Asia & the Pacific

Laos keeps coronavirus under control

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic, referred to as the Lao PDR or Laos, has not recorded an increase in COVID-19…

April 27, 2020

China’s socialist planning and COVID-19

The global COVID-19 viral pandemic has exposed in the sharpest light the contradiction between a globalized world economy and a…

April 3, 2020

Kerala mobilizes against pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every region of the world. The speed at which it spreads and the relentlessness…

April 2, 2020

Exchange of solidarity messages with Korea

The Workers’ Party of Korea is the guiding political body of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. From 1950 to…

April 2, 2020

China calls for lifting of U.S. sanctions against Iran

Amid the fight against the coronavirus COVID-19, China called on March 16 for the immediate lifting of U.S. sanctions on…

March 17, 2020

COVID-19 exposes failure of U.S. health care

In this pandemic, people in the U.S. should be questioning why the current capitalist health care system seems unable to…

March 16, 2020

How China has controlled the virus

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc in country after country, causing total shutdowns in Italy, Spain and elsewhere, China…

March 16, 2020

Coronavirus highlights gap between socialist and capitalist responses

March 9 -- Mounting concern and panic over the global outbreak COVID-19 has gripped headlines as more countries grapple with…

March 10, 2020

How Cuba’s antiviral medicine is helping China

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde Rosa Miriam Elizalde is a Cuban journalist and editor of the site Cubadebate.  Reprinted from La…

March 4, 2020

Spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) exposes profit system

March 2 -- As this is written, the coronavirus (COVID-19) has become a pandemic reaching around the world, almost entirely…

March 3, 2020