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RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed

EditorDecember 1, 2020

[caption id="attachment_20716" align="alignleft" width="2560"] Photo by Dominik Lückmann via Unsplash[/caption] Fifteen countries signed on to the world’s biggest trade deal in mid-November. Despite the pro-capitalist propaganda this new free trade...

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Hong Kong: Third wave of pandemic and counter-revolutionary repression

EditorAugust 17, 2020August 14, 2020

Government uses new Covid-19 outbreak as pretext to cancel Legco elections The passage of the draconian Hong Kong National Security Law means the counter-revolutionary suppression by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP)...

International National

The Australia-China conflict: a socialist view

EditorAugust 12, 2020August 24, 2020

A new stage of hostility has opened in the strained relationship between the Australian and Chinese governments. At a time when international cooperation is needed more than ever, Canberra and...

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Hong Kong national security law – Xi Jinping’s “nuclear option”

EditorJuly 10, 2020

The effect of the Chinese regime’s new law is similar to a military coup or second “June 4 (Tiananmen)” but using laws, secret police and massive levels of cyber-surveillance instead...

International

The jostling for power in Timor-Leste

EditorMarch 12, 2020March 10, 2020

Timor-Leste, formerly East Timor, saw a new round of political turmoil in February after the government coalition collapsed and the prime minister resigned. While the tiny Southeast Asian nation is...

International

Coronavirus: Fighting the pandemic is a class issue

EditorMarch 3, 2020March 3, 2020

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak is close to becoming a global pandemic – the WHO so far refuses to make this call, but many experts think that point has already been...

International

China’s dictatorship ignites massive coronavirus backlash

EditorFebruary 14, 2020February 12, 2020

“They are lying, we know they are lying. They also know that we know they are lying, and yet they are still lying.” This online comment from a resident of...

International National

China – Australia’s greatest threat?

EditorDecember 19, 2019December 21, 2019

Australian relations with China’s authoritarian regime have deteriorated in recent months. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton added to the tensions when he hypocritically criticised China for ‘undemocratic conduct against Australian...

International Theory & History

70 years since the Chinese revolution

EditorOctober 3, 2019

Xi Jinping, China’s somewhat dented ‘strongman’, this week presided over a grandiose military display to mark the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution on 1 October 1949. Then, capitalism and...

International National

World’s elite unable to resolve global tensions

EditorSeptember 17, 2019

It has been a month of global instability. We have seen rising tensions in the US-China trade war, further signs of a looming global recession, and diplomatic clashes over climate...

International

Hong Kong: China’s ultra-repressive agenda fomenting revolution

EditorSeptember 11, 2019

This is the first of a two-part feature article The political crisis in Hong Kong has taken a new sharp turn. On September 4, the government made an apparent u-turn...

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Capitalism in crisis, new recession looms

EditorAugust 24, 2019

The Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI). An historic meeting of the CWI’s International Executive Committee (IEC) took place in Belgium between 12 and...

International

Hong Kong’s one million strong march

EditorJune 13, 2019June 13, 2019

One million marchers on June 9 vented their anger and defiance against the government’s proposed amendments to the extradition law. It was the biggest demonstration in Hong Kong since the...

International Theory & History

China: 30 years since Tiananmen massacre

EditorJune 4, 2019

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the gruesome massacre in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on the orders of China’s top leaders. China was in the throes of...

International

US-China trade war escalates

EditorMay 29, 2019

President Trump’s decision to increase punitive tariffs against China from one minute past midnight on Friday, 10 May, marks a dramatic escalation of the 10-month old trade war between the...

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Can the US and China end their trade war?

EditorApril 25, 2019

Trump’s “easy to win” trade war drags on despite intensive efforts to make a deal The US-China trade war began in July 2018 with the imposition of tariffs on Chinese...

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Tech war: The next phase of US-China conflict?

EditorJanuary 11, 2019January 10, 2019

On 1 December, the “economic cold war” between China’s Xi Jinping and America’s president Trump took two important steps, but in opposite directions A very fuzzy truce, devoid of specifics,...

International National

Trade war: How will it impact Australia?

EditorOctober 22, 2018

A trade war between the US and China has begun. As part of his ‘America First’ policy, Trump has introduced a range of tariffs. These are taxes on imported goods...

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RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed

Hong Kong: Third wave of pandemic and counter-revolutionary repression

The Australia-China conflict: a socialist view

Hong Kong national security law – Xi Jinping’s “nuclear option”

The jostling for power in Timor-Leste

Coronavirus: Fighting the pandemic is a class issue

China’s dictatorship ignites massive coronavirus backlash

China – Australia’s greatest threat?

70 years since the Chinese revolution

World’s elite unable to resolve global tensions

Hong Kong: China’s ultra-repressive agenda fomenting revolution

Capitalism in crisis, new recession looms

Hong Kong’s one million strong march

China: 30 years since Tiananmen massacre

US-China trade war escalates

Can the US and China end their trade war?

Tech war: The next phase of US-China conflict?

Trade war: How will it impact Australia?

The rich get richer whilst the rest of us suffer under Covid-19

Healthcare workers need proper PPE!

Covid-19 and the housing crisis

Growing support for recognising Invasion Day

The national question in Wales

Neoliberalism: demise or adaptation?

Australia part of a global rise in gender based violence

Ombudsman: ‘Hard Lockdown’ of Melbourne Public Housing Estates Violated Human Rights

RCEP: World’s Biggest Anti-Worker Trade Deal Signed

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