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    Capitalism and the Chinese state

    How was capitalism restored in China? This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time. Vincent Kolo In March, China’s ornamental ‘parliament’ the National People’s C...

    Hong Kong national security law – Xi Jinping’s “nuclear option”

    The imposition of the new national security law in Hong Kong by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) is a massive blow to democratic and political rights Per-Ake Westerlund and Vincent Kolo The effect of the Chinese regime’s new law is similar to a milit...

    Hong Kong: Pandemic and repression fail to quell mass anger

    How can the struggle go forward? chinaworker.info The economic crisis under Covid-19 has arrived in full force. Hong Kong’s unemployment rate in the period from March to May was 5.9 percent, which is higher than the 5.5 percent during the global fi...

    Healthcare:Neoliberalism causes “social murder” on a global scale

    For a social and political program to fight the pandemic Katya Raetz (Sweden) and Marty Harrison (US) frontline health workers and ISA members The figures for those infected and deceased are outdated as soon as they are reported. More than 3.5 mill...

    China: Anniversary of June 4 Tiananmen massacre

    The Beijing massacre of 1989 crushed the democracy movement and cemented the Chinese regime’s embrace of capitalism Dikang, chinaworker.info June 4 marks the 31st anniversary of the gruesome massacre in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)...

    Hong Kong: People see this as the “final battle”

    Per Olsson of Offensiv (ISA's weekly newspaper in Sweden) asked Dikang of Socialist Action in Hong Kong about the recent dramatic events there. Per Olsson: The new national security law for Hong Kong seems to be a game changer; do you think it will ...

    Hong Kong: Power grab by Xi Jinping to smash democratic rights

    Beijing’s enactment of a new national security law for Hong Kong is the point of no return Dikang, chinaworker.info Events in Hong Kong have reached the point of no return. The Chinese dictatorship’s decision, from the platform of its pseudo-parlia...

    Socialists and the democratic struggle

    Socialists fight for all, even limited democratic advances, but explain the need to overthrow capitalism Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The following is a reprint from September 2010 of our reply to criticisms on social media from a sectar...

    China: Tiananmen Square movement of 1989 reverberates today

    In 1989, Chinese students and workers shook the world Joshua Koritz, Socialist Alternative (US) Here we are publishing an article from our US comrades of Socialist Alternative looking back on the mass democracy struggle in China in 1989.&n...

    Hong Kong’s democracy struggle – how to break the impasse?

    Carrie Lam’s government faces its biggest challenges since taking office Editorial from Socialist (社会主义者‏) magazine issue 51, Spring 2019 Increased authoritarian rule and a political crackdown in Hong Kong have not translated into stable g...

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    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 publ...

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