China

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...

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...

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...

3,000 mostly women workers’ strike at Shenzhen factory against wage cuts as a disguised form of layoffs Zhou Yi, chinaworker.info A week-long strike by an electronics factory's largely women workforce has captured attention across the country. The ...

Imperialism and the quest for global hegemony is behind the rare earth battle Li Yong and Moby, chinaworker.info Rare earth elements are considered China's most powerful trump card in the US-China imperialist trade war. They are essential in the ma...

The second of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The TikTok deal – if there will be a deal – is an important element in the wider conflict betw...

The first of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info A popular meme of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is doing the rounds. Trump tells Xi, “I hold the cards”,...

In early August, Jiangyou city in Sichuan Province was shaken by several days of mass protests over a school bullying incident, and this became the most prominent protest incident since White Paper protests in Nov-Dec 2022. The following video was fr...

Climate change and extreme weather compounded by bureaucratic cost-cutting and bungling Li Yong and Moby, ISA China Beijing has been hit by extreme rainfall again, even more severe than the devastating rainstorm in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region ...

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...