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China, which only two decades ago was still mired in backwardness, is now engaged in a titanic rivalry with the US in which it is holding its own. How did the Chinese economy manage to do this? And what does this mean for the crisis of world capitalism?
For some time, military parades were obscure remnants of the past. American imperialism was too powerful. Not any more.
The 1949 Chinese Revolution was the second-greatest event in human history. Half a billion people threw off the yoke of imperialism, capitalism, and landlord servitude. But today, China is neither communist nor a workers’ state.
The global trade war launched by Trump has already resolved into one between the two dominant actors of the world economy, the US and China. The question is: who holds the cards? Who will blink first?
Over the last decade, China has become Western capitalism’s primary competitor on the world market, setting the stage for intensifying rivalry with the US.
Conflict has sharpened this summer between China and the US-backed regime in the Philippines over their conflicting claims in the South China Sea.
At present, Chinese banks are harshly restricting the outflow of funds. This is undoubtedly sending a dangerous signal that China’s banking system may be facing a serious shortage of funds.
Despite its bureaucratic deformations, the Chinese Revolution offers a glimpse of what a planned economy can achieve once the American working class takes power.
While some on the left have celebrated China’s ambitions as a counterweight to the United States, capitalism has been restored in China, and today it has all the features of a rising imperialist power.
Written in 1916, in the middle of the First World War, Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism is an essential work for understanding the phenomena of war and imperialism today.
It has been over two months since the Northern Alliance—which is made up of armed ethnic organizations and the armed wing of the Burmese Communist Party—launched “Operation 1027” in northern Shan State in Burma.
Against the backdrop of economic crisis, brutal dictatorship, war, and a lack of leadership, the Burmese working class is facing conditions that once again push them towards struggle.
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.