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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The defeat of Bolsonaro at the polls and the election of Lula opens a new scenario for the class struggle in Brazil. The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and freedom party or PSOL) now has to decide whether to return to its original project of building an independent left alternative or to capitulate to the […]
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For almost 50 days, workers at 7 refineries across the country have led a strike that has shaken both the oil giants TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil, as well as the Macron government. The powerful strike movement, which was beginning to spill over into other sectors, carried the potential for a major struggle to obtain a pay-rise […]
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Stéphane Delcros is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). FIFA and its allies are responsible — they must get out of our sport With horrible working conditions, wages and living conditions for migrant workers; but also a complete denial of rights for women, for LGBTQIA+ people — […]
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Calvin Priest is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Forecasts of a midterm “red wave” for the Republican Party failed to land on Tuesday, and instead a divided outcome was driven by growing levels of polarization in U.S. politics. Republicans failed to win either house of Congress outright on election night, and a […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). First, the Queen dies. Then a ‘mini-budget’ pushes the British economy to the brink of collapse. Then, just after the Tories come within an inch of reinstalling Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, back comes Rishi Sunak to the front again. Four people have […]
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Vilma Álvarez and Fernando Lacerda are members of ISA in Chile. Understanding the result of the September 4 plebiscite is crucial for the entire working class in Chile and for evaluating the perspectives for struggle. On September 4, more than 15 million Chileans voted in the plebiscite on the approval of a new Constitution. However, […]
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Eric Jenkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The United Nations is currently debating whether to send a non-UN military force to “bring stability” to Haiti. Ariel Henry, prime minister of Haiti, has begged the UN to send a “specialized” task force to eliminate gangs. The United States and Mexico are the […]
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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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Capitalism Does Not Lead to Democracy The end of the neoliberal era was recently recognized by Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her speech on October 11, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, outlined a vision, what some are calling the “Freeland Doctrine,” stridently calling out China and Russia as geopolitical enemies of Western capitalism. […]
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