I try to make a case that democracy – not our wretched really existing capitalist democracy, but a radical eco-socialist democracy – is still the only hope for people and planet, first I want to interrogate Xi’s claims for his alternative, what he calls “Chinese-style modernization” and “Chinese-style civilization.”
The lessons of the Korean War should not be forgotten. It is a graphic demonstration of the ruthlessness with which US imperialism will pursue its economic and strategic interests with complete disregard for human life and suffering.
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The death of the two workers, which was entirely avoidable, sparked widespread public anger over the exploitative and dangerous conditions in the high-rise construction industry.
Global pandemic heightens danger of another world war
Peter Symonds is a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site
and the national editor of the WSWS in Australia. He writes regularly on political and social developments in Asia, Australia and the South Pacific and has lectured on the history of Trotskyism in Asia and the Chinese revolutions of the 20th century. He gave this report to the
2021 International May Day Online Rally held by the
WSWS
Speech delivered by Peter Symonds to the 2021 International May Day Online Rally
The coronavirus pandemic has not only brought immense social distress to working people around the world, but it has dramatically intensified the danger of a catastrophic world war, driven above all by the determination of American imperialism to arrest its historic decline at any cost.