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North Korea and China: What drives their “unbreakable friendship”? 

Xi Jinping’s June visit to Pyongyang revealed a CCP regime on the backfoot, needing to shore up China’s influence in its geopolitical “backyard” Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info North Korea’s Kim Jong-un used Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visit...

China’s Crisis Deepens: 48 Million Unemployed

July 21, 2026. Vincent Kolo, ISA International Political Committee Top Chinese economist’s speech reveals growing alarm as economic crisis deepens China’s real unemployment rate is 10.2% according to a top Chinese economist. That’s double ...

The Xi-Trump summit and what it says about the US-China imperialist conflict

Per-Åke Westerlund and Vincent Kolo, ISA International Political Committee On 14-15 May, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media described it, hig...

There is nothing temporary about China’s economic crisis

Record youth unemployment, worsening property crash and consumption slump Li Yong, chinaworker.info Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship and the bourgeois media have repeatedly claimed that ‘a recovery is on the way’, but...

Can ‘future industries’ lead China’s economy out of crisis?  

Zhu Gong, chinaworker.info 2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the ‘Two Sessions’ (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, the 15th Five-Year Plan was formally ‘passed’. The CCP (so-c...

‘Coup in China’ – What’s behind the take down of general Zhang Youxia?

The CCP-state and the world’s biggest army, the PLA, face their most serious crisis for decades Dikang, ISA China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Since 18 January the CCP’s internal power struggle has entered a critical phase. China’s authoritarian c...

China’s dictatorship, state and private capital

The following is a speech given by ISA member Zhou Yi to a meeting of Chinese Marxists in May 2025 ISA and chinaworker.info describe China and the system led by the so-called Communist Party (CCP) regime as ‘authorit...

“Selling out the country?” US and China in neo-colonial tug-of-war over Panama Canal

Deal to sell port contracts to BlackRock of US is being blocked by Beijing Dikang and Li Yong, chinaworker.info Donald Trump declared his designs on the Panama Canal on day one of his return to power. “We didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama...

Understanding China’s authoritarian state capitalism

This is an edited version of a speech given by Peter Chan of chinaworker.info to the ISA's Virtual Marxist University in July 2020, which is now published for the first time. Marxists have continuously discussed and debated what kind of state the CC...

China’s stimulus dilemma

The CCP's much-hyped stimulus policies of late 2024 are a mere shadow of the mega-package launched in 2008 Dikang, chinaworker.info In late September, China’s central bank cut benchmark interest rates and signalled a major new series of econom...

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Trump’s Surrender – Will the Iran War Deal Hold?

June 15, 2026 Danny Byrne, ISA International Political Committee On 6 March, after only a week of war, Trump wrote that “there will be no dea...

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