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’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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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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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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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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Walter Chambers is a member of International Socialist Alternative. The war in Ukraine has turned into a war of brutal attrition. Only workers’ solidarity can end it. The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on May 9: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short […]
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Li Yong is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Lockdown in Shanghai These interviews were conducted on April 11 when Shanghai had been in lockdown for almost two weeks. Since then the city of 28 million people has endured a further four weeks of full-scale lockdown with no end in sight. The current outbreak of the Omicron […]
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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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Adam N. Lee is a contributor to chinaworker.info. A video of a chained-up mother of eight children was posted on Douyin (China’s TikTok) in late January — within days it was viewed over 3 billion times drawing ten times more online traffic than the Beijing Winter Olympics. The short video posted on 28 January, and […]
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