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, by AU Loong-yu
This is the longuer version of this article. [1] A much shorter version of it, posted online earlier, can also be found on ESSF website Chinese Nationalism and the ‘New Left’:
The ‘Anti-Globalization Movement’ captured world attention again from 11 to 18 December 2005, when Korean farmers (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Beginning in late 1978, the Communist Party of China’s “reform and door opening” program has purportedly sought to strengthen China’s socialist course by introducing market mechanisms to speed the development of the productive forces. However, by the 1990s, especially in the second half, when (…)
, by CHENG Eva
The gap between the rich and poor in China, which started to widen when Beijing embarked on the pro-market reforms in the late 1970s, has now widened to an unprecedented level. According to a recent study by China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the richest 10% of the country’s (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Rosa Luxemburg has the well-deserved reputation as being one of the most radical defenders of democracy and one of the most uncompromising critics of the market economy in the labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Peoples Republic of China has the reputation as having (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
This is the second part of a study. To call the first part, click on this llink: The Post MFA era and the rise of China
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THE HUGE GROWTH of China’s manufacturing in the last 20 years cannot be attributed to China’s embrace of the world market alone, as neoliberal academics want us (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) expired in 2005, ending 30 years of a quota system under the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA). Ending the ATC signalled the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) promotion of free trade in this sector. However, phasing in free trade here has proved to be far (…)
, by HUSSON Michel
China is not only an immense tee-shirt factory. It is also a society that is rapidly changing, comprises a fifth of the planet’s population and is bursting onto the scene of the word economy.
China does not fall into the classical categories, since it is a country governed by a Communist (…)
, by HAN Dongfang
A railway worker caught up in the events of Tiananmen Square, now using his radio show to broadcast the problems of Chinese factory hands live on air. Han Dongfang describes life in the Red Army, student-worker unity in 1989, surviving TB and torture in prison and the China Labour Bulletin’s (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Grenzeloos. What do you think of predictions that in a few decades China will be a superpower challenging the US on a global scale?
Gilbert Achcar. These predictions are usually based on projections of the current Chinese rates of growth, whereas it is far from certain that China will be able (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Just as China completed its top leadership transition during the 10-day annual parliamentary session which ended on March 14, it upped the ante with Taiwan, seeking to intimidate any future efforts by the island to seek formal independence from China.
An anti-secession law that authorises the (…)
, by CHENG Eva, Collective / Multiple signers
Introduction to the document
Increasing domestic criticism of Beijing’s procapitalist course
by Eva Cheng Over the past decade, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been escalating its pro-capitalist agenda, a pro-capitalist current among China’s economists—known as the neoliberals—has (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
Political Situation
In the decade following the 1989 uprising of the democratic movement and its subsequent repression, the Chinese government - led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - has remained stable. Many commentators agree that it will remain so for the foreseeable future, and that (…)
, by BUSTER Gustavo
The 20th People’s National Assembly met in Beijing in March 2003 to approve changes in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the executive bodies of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which had been decided on four months earlier by the nomenclature of the party at its 16th (…)
, by LEW Roland
The 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took place in mid- November. It has become a routine and well-controlled event, held at a fixed date (every five years), which was far from the case in the past (Congresses were held in 1928, 1945, 1956 and then 1969, subsequently becoming (…)
, by QIN Hui
Where is the PRC heading? One of its leading intellectual iconoclasts, after describing his origins in the Cultural Revolution, offers a long-range comparative perspective on the Chinese state’s strategy for land and industry today. The divisions in the intelligentsia and the fate of the (…)
, by BENTON Gregor, ROUSSET Pierre
On December 30, 2002, the Chinese Trotskyist leader Wang Fanxi died of heart failure in Leeds, Britain, aged 95. Born in Xiashi near Hangzhou in 1907, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1925, abandoning his literature studies at Beijing University for the revolution. In 1931, he was (…)
, by LEW Roland
The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has joined the WTO (World Trade Organization), not without difficulty and after 15 years of determined effort by a regime which is described as post-Maoist but which is in fact anti-Maoist in its social and economic logic. The next congress of the CCP will be (…)
, by YUFAN Liu
Private business is rapidly replacing the public sector in China. Rapid economic growth and corruption is leading to huge social tensions. Will China present a challenge to US economic and political domination in the coming decades?
In the decade following the 1989 uprising of the democratic (…)
, by NAN Shan
People who advocate for China’s entry to World Trade Organization (WTO) have to agree that China’s accession will have a great impact on its agriculture. During the last ten years before the accession, however, farmers already could not bear the burdens of high taxes and charges and increasing (…)
, by MAITAN Livio
In the balance sheets that marked the beginning of the New Year, the People’s Republic of China occupied a special place. In Washington, representatives of the establishment seem convinced that the major competition on the international scale in the coming decades will be between the US and (…)
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