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Dilma Rousseff – Brazil’s place is not with the US but independent and alongside China

1st September 2021 shoreditchadmin2 0

Forces in Latin America seeking national independence and socialism are increasingly interacting with China. Illustrating this was a recent speech by Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s former president, organised by Brazil’s School of Latin American and Global Studies. Rousseff spoke about China’s economic development and its influence in Latin America – and criticised the harmful role of Brazil and Latin America’s submission to the United States.

Faced with US sanctions on Cuba China steps up its aid – socialist internationalism in practice

31st August 2021 shoreditchadmin2 0

This is an example of socialist internationalism, made possible by the leadership of the CPC and the powerful economic development of the Chinese economy.
It also makes all adherents of the “neither Washington nor Beijing” position look more than a little ridiculous.

US smearing of China’s efforts against COVID-19 only hurts the entire world

27th August 2021 shoreditchadmin2 0

The again rapidly worsening situation in the US with COVID-19 was met not with an attempt to deal with the real dangers but with a clearly centrally organized campaign to attempt to disguise by every means possible the real situation from the US people—and above all to conceal China’s success.

Labour should be leading the way on the climate

27th August 2021 shoreditchadmin2 0

Labour Leader Keir Starmer has recently staked out a distinct position from the Tory government on climate change, that falls well short of what is needed. Labour proposes that £30 billion is put into a “green recovery” – well below the £85 billion investment proposed by the TUC. There needs to be an unremitting campaign to pressure the government, but Starmer is reluctant to challenge it.

NATO’s twenty year debacle in Afghanistan

6th August 2021 shoreditchadmin2 0

The general condition of Afghanistan after 20 years of NATO intervention is that half the population are in humanitarian need and nearly one in two children will face acute malnutrition in 2021 – UN.

COVID + Capitalism = Death

29th July 2021 shoreditchadmin2 0

Life expectancy for people in the US dropped by one-and-a-half years from 2019 to 2020 and for Black and Latino people by three years. More than 3.3 million people in the US died in 2020, the most ever in US history.