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China’s environmental catastrophe

Posted on 10th October 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, Richard Smith (Pluto, 2020), £18.99 In 2017, Xi Jinping, China’s president, spoke of developing the country into an “ecological civilisation”. China has signed all the usual international environment and climate agreements and… Continue Reading →

Book reviews China, Ecology, Environment

Theorising China’s transition

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

A review of The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949, Ralf Ruckus (PM Press, 2021), £12 In The Communist Road to Capitalism German activist Ralf Ruckus takes a rather different approach… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised China

Class and class struggle in China today

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

In 2000 Zhang Zemin, then President of China and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, unveiled his great new political insight—the theory of the “three represents”.1 Although it’s easy to ridicule the pseudo-Marxist rhetoric and the exaggerated claims of… Continue Reading →

Article China, global working class

Striking back in the “world’s factory”

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (Haymarket, 2016),£15.99 China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance is an exciting and illuminating book focused on the labour struggles waged by… Continue Reading →

Book reviews China, Strikes, the working class

Emerging workers’ movements

Posted on 4th April 2016 by Camilla

A review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto Press, 2016), £15 Since the 1980s the institutionalisation of global neoliberalism has been pursued based on a range of ideological claims which have been advanced… Continue Reading →

Book reviews China, global working class, India, South Africa

Alex Callinicos on the situation in the Middle East today

Posted on 6th May 2015 by Camilla

Despite earlier Saudi claims that airstrikes have been stopped, attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen continue. What does Saudi Arabia fight for? Let’s start from the overall position of the Saudi royal family. They preside over the key conservative… Continue Reading →

Online only China, Middle East

China, world capitalism and workers’ resistance- videos

Posted on 23rd April 2015 by Camilla

Videos of some of the talks at our day school on China, 28 February 2015. Jane Hardy on China’s Political Economy and Adrian Budd on China in the World Sally Kincaid speaks about the Hong Kong umbrella protests in 2014… Continue Reading →

Conferences & day schools, Online only China

Imperialism and instability in East Asia today

Posted on 10th April 2013 by ISJ

During the last two to three years tension and conflict have been increasing in East Asia.1 In 2012 this tendency was evident in the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the area round the Korean peninsula. Let’s look… Continue Reading →

Analysis China, imperialism

China’s capitalism and the crisis

Posted on 9th January 2012 by ISJ

Major wars and economic crises force the pace of change within and between capitalist states, giving rise to new alignments and shifts in the geopolitics of world capitalism.1 At the time of writing this article, turmoil in financial markets triggered… Continue Reading →

Analysis China

China, Tibet and the left

Posted on 24th June 2008 by ISJ

The riots and protests in Tibet earlier this year were the most significant since China’s takeover in the 1950s. Together with the protests that have accompanied the Olympic torch relay around the world, they have shown that Tibetan nationalism remains… Continue Reading →

Analysis China, Tibet

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