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Rising anti-Asian hate crimes: What is the cause and how can workers fight it?

The only way to end racist and sexist violence against Asians and bring the change that is desperately needed is to build a multi-racial, multi-gendered, working-class movement connected to an international struggle against inequality, racism, sexism, sinophobia and any form of oppression experienced around the world.

The origins of Covid-19: lab-leak or capitalist ecological crisis?

The reality of capitalism and imperialist rivalry is already hampering any such investigation as the geopolitical interests of the US and China come into conflict.

Elections in Iran: “Death Judge” Raisi is new president as struggles loom on horizon

Friday’s presidential election in Iran saw a historic low turnout of under 50%. The victor, Ebrahim Raisi symbolises the desperate decline of the regime, which is showing its ugliest face in these times of crisis.

Hong Kong: Lessons of the 2019 mass struggle

These were the biggest demonstrations in Hong Kong history, with one in four people going onto the street

Hong Kong: Teachers’ trade union crumples in the face of government attack

Only mass organised resistance and solidarity can withstand the Chinese dictatorship’s attacks on trade unions and democratic rights.

China: Floods in Henan: Climate crisis x bureaucratic incompetence = disaster²

"Don't use natural disasters to cover up man-made disasters!" – Chinese netizens

China: The many crises of Xi Jinping

“All roads lead to 2022” noted Nikkei’s seasoned China watcher Katsuji Nakazawa, referring to the so-called Communist Party’s (CCP) twice-in-a-decade congress in October next year 

Chinese capitalism and the climate crisis

From Germany to Canada to China, flooding and wildfires have signaled the heralding of a new age of climate disaster

Peru: Pedro Castillo wins

No concessions to capital! Build mass mobilisation for radical change

1971: Kissinger’s secret visit to China

It’s 50 years ago since Henry Kissinger’s secret mission to China which led to a ground-breaking shift in US imperialism’s foreign policy and changed the course of history

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The War on Iran Is an Environmental Disaster

May 26, 2026 Tom Costello, Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland   The devastation caused by US i...

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