Despite all the chaos, confusion, and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project—escalating Washington’s imperial rivalry with China.
China’s labour movement under fire
30 November 2025, byChina’s labour movement is of strategic importance for the global working class. Yet little data is available about its struggles due to government restrictions on the media and labour-focused organisations.
For Hong Kong activists: Exile, Prison and Repression Without Borders
30 November 2025, byFrom Hong Kong’s cells to the streets of London and Taipei, stories of activists, former prisoners and exiles who resist as Beijing extends control beyond the city’s borders
The Four Critical Junctures of Taiwan DPP’s Transformation from Democratic Reformers to US Client
29 November 2025, byTaiwan’s social and political structure are facing greater division and confrontation as the US-China conflict intensifies. During the course of this confrontation, the successive administrations of Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), along with various groupings in its camp, have increasingly bent to the US anti-China strategy, and are calling for “defending democracy” against the looming threat from China. As part of this, the DPP regime has made several moves to tighten control on the society, like the Anti-Infiltration Act, the proposed Digital Media Services Act, and the All-out Defense Mobilization Readiness Act.
Preliminary Theses on the Taiwan Strait Crisis and Taiwanese Self-Determination
26 November 2025, byEditorial of Worker Democracy, a Chinese socialist journal. It has been translated by the authors.
We fight, we have rights: How soldiers’ democracy powers Ukraine’s resistance
19 November 2025, by“For nearly four years, Ukrainian defenders have fought not only Russian imperialism but also their own state’s failures in mobilisation, welfare, and accountability.”
Free public transport in Ukraine
19 November 2025, by ,The common weal versus capitalist modernity.
Free public transport can open cities to all. It combats social injustice and can also help to tackle climate change, by moving away from car-centred urban transport systems.
Public transport has been made free in more than 130 municipalities in Brazil – and, in Europe, Luxembourg; Tallinn, Estonia; Belgrade, Serbia and several French cities.
In this interview, the writer and activist Denys Gorbach talks with Dr Simon Pirani about Kryvyi (…)
No concessions to any imperialism! The Zapatistas’ Clear Stand on Ukraine
19 November 2025, by“The Zapatista Army of National Liberation chose differently. From the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico’s Indigenous revolutionaries issued an uncompromising condemnation of the invasion that prioritised solidarity with grassroots resistance over geopolitical convenience. Their position—supporting Ukrainian resistance and Russian anti-war movements whilst rejecting both Putin and NATO—offered a radical alternative to the campist logic that dominated leftist discourse across Latin America and in Spain. When Israel launched its assault on Gaza in October 2023, the Zapatistas applied the same ethical framework, condemning those who "justified Putin’s invasion of Ukraine citing ’self-defense’ but now invalidate that argument against Israel, and vice versa."”
Anarchists in wartime. The experience of Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine
19 November 2025, byWhat does it mean to be left-wing and find yourself facing an invasion that you didn’t choose or want, that forces you to revise your principles, while continuing to defend a more just society? A Discussion with the Ukrainian anti-authoritarian group Solidarity Collectives.
Raging Against Vladimir Putin’s War Machine
19 November 2025, by“In Russia and occupied Ukraine, many thousands of civilians have been jailed or forcibly disappeared for speaking out against the invasion. The numbers reflect a crackdown on dissent worse than at any point since the 1950s.”
