Hong Kong’s show trials

The trail of Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law.

14 January 2024

Labour commits to Tory spending plans

Tories and Labour have moved into election mode.

13 November 2023

Review: Capitalist China and Socialist Revolution

By Peter Main In this short pamphlet, Simon Hannah seeks to, ‘outline the recent history of China as well as the ways in which the politics and economy of the country have shifted – making it one of the most powerful capitalist and emerging imperialist countries in the world’. More than that, as the title […]

15 October 2023

BRICS+ Where next for the bloc of emerging economies?

At its August conference in South Africa, the BRICS group of ‘emerging markets’ (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) agreed to accept six new members.

16 September 2023

What’s behind the recent bank collapses?

Silicon Valley, Signature, Credit Suisse, the first of many?

28 March 2023

China: end of zero covid?

Growing divisions in the party have forced a change of tack.

18 December 2022

China: Xi locks down the party

Who is Xi scared of?

01 November 2022

Mini-budget: This was what Brexit was really about

By Peter Main At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget” looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Anyone who seriously thinks that forcing part-time workers on Universal Credit to find a few more hours of work each week is going to have the slightest effect on the national […]

29 September 2022

Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev, 1932–2022

In death, as in life, the role and significance of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 and was buried on September 3, remains disputed.

13 September 2022

Elizabeth Windsor (1926–2022)

HOUR AFTER hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be’s underlining their own importance by recalling their past royal encounters—there is no way of avoiding the passing of Elizabeth II. More importantly, the suspension of strike action by the RMT and by […]

13 September 2022

Left maintains NEC seats – despite Momentum

Four of the five candidates of the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance were elected to the NEC.

12 September 2022

Economy: The worst is yet to come

Assumptions that damage to the UK economy was inevitable have now been backed up with concrete evidence.

15 July 2022

Sri Lanka: economic meltdown sparks mass revolt

Once hailed as a model of development, Sri Lanka is facing complete economic breakdown

31 May 2022

Sri Lanka: For a Constituent Assembly!

By Peter Main Rajapaksa is sending his thugs to kill us”, that was the one line message sent to the League by a supporter at the protest camp on Galle Face Green in Colombo on May 9. The Rajapaksa in question was Mahinda, the Prime Minister, but the attack was no doubt supported by his […]

14 May 2022

What is an Action Programme?

Trotskyism in the 21st century.

04 May 2022

What’s the Chinese for ‘Lehman Brothers’?

CHINA’S CONSTRUCTION industry, a key lever in Beijing’s entire economic policy, is facing a debt crisis of enormous proportions. Attention has focused on Evergrande, a development company, whose total debts are estimated at $310 billion and which failed to pay some $96 million interest on foreign bonds in September. Just three days before being declared […]

28 October 2021

Labour purge is price for Corbyn’s failure to confront bureaucracy

NEC purge signals end of left's attempt to wrest control of the party

27 August 2021

100,000 deaths and a year of government failures

We need a Zero Covid strategy

09 February 2021

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