The New Zealand government announced 1 December that over the coming weeks it will be deploying a force of about 65 ‘peace-keeping’ troops and police to the Solomon Islands, at […]
Part 8 of China in the age of American decrepitude The overthrow of capitalism in China in the early 1950s took place under very unfavourable circumstances. From nearby Korea, US […]
Part 7 of China in the age of American decrepitude When the sudden decline of US industry in the 1980s and 1990s opened the possibility, for the first time in […]
Part 6 of China in the age of American decrepitude For most of the twentieth century, the United States was the dominant world imperialist power. Its power was based on […]
Part 5 of China in the age of American decrepitude Towards the end of the twentieth century United States capitalism was increasingly beset by a crisis of profitability. At the […]
Part 4 of China in the age of American decrepitude I spent the year 2004 as a ‘supply teacher,’ filling gaps in the high schools of Nottingham, England. It was […]
Part 3 of China in the age of American decrepitude The six years following the publication of Lenin’s Imperialism were a time of uninterrupted political upheaval in Europe, as the […]
Part 2 of China in the age of American decrepitude Empires and imperialism in a general sense have existed for at least two thousand years, since the time of the […]
China in the age of American decrepitude – Part 1 The breath-taking rapidity of China’s economic development over the last three or four decades races ahead of our ability to […]
Why then are some supporters of the Palestinian struggle so keen to use the ‘Apartheid State’ designation for Israel? Because the word Apartheid confers on Israel the status of pariah state – to be boycotted, sanctioned etc in the same way that the actual apartheid state was.
A communist at large 