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  • Chinese Trotskyists

    The Longest Night

    27 November 2024, by Gregor Benton

    The Longest Night: Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora, Editors/Translators: Gregor Benton and Yang Yang, with an introduction by Gregor Benton.

    This sequel to Prophets Unarmed delves into the tumultuous journey of Chinese Trotskyism after 1949, tracing its evolution through defeat, exile, and diaspora, while showcasing the enduring relevance of its revolutionary ideals through memoirs, theoretical writings, and historical analyses; this extract is taken from the introduction by Gregor Benton.

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  • Imperialism

    Imperialism as Antagonistic Cooperation

    20 November 2024, by Promise Li

    In the months before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s uneasy visit to Beijing last year, the CEOs of J.P. Morgan, Starbucks, Apple, General Motors, and Tesla had amiable meetings with former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Reaffirming what Xi Jinping and other Chinese ministers have declared on an annual basis, Qin assured Elon Musk that China “remain[s] committed to fostering a better market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment.” [1]

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  • Geopolitics

    Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in times of “reactionary acceleration”

    20 November 2024, by Jaime Pastor

    Within the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump’s recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have been established since the end of the Second World War. The most tragic manifestation of this crisis (which calls into question even the future of the UN) is found in the genocidal war against Gaza (Awad, 2024), to which are currently added around 56 wars across the planet.

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  • Britain

    Debate on the Left in Britain – towards a new broad party?

    17 November 2024, by Dave Kellaway

    “British politics has become much more volatile and the hold of the two mainstream parties, Labour and the Conservatives, over the electorate has become weaker. ”

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