‘Fighting for Anti Racist Workplaces’ conference Saturday 4 February
‘Fighting for Anti Racist Workplaces’ conference
Saturday 4 February.
SOAS university, Thornhaugh St, London WC1H 0XG
and online
Articles by shoreditchadmin2
The West’s selective testing of travellers from China is politically motivated
The West is once again using the COVID-19 pandemic to whip up international hostility towards China, instead of approaching it as a common threat to humanity. This approach has dangerous consequences.
Three year of fighting Covid – China has achieved a miracle compared to the West
The West’s policies when confronted with Covid, compared to China’s, have been both a health and an economic disaster. There have been many demonstrations of the superiority of China’s socialist system compared to Western capitalism. The different policies to deal with Covid are the latest and one of the clearest.
Why China’s economy will far outperform the West in 2023
The facts show clearly that in 2023, the issue is by how much China’s economy it will accelerate, whereas in the US by how much its economy will slow down. After three pandemic years during which China already outgrew the West by a huge margin, this is an extremely striking situation.
Step up support for the strike wave
The unions’ fight back against the attacks on living standards, have extended into this year.
Labour movement and other progressive activists should step up their activity in support of this growing anti-austerity struggle.
The price of gas and the costs of war
The UK energy consumer price inflation rate is more than double the OECD average. The Tory government is blaming the Ukraine war, when the dizzyingly high level of energy price inflation is down to UK government policy choices. Labour should back the TUC’s proposals as they would help tackle this energy cost crisis.