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The Tricontinental

A study of the German Democratic Republic's agricultural transformation, tracing land reform, cooperative farming and large-scale socialist production as an alternative to capitalist agribusiness and global hunger.

Orinoco Tribune

The US chip blockade that once helped cripple the Soviet computer industry is being turned on China, but China's deep integration in world markets and state planning of AI and power infrastructure limit its effect.

Friends of Socialist China

At China Daily's 'Vision China' event in London on September 17, MEP Ondřej Dostál argued the West must see China as it actually is, citing an enormous gap between the real China and Western perceptions.

Friends of Socialist China

A conference panel argues that the new cold war against China risks becoming a hot war, examining AUKUS, critical minerals, and the Global South's sovereignty struggles.

Socialista Champagne

Argues that EU claims of a Russian threat are propaganda masking Western Europe's own imperial ambitions, tracing a history of invasions of Russia and tying EU migration and housing crises to Golden Visa speculation and Israeli capital.

Amy Yang

Imagining how Chinese communist martyrs would judge today's China, arguing the revolution remains unfinished and that China's development and anti-imperialist role should be defended by socialists worldwide.

Friends of Socialist China

An editorial marking the 77th anniversary of the People's Republic of China credits socialist construction for mass literacy, the elimination of extreme poverty for 800 million people, and global solidarity with Iran, Cuba and Africa.

Voice of the Proletariat

A National Day statement marking 77 years of the People's Republic of China, crediting Communist Party rule with rising life expectancy, the eradication of rural poverty, and the consolidation of sovereignty over Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Friends of Socialist China

The life of George Hatem, a Lebanese-American doctor who joined the Chinese revolution as Ma Haide, became a citizen of the People's Republic and helped build its public health system.

Neutrality Studies

Ambassador Jack Matlock argues Western leaders misread the Cold War's end, tracing how NATO expansion, rejected Ukrainian neutrality and dominance thinking squandered the post-Cold War peace.

Orinoco Tribune

Trump announced a deal with Denmark and Greenland granting the US permanent security control, expanded basing rights, and a ban on Russian and Chinese investment in the strategic Arctic territory.

Journal of International Solidarity

Moscow's Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University trained post-colonial professionals from the Global South, and Russia's 2023 restoration of Lumumba's name signals a foreign policy reoriented toward Africa.

Red Anti-Imperialist Collective

A Marxist analysis of the US Reconstruction Finance Corporation argues that public planning saved capitalism only to be liquidated for private profit, and proposes an Australian Sovereign Development Fund modelled on Chinese state-directed co-investment.

Friends of Socialist China

Keith Bennett and Radhika Desai re-examine the late-1970s wars between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, challenging Western narratives and probing the relationship between class and nation in socialist internationalism.

Orinoco Tribune

Keith Bennett, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, told a webinar marking 50 years since Mao Zedong's death that no single person has made a greater contribution to humanity's liberation, crediting Mao with the peasant-led people's war breakthrough.

Friends of Socialist China

Keith Bennett, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, told a webinar marking 50 years since Mao Zedong's death that no single person has made a greater contribution to humanity's liberation, crediting Mao with the breakthrough that revolution could be won in a semi-colonial country.

Working Class History

A fireside chat tracing the history of the weekend from ancient Mesopotamia and medieval Europe to the present, showing how workers organised and fought for time off against employer and government efforts to erode it.

The Tricontinental

Chinese modernisation, a socialist process under Communist Party leadership per Xi Jinping, advanced from 1949-1978 foundations through 1978-2013 reform and opening up to the post-2013 era of common prosperity and high-quality development.

Monthly Review

A revised analysis of the Communist Manifesto's relevance today, arguing that capitalism's crises, stagnation, and ecological threats make Marx and Engels' warnings more urgent than ever.

Voice of the Proletariat

Mao Zedong explains the necessity of the people's democratic dictatorship, arguing that China must lean to the socialist side and exercise democracy for the people while suppressing reactionaries.

Orinoco Tribune

Israel has long supplied arms, training, and intelligence to Latin American dictatorships, from Guatemala's genocidal regimes to Pinochet's Chile, often as a proxy for the US.

Neutrality Studies

A NATO colonel and a historian examine the Yugoslav wars, arguing that NATO's intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo was driven by expansionist aims rather than humanitarian motives, and served as a rehearsal for confrontation with Russia.

Orinoco Tribune

A study by Georgiy Kasianov reveals Ukraine's punitive memory laws, which criminalize Communist symbols while rehabilitating Nazi collaborators, intensifying repression and nationalist identity enforcement amid the conflict with Russia.