WIN’s recent conference was attended both physically and online by a total of 60 comrades from 20 countries. WIN CONFERENCE 2023 - SESSION 1 - Near War and Class war - the United States and China - YouTube WIN CONFERENCE 2023 - SESSION 2 - THE UKRAINE WAR: AN INTERNATIONALIST APPROACH - Part 1 of 2 - YouTube WIN CONFERENCE 2023 - SESSION 3 - THE UKRAINE WAR: AN INTERNATIONALIST APPROACH … [Read more...]
THE USA AND CHINA – Is there a danger of a new world war?
A Workers’ International Network meeting - May 2023 THE USA AND CHINA Is there a danger of a new world war? - YouTube The United States of America is by far the most powerful country in the world, economically, politically and militarily; but it is in terminal decline. China still has nowhere near the power of the USA, but its economy has grown at an unprecedented rate over the last … [Read more...]
Chinese Investment and Trade Union Rights
A Workers’ International Network meeting - March 2023 THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ROSSING MINERS: Chinese investment and trade union rights - YouTube In August 2020 Namibia's Rössing mine was bought up by China’s state-owned China National Uranium Corporation Limited (CNUC). Its first decisive act was to fire the branch executive committee of the Mineworkers’ Union of Namibia, … [Read more...]
CHINA: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
Greg Benton is Greg is the acknowledged leading expert on the history of the Chinese Communist Party and especially China’s Trotskyist opposition and isEmeritus Professor at Cardiff University.Last month marked the centenary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party. Just a quarter of a century later, it was already in power. Today it is ruling a population of a billion and a half – almost … [Read more...]
China and the West
The Chinese revolution: a critical perspective from the left
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 16th May the Workers’ International Network (WIN) hosted a very successful meeting on The Chinese revolution: a critical perspective from the left, introduced by Gregor Benton, the foremost expert on the history of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Trotskyist opposition[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column … [Read more...]
THE UPRISING IN HONG KONG
Article by Ed Bober When Britain ceded sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997, it was on the agreement that there would be “one country, two systems”. Now it is more a case of “two systems, one problem”. 1.7 million people involved in protests against the Hong Kong government; a general strike; roads blockaded; government buildings occupied; police driven out of certain areas. Hong … [Read more...]
CHINA: THE DECISIVE ARENA OF GLOBAL REVOLUTION
The pre-eminent position of the USA as unrivalled global super-power is now threatened by the massive economic growth of China. All the strutting and fulminations of Trump have to be understood in this context. The US has gradually been losing its capacity to pressurise and bully smaller nations at the same time as it has been losing its dominant economic position. The conflict between the USA … [Read more...]