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Carlos Martinez
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with French President Emmanu
Features / 7 March 2025
7 March 2025
CARLOS MARTINEZ condemns Europe’s failure to develop genuine autonomy from US hegemony, as leaders like Starmer and Macron cling to a declining imperial order rather than building good relations with the emerging powers
Taklimakan desert workers
Features / 28 December 2024
28 December 2024
Chinese socialist planning and action over decades have created the world’s greatest reforestation programme, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ, and now its lessons in fighting desertification and climate change are taking root worldwide
17 - PRC founding celebrations 2019
Features / 7 September 2024
7 September 2024
Despite relentless hostility, the People’s Republic of China has lifted millions out of poverty, and become a global leader in innovation and climate action, while pursuing peaceful development in a multipolar world, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the return cap
Features / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Brussels is following the US’s lead in slapping punitive duties on China’s electric vehicles, sabotaging Europe’s climate goals and economic interests to appease Biden’s anti-Beijing crusade, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the return cap
Features / 28 June 2024
28 June 2024
Brussels is following the US’s lead in slapping punitive duties on China’s electric vehicles, sabotaging Europe’s climate goals and economic interests to appease Biden’s anti-Beijing crusade, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
IPAC
Features / 29 March 2024
29 March 2024
Cyberattack allegations against China are nothing but another example of new cold war hysteria, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Lenin
Features / 20 January 2024
20 January 2024
CARLOS MARTINEZ examines the thought of the great revolutionary leader and the globalisation of Marxism
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and US President Joe Biden
Features / 13 June 2023
13 June 2023
In a painful display of sycophancy, the PM committed Britain to the US’s twisted worldview, sacrificing our economy, diplomatic autonomy, and potentially our lives in a war against the East, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
addis
Features / 27 May 2023
27 May 2023
The rich nations of the group of seven are intent on maintaining their collective interest as world powers at the expense of the global South. Pretending otherwise doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
China is building a truly ecological civilisation
Features / 18 November 2022
18 November 2022
While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and solar energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ
China coronavirus
Features / 19 January 2022
19 January 2022
Despite the effectiveness of China’s tactics in fighting Covid-19, Western outlets still find ways to decry it as ‘authoritarian’ and ‘unsustainable’ — instead they should be saluting its remarkable success, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Sinopharm
Adelante! / 4 December 2021
4 December 2021
by Carlos Martinez
China Gingko trees
Features / 4 November 2021
4 November 2021
The West has followed a Cold War agenda of demonising the world’s most populous country, when in fact it is China that emits less per-person than the US and many of its other critics, while leading the way in renewable energy, reforestation and electric vehicles, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
US war ships in the Bay of Bengal
Features / 19 October 2021
19 October 2021
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports from a webinar exploring the ‘new cold war’ on China and its basis in racism, emotional narratives and the military-industrial complex
‘The CPC: Its Mission and Contributions’
Features / 1 September 2021
1 September 2021
CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at a milestone publication from the Communist Party of China that outlines the continuity of its political system, its approach to democracy and how it intends to develop into a prosperous, advanced socialist society by 2049
Hammer & Sickle exploding
Features / 23 August 2021
23 August 2021
Three decades on from the demise of the USSR, it is clearer than ever that capitalism cannot solve the problems faced by humanity, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
CPC
Features / 6 July 2021
6 July 2021
In the final piece in the series, CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at how market reforms and ‘opening up’ after 1978 built on the first 30 years of the revolution, rather than reversing it
China flags
Features / 1 July 2021
1 July 2021
Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms of 1978 were a turning point in the history of the country. CARLOS MARTINEZ puts the policies into context
agitation
Features / 25 June 2021
25 June 2021
The Morning Star marks the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China with a series of articles by CARLOS MARTINEZ. This week he looks at the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76
A worker installs a flag-shaped flowers decoration with a Co
Features / 17 June 2021
17 June 2021
In his ongoing series, CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at how a failed set of policies aimed at modernising China’s economy and agriculture became so notorious — and misunderstood
CPC
Features / 9 June 2021
9 June 2021
The CPC initially imposed a reforming, interim stage before socialism, where private business would provide the engine to break imperial domination and industrialise — but soon Cold War realities forced them push ahead, explain CARLOS MARTINEZ
students 1919
Features / 4 June 2021
4 June 2021
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China the Morning Star starts a series of articles by CARLOS MARTINEZ
xaxa
BOOKS / 1 June 2021
1 June 2021
John Ross's book provides an in-depth description of China’s rise, the political strategy that has made that possible and what can be learned from it, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
A health worker gives the ‘V’ sign after getting China's
Features / 31 March 2021
31 March 2021
China is not simply looking for world order that gives it more influence but one where every nation's sovereignty will be increased. This is a vision that the left must support in word and deed, seizing every opportunity that it will bring, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ