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What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (...)
The repeated lesson from other countries is that the loss of immunity and the appearance of new variants make herd immunity a futile goal when it comes to COVID.
After nearly three years of keeping COVID under control, China is experiencing a massive new wave of COVID infections. The official (...)
Video footage from late December shows elderly patients infected with COVID-19 on stretchers receiving oxygen stored in large blue bottles. They are being treated on the road outside the emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital, one of the largest in Shanghai.
Behind the emergency room (...)
This document is dated April 1954 but first appeared in September 1953 or even earlier. It was issued as a top secret internal CCP document ‘for information” only, i.e., not for debate. It followed the arrest of more than one thousand Chinese Trotskyists (known as Trotskyists to Stalinists and (...)
Note: The Chinese original article is [here->https://borderless-hk.com/2023/01/14/why-did-foxconn-workers-protests-in-zhengzhou-happen-the-seven-evil-deeds-of-foxconn-the-ccp-and-apple. Through carefully reviewing the whole processes of the protests the author indicted the collusion between the (...)
Despite different approaches toward the pandemic, the US and China share a commitment to capital accumulation
Days after a significant mass uprising in multiple major cities in China in December, the government completely reversed its zero-COVID policies, which had been in place for the (...)
Having forced draconian lockdowns on his people, China’s supreme leader is now expecting them to believe that the virus is no worse than a cold.
In the chaos of China’s Covid exit wave, China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, has been curiously absent. His last public pronouncement on China’s (...)
The article we’ve translated below was originally self-published by the author, pen-named Zuoyue (左玥), on
FI supporters in the Chinese diaspora outline the significance of the ongoing protest movement in China and their stance to it in this statement approved by the Bureau.
A fire in a residential building in Ürümchi, which killed a number of predominantly Uyghur victims, catalyzed the largest mass (...)
A video footage shows a crowd of students at Tsinghua University in Beijing holding up blank pieces of paper and chanting, “Democracy, rule of law, freedom of expression!” Through a loudspeaker, a young woman can be heard in the background shouting: “If because we are afraid of being arrested, we (...)
Different translations show the nuances in the relationship between China and Russia over nearly a century.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s reaction in response to the Russian aggression has been fiercely debated in the western media. The majority of the discussions have focused (...)
OVER THE PAST weekend, major Chinese cities such as Urumqi, Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Beijing, and over 50 universities —including elite institutions —were rocked by riots, mass demonstrations, and vigils. A protest movement on this scale and with such overtly political (...)
The Chinese population has low immunity against COVID, making it vulnerable to high levels of transmission.
China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to (...)
A surge in both COVID-19 cases and protests inside China presents a dilemma for the ruling Communist Party.
The regime has long adopted a successful strategy of eliminating the virus. Unlike in the United States, where a “profits before people” political framework often dominated, resulting in (...)
Loosening controls further could spark a devastating outbreak, but tightening the rules again could trigger unrest
At the end of October, Xi Jinping had secured his position as China’s most powerful leader in decades, his grip on the country cemented by a norm-breaking third term in office.
At (...)
“The internalisation of a false binary in Western narratives risks resulting in misreading the Chinese protests by interpreting the protesters’ rejection of the authoritarian biopolitics of zero covid as a tacit demand for the necropolitics of the United States. At the same time, this type of (...)
“The present white paper movement is irreducibly Chinese, defined by that country’s extremely harsh lockdowns and ultra-repressive governance. And yet, in another sense, it is universal. It’s the latest in a series of emancipatory struggles that have arisen during these turbulent years of pandemic (...)
In March 2020, after a panicked six weeks of chaos while Covid-19 spread in Wuhan and out, life in China returned to almost normal just as the rest of the world went into lockdown. By that summer, an image of thousands of swimmers without facemasks crowded in a Wuhan public pool became a symbol (...)
People in China are taking mass action to challenge authoritarian rule, capitalist exploitation, and a deadly lockdown policy. Socialists around the world can work in solidarity to support this movement. Here’s how.
The current protests in China signal one of the largest mass mobilizations in (...)
Young, angry protesters in Shanghai confronted the police that encircled them, calling for freedom and shouting, “Aren’t you supposed to serve the people?!” Hundreds had gathered in the evening of November 26th on Urumqi Road in Shanghai, which has served as the symbolic site to hold vigils to pay (...)
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