Thursday, 25 April , 2024

Chinese Revolution

Marxism, nation and nationalism, Western and Russian Left

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos This is the fourth of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era, the Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the three preceding...

The United States and White Supremacy at War with China

By Franklin Frederick In 1904, Jack London, the most celebrated American writer of the time, was sent as a reporter to cover the war between...

Film review: 1921 – A vivid panorama of revolution

Review written by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Keith Bennett The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China has been the...

The Secret of China’s Success: Neighborhood Committees

By Adnan Akfırat 04/10/2020 While the US and Europe are destroyed by the Covid-19 outbreak, the question ”How did China stop the outbreak and turned back...

The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People

The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’) By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...

The Russian Revolution: A Verso Reading List

One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution we look back at the events that turned the world upside down and how they resonate...

Encircling China and Using India against it

Doklam then and now: from British to Chinese interests, follow the money A stalemate in the Himalayas, a three-way territorial struggle, fears of foreign hegemony...

Trump, Russia and China – a reverse of the Nixon game?

Could it be that, almost 45 years after Nixon’s breakthrough with China, the United States’ 45th president will be taking Kissinger’s advice? President Obama tried to make a “pivot” to Asia the capstone of his foreign policy. Will Donald Trump make a “pivot” toward Moscow, and away from Beijing, a capstone of his?