A mass campaign has delayed moves to liberalise the island's economy in favour of Chinese capitalism. Socialist Review reports on the roots of the campaign and the challenges it faces.
An island then of 6 million people, Taiwan was the last refuge to which the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army and government fled after their defeat in the civil war by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. Today, it is an island state of 24 million that is economically, socially and technically on a par with...
Su Beng is a Marxist historian and veteran Taiwanese independence fighterWith the CSSTA, just as in the past, the KMT government is not keen on public discussions about political decisions. It inherited and preserved the occupying Japanese government’s colonising features, even after democratisation. The historical facts about Taiwan’s development have been suppressed in the official...
Continuing the debate on the role of Leninism, Joseph Choonara argues that the Bolshevik leader's concept of the party remains the model around which socialists should unite.
The fightback against austerity is reshaping the disability movement in Britain.
Dave Sherry's book John MacLean: Red Clydesider has recently been republished by Bookmarks. Here we print an abridged version of the new introduction which looks at the importance of Maclean in the context of the debate about Scottish independence.
"I stand in the Gorbals and before the world as a Bolshevik, alias a Communist, alias a revolutionary, alias a Marxist. My symbol is the red flag, and I shall always keep it flying high." John Maclean's Election Address, 1922
The idea that humans are naturally greedy and selfish and that “you can’t change human nature” is often used to explain the atrocities that happen in the world. From imperialist wars, to racism, to mass poverty the barbarism in society can be seen everywhere. But we also see the huge potential for humans to overcome...
George Osborne’s budget last month was better received than his disastrous “omnishambles” budget of two years ago. That was attacked from the left for cutting the top rate of tax, from the right for freezing pensioners tax allowances (“Osborne picks the pockets of pensioners” screamed the Daily Mail) and widely mocked for the “pasty tax”...
Twenty years ago Bosnia was at the bloody heart of the Yugoslav civil wars. The war ended when the country was divided along “ethnic” lines by the Dayton Accord, leaving two eparate entities and one mixed “district”. Bosnia has since become a plaything of the West, with the US and the EU acting with the...
Russia's annexation of Crimea, and the rising tensions between east and west, marks an era of heightened competition between rival imperial powers, argues Rob Ferguson.
For several centuries the history of Ukraine has been one of invasion, occupation and domination by successive local foreign powers, and resistance to them.
