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, by OWNBY David
China’s leftist intellectuals, once regime critics in the 1990s, have shifted from their socialist origins to support statism and the China model. Where does that leave their thinking now?
ILLUSTRATION: XINMEI LIU
Last May, in a Beijing coffee shop, a well-known Chinese intellectual (…)
, by SHENHAV-SHAHRABANI Yehouda
Elias Khoury’s new book encapsulates the symbiotic relationship between literature and the Nakba, exploring its nature as a continuum of calamities.
“The Continuous Nakba,” by Elias Khoury, Dar Al Adab, 2023.
Palestinians march during a rally marking the anniversary of the Nakba in the West (…)
, by BISHARAT Ghousoon, ZOUBI Baker
Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel joined the annual March of Return, with many making connections to the violent displacement in Gaza.
In the shadow of what many Palestinians are describing as a second Nakba in Gaza, around 15,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel participated in the (…)
, by Revolutionary Communists in China
The year of 2023 has seen an escalation of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Israel has continuously engaged in conflicts with Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, leading to a full-scale war on October 7, 2023. This war, initiated by Israel, has resulted in brutal and inhumane (…)
, by BENTON Gregor
Gregor Benton on the emergence of leftist and Trotskyist youth organisations in China and the Chinese diaspora.
Critical socialist groups in China and in Chinese-speaking communities abroad have for a while now been in the throes of re-establishing a presence, and in recent months this (…)
, by Chinese and Hong Kong socialists
This is an expanded version of a letter written by Chinese and Hong Kong socialists on the mainland and overseas on the night of 26 November 2022, when protests first erupted. The abridged Chinese version first appeared in Borderless Movement on 27 November. This version has been revised through (…)
, by YAN Ruo
Peng Lifa disappeared into the clutches of Chinese security forces in Beijing after he unfurled banners off a bridge with slogans attacking the autocracy of President Xi Jinping. But his daring act—and his manifesto calling for mass action to achieve democracy—have stirred hope for change and a (…)
, by MASON Paul
The Chinese communist elite is the enemy of the Chinese workers. Its Western apologists need to be confronted.
On 4 January 2022 the Hong Kong democracy activist Chow Hang-tung was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment for writing an article in which she urged people to light candles privately (…)
, by FENG Gao
Authorities in the eastern province of Shandong are detaining Maoist activists ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) centenary celebrations on July 1, Taiwanese media reported.
Police in Shandong’s Jining city are running a nationwide operation targeting leftwingers in a bid to (…)
An interview with a volunteer at an independent left publication and organization in mainland China
In an age where young people have become increasingly trapped within the culture of consumerism, where the third film in the Tiny Times series grossed 5.2 billion yuan at the box offices in one (…)
, by QIAN Ben-li
LAST JULY, 2018, 89 workers at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co. Ltd. demanded the right to set up a workplace union. Although over the past decade there have been a growing number of disputes and strikes by Shenzhen workers, the Jasic case is unusual because it was openly supported by a group (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
China’s 1989 democratic movement saw intellectuals and students excluding workers from the very beginning. After the failure of that democratic movement, intellectuals soon divided into liberals and the New Left, cleaved by the false dichotomy of “state versus market.” Intellectuals may have (…)
, by BLANCHARD Ben, SHEPHERD Christian
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police detained a well-known Marxist at a top university on Wednesday, a witness said, on the sensitive anniversary of the 125th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, whose legacy remains deeply contested.
Qiu Zhanxuan, head of the Peking University (…)
, by WILPERT Gregory, XU Zhun
Chinese university students, inspired by their studies of Marx, are facing an increasing state crackdown on their movement in support of workers who have been trying to organize Shenzhen’s Jasic Technology. Prof. Zhun Xu analyzes the situation.
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GREG WILPERT: It’s The Real News (…)
, by SONAM Palden
Students are finding out the hard way that there is a huge gap between pure Marxism and the Chinese brand.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded on the ideological foundation of Marxism in 1921 and led the country to a revolution-fueled bloody civil war, in which the communists (…)
, by War on Want
Left-feminist student group dissolved by force and members facing harassment, prison.
In November 2017, police in China stormed a left-wing student reading group at the Guangdong University of Technology where eight students were arrested and jailed on trumped up charges. Since then, their families have been harassed and intimidated. Sun Ting Ting – the only woman released on bail – has been forced to report into police station, and in February 2018 she was violently removed from a train when (...)
, by FRIEDMAN Eli
China’s leftist revival is overstated. The country’s new “Maoists” cede too much ground to nationalism and the market.
“It’s a golden period to be a leftist in China.” At least that was the assessment of Minzu University of China professor and well-known Maoist Zhang Hongliang in a recent New (…)
, by CARTER Lance
In a country where the Communist Party has dominated “left-wing” politics for over sixty years, dissent has often been deemed a “right-wing” or “counterrevolutionary” affair. Subsequently, many dissidents and parts of the general population have embraced the term “right-wing” as implying (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
Review of Wang Hui, The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, London: Verso, 2010, 272 pp., $26.95.
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The publisher of Wang Hui’s book described it as follows: “arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same (…)
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