Everything You Need to Know About the Hong Kong Protests
Hong Kong's government tried to rush through a bill that would limit civil liberties. Instead they triggered a tidal wave of protests — some of the largest in modern history.
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Build, Baby, Build!
Two decades of unprecedented infrastructure investments transformed China. Then the country hit a wall of debt.
The American Empire Isn’t in Decline
The foreign policy establishment remains confident it can steer the US into a new age of global hegemony.
When Will Capitalism Answer for Its Crimes?
People aren't turning to socialism because they're naive. They're turning to socialism because they know we don't have to live in misery.
Mussolini in Beijing
The Chinese model of state-directed capitalism is coming apart — and it’s unleashing a new authoritarianism.
Tech Workers Are Workers, Too
Tech workers in China and the US recently united in the largest display of tech worker solidarity we’ve ever seen. It’s exactly what we need to prevent a global race to the bottom in tech.
Between Washington and Beijing
The conventional wisdom about the Hong Kong protests is wrong. The threat to Hong Kong's already-weak democracy comes not only from China’s authoritarian state capitalism but the West’s neoliberalism.
Demanding an End to Uyghur Oppression
We can oppose the saber-rattling and militarism of the US’s China hawks without downplaying the oppression of the Uyghur people.
Anatomy of a Collapse
The Chinese state's intervention after the stock market crash was immensely political — as was the collapse itself.
The Taiwanese Way
Taiwan's recent election was a referendum on its past — and a battle for its future.
The Urbanization of the Chinese Working Class
China’s ambitious new urbanization plan comes with a set of contradictions the Communist Party won’t be able to control.
Assessing Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was one of the most important Communist leaders of the twentieth century. Celebrated by the West for his pro-market reforms, leftists should be more skeptical of his accomplishments.
Taiwan Shouldn’t Be Used as a Geopolitical Pawn
During the Cold War, US officials saw Taiwan as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and supported Chiang Kai-Shek’s dictatorship. Modern-day Taiwan has developed a democratic culture that shouldn’t be subordinated to confrontation between Washington and Beijing.
Capitalism Is Not a “Free Labor” System
Apologists for capitalism like to point to its historically progressive aspects, like its supposed use of “free labor” rather than older forms of labor compulsion. But throughout its history, as the system has conquered new territories for capital accumulation, it has embraced and depended on the most coercive forms of “premodern” production relations.
Joe Biden Has Been Very Good for the Military-Industrial Complex
Joe Biden signed a record-breaking defense budget even as his domestic agenda is languishing. We’re getting all of the Pentagon spending and anti-China saber-rattling — and none of the supposedly transformative social programs.
The US Is Doing Far Worse Than Floating Balloons in Other Countries’ Airspace
Let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that the recently shot-down Chinese balloon was indeed spying. The US doesn’t like other countries snooping on them — something the US is constantly doing all over the planet.
NATO’s Expansion Into Asia Is the Mother of Bad Ideas
US lawmakers say the alliance’s movement into Asia is “inevitable.” It’s actually a completely avoidable, completely bad idea.
What Comes After Globalization?
The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.
Mike Davis on the Crimes of Socialism and Capitalism
We’ve heard for decades that socialism has a body count. But how does it compare to capitalism? Mike Davis discusses Stalin, Mao, and the staggering holocausts of capitalism’s nineteenth-century heyday.
Kim San, Martyr of Korean Socialism
From the struggle against Japanese rule in Korea to his work with China’s revolutionaries, Kim San lived a life committed to socialism and the struggle against imperialism. He deserves to be remembered today.