The US administration is endangering lives by reversing environmental protection laws, CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON argues
China’s rise: multipolarity provides a framework for socialist advance
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
A health worker gives the ‘V’ sign after getting China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, last Tuesday, at a vaccination centre in Quezon City, Philippines
It’s time to stop retreating and go on the offensive to promote working-class interests, argues DOUG NICHOLLS
Marco Rubio wants to defeat socialism in Nicaragua, not restore ‘democracy,’ writes JOHN PERRY
Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working‑class Americans to deal with a housing shortage, writes ERAN BEN-JOSEPH
DIANE ABBOTT provides an analysis of the reasons for EU and British voters’ dramatic swing to the right
Train drivers’ union Aslef general secretary DAVE CALFE speaks to Ben Chacko about his hopes that Burnham’s devolution agenda will include the importance of the railway
THE slogan “neither Washington nor Beijing but international socialism” is predicated on the notion that China is an emerging imperialist power and that the struggle between the US and China is an inter-imperialist rivalry.
In this series, I have attempted to prove this assumption incorrect; that the basic character of global politics in the current era is a struggle between the US-led push for its continued hegemony and the China-led push for a multipolar world order.
One key remaining question is whether China’s vision of multipolarity offers any opportunity for global socialist advance. This is not simply a matter of idle curiosity for the radical left.
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