Place: China
Samuel Farber responds to Mesa-Lago’s comments and argues that China cannot be a model for Cuba, noting the connection between political repression and their model of capital accumulation in China.
In response to Samuel Farber’s critique, Carmelo Mesa-Lago defends his economic reform proposals for Cuba as Keynesian and anti-neoliberal.
Samuel Farber critically reviews Carmelo Mesa-Lago’s latest book comparing Cuba with China and Vietnam, and its proposals for market reform in Cuba.
At the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro (6–7 July 2025), no real desire to break away from the US currency was expressed. De-dollarzation remains a distant prospect.
Richard Smith argues that repression of workers in China is the main reason for its trade advantage, and calls for a trade policy based on solidarity with Chinese workers.
We can understand the institutionalisation of Trumpism as a response to three or four basic trends, including relative imperial decline, problems of ‘secular stagnation’ in the capitalist core, the rise of Chinese state-capitalism, and the energy crisis.
Ruo Yan and Andrew Sebald introduce a symposium on the independent working-class struggles in China, calling for international solidarity.
Zoe Zhao and Olia Shu analyze many forms of exploitation of women workers in China, such as in family workshops and digital platforms, and their resistance.
Zhang Mazi highlights the power held by Foxconn workers and calls on US workers to build solidarity, including by targeting Foxconn’s global supply chains.
On the extensive collaborations between the Chinese and Israeli regimes on surveillance technologies, which are also increasingly used in North America.
Julie Liu and Roy Li discuss the trajectory of labour struggles in China in recent years, fighting against severe state repression and censorship.
Ellen David Friedman, Alex T. Tom and Kevin Lin discuss the experiences and importance of worker-to-worker solidarity for democratic unionism between the US and China.
Given China’s drivers, it’s difficult to imagine how this trend could be halted or reversed short of the collapse or overthrow of the CCP. That’s coming but of course it’s impossible to predict when.
If Xi’s Chinese-style modernization has shattered the myth that modern-is-Western, then why is his economy still so dependent on Western science and technology?
In fact, China’s “miracle” was neither an “unprecedented feat” nor as rapid as the modernizations of its own East Asian neighbors, let alone characterized by “long-term social stability.”
Xi’s “new type civilization” is the opposite of all this. Instead of enlightenment, emancipation, freedom, critical thinking, science and democracy.
When one surveys the history of American interventionism in other countries—from Brazil to Guatemala, from Cuba to Chile, from Mossadegh’s Iran to Grenada and Nicaragua—and when we contemplate
More than just the lockdown, what motivates these protests is people’s sense of not being heard in a political system that so arrogantly disregards popular opinions.
The United States has long dominated Latin America, but today—in fact for the last twenty years—it is being challenged by China, which has invested billions and established political and some military relationships with many governments in the region.
Peter Ranis discusses repression, exploitation, and ecological devastation in China’s authoritarian capitalism.
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