China – end of the boom?
rs21 member Charlie Hore explores how a changing demographic, environmental issues and inherent instability pose serious threats to the growth of the Chinese economy.
Review | The Communist Road to Capitalism and The Left in China
Charlie Hore reviews two important books on struggle from below in China.
Understanding China after Mao
Charlie Hore reviews China after Mao, finding a work with large omissions which fails to explain why China has changed so much since the 1970s.
Back on the streets in China
After a weekend of widespread protests across China, rs21 member Charlie Hore explains the movement’s significance and looks at what might come next.
‘It is always the tyrant that should be brought to trial’: repression and resistance in Hong Kong
Charlie Hore considers the onslaught of attacks on democracy in Hong Kong, and reflects on what the Kill the Bill movement can learn from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy resistance.
Obituary: Pete Gillard, 1949–2020
Pete Gillard, who died on 21 April 2020, was a life-long revolutionary socialist, campaigner and trade union activist. Obituary by Charlie Hore.
Video: The decline of America and the rise of China
Charlie Hore, author of The Road to Tiananmen Square and numerous articles about China, talks about the shifting powers in imperialism in the past decades.
Revolt in Hong Kong
Charlie Hore provides some background on the magnificent protest movement in Hong Kong, and discusses the strategic dilemmas ahead.
Beyond 4 June
Last week we published reflections on the 30th anniversary of China’s ‘May of the Masses’. Here Charlie Hore reflects on the massacre of 4 June and its aftermath.
May of the Masses: the Tiananmen Square movement 30 years on
While 4 June marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the inspirational movement that went before also deserves to be remembered, writes Charlie Hore.
Building the Left in the face of Brexit
Charlie Hore responds to Neil Davidson’s discussion of the Brexit crisis and offers an alternative analysis of the Leave vote.
Obituary: Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)
Charlie Hore looks back at the work of a pioneering and idiosyncratic writer.
Left Unity and the People’s Assembly
Charlie Hore writes on the emergence of new ‘reformist’ left groups.
China and the Iran war – a provisional assessment
China is weathering the war and turning crisis into influence
Review | Other Rivers and Private Revolutions
Two new books highlight the huge changes that have taken place in Chinese society in the last three decades.
Review | Overreach: how China derailed its peaceful rise
Overreach is written from within the US establishment and provides insight into why the US sees China as a mortal enemy
Chinese imperialism: no better than the US?
China’s huge international investments are about imperialist power, not helping the Global South develop or opening up space for progressive movements.
Video | China and the US in the 21st century
The rapid growth of the Chinese economy over the last quarter of a century and the growing tensions with the US
Working Class Movement Library – Stand up to transphobia
Solidarity against transphobia must be a principle of the movement.
Alchemy and imperial delusion: the ideological spell of nuclear power. Part 2
The uncounted costs of nuclear power
Review | The New Cold War
The new imperialist world order is characterised by increasing military tensions between the world’s major powers, but also by economic competition.
#IWD2023: women fight across the globe
On International Women’s Day, rs21 members share 13 inspiring examples of women fighting for liberation and against capitalism and state repression.
Renters reform – much more is needed
Government proposals to overhaul private renting – not good enough.
Review | China in One Village
Charlie Hore reviews China in One Village by Liang Hong, finding an informative and personal account of the contradictions of rapid urbanisation and societal change in China. Liang Hong, China in One Village, translated by Emily Goedde, (London: Verso, 2021) 316 pp, £16.99 China’s meteoric rise to becoming the world’s economic powerhouse was powered by […]
The Trumpian afterlife
The incoming Biden administration may repeal a few of Trump’s ugliest policies, but the revitalised far right is not going away.
Review: Hong Kong in revolt and The Art of Rebellion
Two new books provide valuable insight into the huge and defiant revolt in Hong Kong that erupted in 2019.
Memories of Pete Gillard (1949-2020)
Pete Gillard, who died on 21 April 2020, was a life-long revolutionary socialist, campaigner and trade union activist. This page collects people’s memories and photos of Pete and allows you to add your own. You can read Charlie Hore’s obituary here. You can watch the video of the online memorial event: Memories and pictures Add […]
‘System change not climate change’ – Global Climate Strike
Friday 20 September saw the biggest climate protests in world history. Reports from the UK and around the world.