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Provoking Beijing
In 1991 Pelosi and two congressmen unfolded a banner on Tianamen in front of the international media that said: “To those who died for democracy in China.” Police immediately intervened and ended the stunt.
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Despite domestic priorities, RBI will have to follow the U.S. Fed
India will have to respond by increasing interest rates further sooner rather than later. Higher U.S. interest rates make global capital abandon other countries and rush to American bonds whose market yields have doubled at the shorter end.
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The elephant in the room: geopolitics and the ‘Great Reset’ in Sri Lanka
“But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka. July 11, 2022
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Is China headed for a crash?
So, is this the moment of collapse in the Chinese model of development and the end of all that talk about ‘moving towards socialism’ etc? Many Western experts think so.
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Pelosi could spark ‘more serious’ Taiwan Straits crisis; China-U.S. ties would fall off cliff if Washington intended to crash ‘guardrails’
China-U.S. ties would fall off cliff if Washington intended to crash ‘guardrails’.
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Despite the evidence, courts yet to take note of spyware used against Elgar Parishad accused
The evidence of malware use has now come in from multiple studies, but the accused remain in jail and the trial is yet to begin.
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Imran Khan rewrites Pakistan’s political history
Against the odds and powerful rivals pitted against him, former PM Khan’s win in Punjab elections is a victory for democracy and Pakistan’s sovereignty
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Why the U.S. failed to control COVID-19: incompetence, class violence, deception, and lies
The United States (together with its Western allies) always tries to tell China what to do in managing COVID-19 outbreaks, and since the whole city of Shanghai was under lockdown, the U.S. media seems to have even more reasons to criticize China’s anti-virus policy.
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Hong Kong: truth is out
Kenny Coyle exposes the fake news fed to the world by the talking heads of the local CNN or BBC bureaus and beyond.
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‘India after Naxalbari: Unfinished History’
Bernard D’Mello’s India After Naxalbari: Unfinished History is simultaneously a history of India’s political, economic and social development since the British Raj to the present; a historical retracing of the different attempts to build a revolutionary movement in India; and a political intervention into contemporary debates within the Indian left.
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Afghanistan and Xinjiang
I find the best way to understand what happened in Xinjiang is to contrast it with Afghanistan.
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Real debt trap: Sri Lanka owes vast majority to West, not China
Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary “Chinese debt traps” for the nation’s crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program.
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Replacing constitutions in a revolutionary struggle
Can the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka be replaced without recourse to article 82 of the existing Constitution? In other words, can it be replaced extra-legally and extra constitutionally? Yes, it is possible in certain circumstances.
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PM resigns, President flees: It’s all happening in Sri Lanka
In the wake of massive protests in Sri Lanka, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his residence. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced his resignation to pave way for an all-party government.
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India to boost Sakhalin-1 oil output
After Sakhalin-2, Moscow also plans to nationalise Sakhalin-1 oil and gas development project by ousting U.S. and Japanese shareholders. But Moscow will make an exception for India so that OVL which holds 20% stake will remain & continue to work.
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Taiwan and the making of an “Asian” NATO
The United States wants to turn Taiwan into an Asian Ukraine. The goal is to use it as a weapon against a China, a country that has been declared an adversary.
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Biden’s reckless new provocation ratchets up risk of nuclear war with China
Sending U.S. Warships into South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
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A prologue to the Swazi revolution, one year in the making
1 year ago, in June and July, a massive uprising led by Communists in Swaziland threatened to overthrow the last absolute monarchy in Africa. With the help of its imperialist allies, the Swazi monarchy brutally repressed this uprising, but they have only temporarily delayed the inevitable. One year later, we can reflect on the conditions that caused the revolution, its successes and missed opportunities, the role of imperialism in tipping the scales to a comprador bourgeoisie, and what has changed in the year since in Swaziland as revolutionary agitation continues.
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NATO officially adds China to its list of enemies
Leaders of the member countries of the imperialist NATO military alliance concluded their annual summit in Madrid today. This summit was a clear display of NATO’s commitment to continuously fuel the fire of international conflict as the major capitalist powers drag the world back into a Cold War-style period of global confrontation.
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Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
Long seen as means to seek advantage on the pretext of providing mutual benefit, free trade agreements may increasingly become economic weapons in the new Cold War, disrupting earlier globalization.