Alexandre Anfruns “You must know a great fighter, he is a personality in his country” – the French worker of North African origin who introduced him to me told me. It was rigorously true. For many years Mamadou Mansaré has embodied the voice of the Guinean workers’ movement in the National Confederation of Guinean Workers…
Category: CHINA
Seventy Years of Growth and Development of the People’s Republic of China Confirms that a Socialist Horizon is Possible
On October 1, 1949, after the military victory of the revolutionary forces led by Mao Tse Tung, the triumph of the Chinese Revolution was consolidated and the People’s Republic of China was founded. Thus, once the liberation of the country was achieved, a stage of important social and economic achievements began in China, which continues…
The Hong Kong Protests and Imperialism: What the Corporate Media Isn’t Saying
Sheila Xiao The Hong Kong protests have attracted considerable attention, and also considerable confusion. The goal of this article is to provide context for what is going on in Hong Kong today now that the anti-extradition protests have entered their sixth month. Without providing a basic historical understanding of Hong Kong, the social conditions that…
Hong Kong: The Treaty of Nanjing Returns
Manlio Dinucci Hundreds of young Chinese, in front of the British Consulate in Hong Kong, sing the God Save the Queen and shout “Great Britain Saves Hong Kong”, a rally call in London by 130 parliamentarians who ask that British citizenship be given to residents of the former colony. In this way, Britain is emerging…
Hong Kong is Scared – of the Rioters
Andre Vltchek It was once a British police station, as well as the Victoria Prison Compound. Hong Kong inhabitants used to tremble just from hearing its name mentioned. This is where people were detained, interrogated, humiliated, tortured and disappeared. Now, after Hong Kong ‘returned to China’, it was converted into the Tai Kwun Center –…
Venezuela Oil Production Continues Decline as China Cancels More Shipments
Ricardo Vaz US threats of secondary sanctions have seen Chinese oil company CNPC cancel shipments from Venezuela for the second month in a row. (VTV) Venezuela’s oil output has continued its downward trend according to figures from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The latest report from the oil cartel detailed that, based…
Russia and China Boost Gold Reserves Moving Away from US Currency
Russia’s Gold Reserves Scale New Highs in Growing Shift From US Dollar Svetlana Ekimenko Russia has been stockpiling gold bullion in recent years in an attempt to lessen its economy’s reliance on the US dollar, with forecasts showing the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves are set to outstrip those of Saudi Arabia. Russia’s gold…
Spotlight on Africa
Valery Kulikov In the world we live in today, amid a scramble which is unfolding to gain control of the key natural resources we exploit and to shape the political world order of the 21st century, there are many areas where Africa and Russia have interests which overlap objectively. About 50-52% of the Earth’s natural…
BRICS Needs a Unified Front Against US Intervention in Venezuela
Ramona Wadi Venezuela’s destabilisation by the US is understood best by the countries that have faced imperialist interference. Cuba’s revolutionary process, for example, has produced consistent political solidarity with Venezuela and is actively urging countries to reconsider their stance as regards the US sanctions which are creating severe humanitarian consequences. The recent executive order signed…
Venezuela, Ukraine, Hong Kong: Color Revolutions and Regime Change, A Modern Scourge Spawning Economic Destabilization and Civil War
Carla Stea Three Case Studies Venezuela There are innumerable examples throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but three of the most notorious demonstrations of Washington, and its European cohorts incubating massive human tragedy and/or civil wars can be exemplified by Washington’s cultivation, indeed creation of toxic opposition movements whose goal is the destabilization and destruction…
China and Panama: Making Things Clear
Julio Yao Villalaz Since the Panamanian government of Juan Carlos Varela established relations with Peoples’ Republic of China in 2017, the pressures to defame, distort and discredit the objectives of a normal relationship with Beijing have not ceased, including inventing and attributing to them crazy intentions that only exist in the unbalanced minds of those…
President Maduro: “Dialogue is the Only Way to Overcome the Political Deadlock in Venezuela”
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an interview with Xinhua at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 27, 2019. Dialogue is the only means to overcome political deadlock in Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro told Xinhua in an exclusive interview. (Xinhua/Marcos Salgado) Dialogue is the only means to overcome political deadlock in Venezuela, President Nicolas…
