February 14, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — When China’s richest man, Want Jianlin, warned last December that a U.S. trade war against China would result in disaster for the United States it was no idle threat (...)
February 14, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — When China’s richest man, Want Jianlin, warned last December that a U.S. trade war against China would result in disaster for the United States it was no idle threat (...)
China is becoming the hegemonic power of the 21st century. The economic crisis that has profoundly shaken the West since 2008 has only accelerated this process.
Through a combination of its own merits, the mistakes of others and a global crisis that has thrown the world off balance, China (...)
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The vote in Britain for leaving the European Union and the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election are part of the same process and not coincidental events. What we are witnessing is a worldwide shift to the right, represented by Trump, the rise of the (...)
The US president has dismayed the world; Xi Jinping has wooed it. This could be a huge win for Beijing.
Two years ago, some European and US experts gathered to discuss China in an elegant English country house. The setting was seductive, but the mood was dark. Two years into Xi Jinping’s (...)
Only months ago Donald Trump’s chief strategist predicted military involvement in east Asia and the Middle East in Breitbart radio shows.
The United States and China will fight a war within the next 10 years over islands in the South China Sea, and “there’s no doubt about that”. At the same (...)
Several previous versions of this document have already been put online or in circulation. At its meeting in February 2017, the International Committee of the Fourth International discussed it again. It was adopted, together with two other draft resolutions, as a preparatory document for the (...)
At its meeting in February 2017, the International Committee of the Fourth International adopted this text, together with two other draft resolutions, as a preparatory document for the next FI World Congress to be held in 2018.
Recent years have been marked by waves of political and social (...)
The weeks following an underwhelming Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) mid-September summit in Goa [[https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/14/the-wages-of-sub-imperial-assimilation-brics-fantasies-and-unintended-revelations] and the United States presidential election in November (...)
The shocking victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections is a major turning point that is part of, and will give new momentum to, a surge to the right in world politics. Phil Hearse joins the discussion.
The international situation is dealt with below, but for starters we (...)
Almost everyone is astonished at Trump’s victory. It is said that even Trump was astonished. And of course now everyone is explaining how it happened, although the explanations are different. And everyone is talking about the deep cleavages that the election created (or it reflected?) in the (...)
Does BRICS still offer an alternative model of development that can address the current global crisis? Is this grouping of the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa actually challenging the hegemony of the old powers for the benefit of the rest?
These were the (...)
On both sides of the Atlantic, a previously fringe current of middle-class radicals has moved to the center of politics.
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In the most recent presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the citrine Republican candidate told his rival that if he won, she would be going (...)
In recent years, the Obama administration has made tremendous efforts to strengthen U.S. power in the Asia Pacific region. Implementing its so-called “pivot” and “rebalance” to the area, the Obama administration has worked to position the United States as a Pacific power.
“As President, (...)
Introduction to the text
In accordance with the decision taken by the International Committee in February 2016, the Bureau submits to the discussion a reworked version of the theses entitled “Capitalist globalization, imperialisms, geopolitical chaos and their implications.” Its translation (...)
Phil Hearse examines the corrupt state of capitalism.
The Panama Papers’ revelations about the rich and powerful hiding untold billions in ‘offshore’ tax havens may be shocking, but it’s hardly a surprise to anyone who knows the first thing about the way that big business works. We are (...)
We have entered a new epoch of world imperialism. Its flashpoints fill the daily news. The United States and China are jockeying for hegemony in Asia. In Eastern Europe, Russia and the United States have locked themselves in a new Cold War. These powers are also backing opposing sides in the (...)
The conditions of working-class people in the global north are converging with the conditions of the global south.
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed a permanent global crisis in our political systems, from an increasingly precarious labour market to mass media monopolisation. On (...)
Against all expectations, financial capital has emerged even stronger after the financial crisis having staved off regulation and putting the blame on public spending. But its victory is likely a pyrrhic one as a new crisis looms, one in which the global public could learn from victories such (...)
THE CATASTROPHE THAT Syria has become, and the unfathomable refugee crisis it has unleashed, is a stark mirror reflection of the real condition of a failed world system. We have stated in previous editorials that “imperialism creates problems that it cannot solve,” which in these circumstances (...)
Since the rebellion in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, Black people throughout the United States have been grappling with a number of critical questions such as why are Black people being hunted and killed every 28 hours or more by various operatives of the law? Why don’t Black people seem (...)