Archive for 'China'
Support colleagues striking for press freedom at the Southern Weekend Newspaper, Guangzhou
Posted by John, January 8th, 2013 - under China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese workers, Free speech, Strikes.
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Please add my name to the Media Alliance letter to show my support to my colleagues at Southern Weekend in their fight for press freedom and the fundamental principles of journalism.
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Tiananmen Square: remembering the past and imagining the future
Posted by John, June 5th, 2012 - under China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese workers, Democracy, Revolution, Tiananmen Square.
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Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It has the strength to overthrow the corrupt and bankrupt butchers in Beijing.
Having done that the Chinese working class will be forced to take the revolution beyond bourgeois political demands and threaten capitalism in China itself. Then and only then can we talk about genuine socialism, the self-emancipation of the working class through its own democratic organs of societal control.
Tiananmen Square – a dress rehearsal for the future
Posted by John, June 1st, 2011 - under China, Chinese Communist Party, Tiananmen Square.
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Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It has the strength to overthrow the corrupt and bankrupt butchers in Beijing.
2010: a class odyssey
Posted by John, December 28th, 2010 - under 2010, Capitalism, China, Chinese imperialism, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate summit, Fighting back, Resistance, Ruling class, US imperialism, United States, Working class, Zionism.
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During 2010 the third phase of the global financial crisis – making workers pay – began to play itself out. Capital in Europe has used and is using its parliamentary dominance - it doesn’t matter whether reformists or conservatives are in power – to attack their working classes. While there have been magnificent strikes and demonstrations involving masses [...]
Wikileaks and the narrowing of democratic options
Posted by John, December 5th, 2010 - under China, Chinese imperialism, Imperialism, US imperialism, United States, Wikileaks.
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The bourgeois and state attacks on Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange for the crime of exposing their lies are a further indication of the threadbare nature of the democratic veneer of capitalism.
Our legal system and theirs: Hu, Hicks, Habib, Haneef…
Posted by John, March 31st, 2010 - under ABCC, Ark Tribe, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian justice, Australian politics, BHP, China, David Hicks, Julia Gillard, Justice, Mamdouh Habib, Mohamed Haneef, Rio Tinto, Stern Hu.
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Australian justice is like Chinese justice – it represents the interests of the rich and powerful.
The US – when killing kids is OK
Posted by John, December 30th, 2009 - under Afghanistan, China, Chinese imperialism, Imperialism, Iraq, Killing kids, Pakistan, Somalia, US foreign policy, US imperialism, Yemen.
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Apparently it is OK to kill kids if you are the American ruling class. Only turning this upside down world right way up – working class revolution – can stop the murder of the innocents.
The failure of Copenhagen: the success of environmental imperialism
Posted by John, December 20th, 2009 - under China, Chinese imperialism, Copenhagen, Copenhagen climate summit, Global Warming, Global economy, Globalisation, US imperialism, United States.
Comments: 7
A non-binding, non-targeted piece of poly waffle is what both United States and Chinese imperialism wanted, to protect and extend their own power.
Mao: from mass murder to the market
Posted by John, October 1st, 2009 - under Capitalism, China, Chinese Communist Party, Revolution, State capitalism.
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The triumph of mass murderer Mao Zedong was not the victory of socialism; it was the victory of a de-classed peasant army headed by intellectuals and others parading as ‘communists’ over warlord capitalism. Mao proceeded to build capitalism in the backward country, using Stalinism in Russia as his model. This saw the state concentrate capital in its own hands, forcing [...]
The United Nations: Gaddafi is right
Posted by John, September 25th, 2009 - under China, France, Gaddafi, Great Britain, Imperialism, Russia, UN Security Council, United Nations, United States.
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Gaddafi is right. The UN is part of the problem, not the cure. When we see George W Bush in leg irons at the Hague then we will know that there is justice in the world.