP Congress Xi Jinping would be […]

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Xi Jinping’s 20th Congress Caps Five Years of Political Disasters

Xi’s totalitarian rule is steering China towards revolutionary upheavals. The Chinese regime (CCP) is holding its 20th Congress in Beijing, at which Xi Jinping will be confirmed as dictator-for-life. An unlimited non-stop state propaganda campaign has been eulogizing the “many achievements” of Xi’s decade-long reign. But in reality, Xi’s tenure has been a succession of […]

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What’s Behind the Taiwan Strait Crisis?

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. The chain of events sparked by Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on 2–3 August signals a further escalation of the Second Cold War — the imperialist power struggle between the US and China. Predictably, Pelosi’s trip brought forth a furious reaction from Xi Jinping’s regime in the form […]

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Socialists and the US-China Cold War

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Rather than hitting the pause button on the imperialist US-China Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fast forwarded processes. “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades,” says Larry Fink, chairman of Blackrock, the world’s […]

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China’s Deepest Crisis in 30 Years

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. A succession of economic and political disasters is casting a dark cloud over Xi Jinping’s impending coronation as China’s dictator-for-life. Paralyzing “Zero COVID” lockdowns of major cities, collapsing GDP growth, record unemployment levels, and accelerating imperialist conflict in the shadow of the Ukraine war have plunged Chinese society […]

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How Deglobalization is Reshaping the World Economy

Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Article after article in the mainstream corporate media in recent weeks has stated that the war in Ukraine has accelerated a radical realignment in the world economy that is termed “deglobalization.” Martin Wolf, the chief economics editor of the Financial Times stated recently that […]

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