The issue of China is one of the most important questions of the 21st century for the working class and the oppressed peoples, as well as the hostile imperialist ruling classes of the world. The progressive and revolutionary movements, especially in the U.S., have a great stake in arriving at a correct policy toward China. [...]
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Kerry double-talks as Pentagon stokes war fever
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Fred Goldstein April 15, 2013 » Add the second comment.
As U.S. F-16 and A-10 fighter jets, helicopters and C-130 transport planes powered into the sky from Osan Air Base in south Korea, headed toward the border with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Beijing talking to Chinese government leaders about “reducing tensions” in [...]
Washington’s lies exposed: Background to the Korean crisis
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Fred Goldstein April 9, 2013 » Add the first comment.
To listen to the U.S. government and the big business media talk about how the Pentagon is sending all its firepower to the north Pacific to protect Washington and its allies, you would think that the real threat in the world was the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — north Korea — a country with [...]
New Chinese leader denounces Gorbachev
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Fred Goldstein March 11, 2013 » Add more comments.
But Xi continues dangerous policy of market ‘economic reform’ The new head of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, is reported to have made a private speech to party leaders during a recent trip to southern China. In it, he denounced Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who [...]
Sequester means Europe-style austerity plan
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Fred Goldstein March 7, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Using an obscure, impersonal term — “sequester” — U.S. finance capital is trying to put over European-style, across-the-board budget cuts at the federal level. Shielded by the fog of political gridlock, the bankers and financiers are testing the waters to see how far they can go. If things don’t work out, Congress and President Barack [...]
Lucha global de liderazgo y la desaceleración económica en China
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Fred Goldstein February 26, 2013 » Add the first comment.
La economía china se está desacelerando, parte de la desaceleración económica global que ahora azota al mundo capitalista. China también está sufriendo sus propias contradicciones capitalistas internas. La dirección del Partido Comunista de China se enfrenta ahora a una decisión sobre cómo hacer frente a esta desaceleración. Y esta decisión llega en el preciso momento [...]
Pentagon spreads anti-China hacking lies
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Fred Goldstein February 25, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Feb. 25 — Dramatic front-page headlines in the New York Times accusing the People’s Liberation Army of China of being behind computer hacking in the U.S. have all the earmarks of a Cold War-style propaganda attack on China. This bellicose attack comes at the same time that new leadership is about to take over in China. [...]
Journalists rebel in Guangzhou as right wing in China raises its voice
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Fred Goldstein January 14, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Those in China who advocate bourgeois democracy, deepening capitalist reforms and opening up further to imperialism staged a journalists’ rebellion the first week of January at the nationally circulated magazine Southern Weekend, based in Guangzhou. Guangzhou, which is across the bay from Hong Kong, is the capital of Guangdong province, the stronghold of capitalism in [...]
Origins of Michigan’s ‘right-to-work’ union-busting law
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Fred Goldstein December 21, 2012 » Add the second comment.
The passage of the union-busting “right-to-work” law in Michigan is a severe legal setback for the labor movement and for the workers, the oppressed and all the progressive masses in the state. If not turned around, it will encourage right-wing, anti-labor forces across the country. However, it must be emphasized at the outset that so [...]
The importance of theory guiding practice
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Fred Goldstein December 7, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Excerpts taken from the Nov. 17 talk by Fred Goldstein, WWP secretariat member and author of “Low-Wage Capitalism” and “Capitalism at a Dead End,” given at the Workers World Party Nov. 17-18 conference in New York. I want to talk about an event in the history of science that’s somewhat remote, but I think [...]
