Taiwan is not the only potential flashpoint. China is the world’s leading exporting nation, and 95 percent of Chinese trade is seaborne, which makes control over the South China Sea of vital strategic importance to both the US and China.
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Will global inflation subside?
The recovery from the COVID slump of 2020 has petered out. The world economy is teetering on a slump according to the latest data by JP Morgan economists.
Brazil: A “de-mediated” election
This article, originally appearing in the Uruguayan newspaper Brecha and reprinted by Correspondencia de Prensa, provides a preview of what is likely to be a nasty and hard-fought campaign.
Hard days on the picket lines, but baristas pour into unions
When one looks at the American labor movement today, one immediately sees an important contradiction. There are very few strikes, yet a considerable number of young people, most prominently at Starbucks, are organizing into unions.
Britain’s summer of industrial discontent
British workers have shown us that solidarity, strikes and class struggle are back on the agenda in the developed capitalist world. Even where unions are relatively weak and their parliamentary organizations hopelessly bankrupt, the working class still hold immense power.
More debt won’t solve Sri Lanka’s debt crisis
The causes of the crisis are clear. Sri Lanka’s economy is unstable and prone to global shocks, with its high dependence upon international loans, and focus on foreign currency-generating export industries.
Philippines: Activist, former VP bet Walden Bello arrested for cyberlibel
On Monday, Bello was taken to the Quezon City Police Station 8 but was transferred to Camp Karingal on the instructions of Police Brig. Gen. Remus Medina, district director.
Will support for abortion rights help the Democrats in November?
Today, liberals are hoping that the shocks of overturning of Roe, the revelations from the January 6 commission, and the GOP’s nominations of some truly awful candidates might provide some margin for hope that the Democrats won’t suffer the expected drubbing.
Crossing the US-Mexico border is deadlier than ever for migrants – here’s why
The June 2022 deaths of 53 people, victims of heat stroke, in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, show the dangers of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization.
Calling a recession and blaming it on interest rates
Real GDP contracted in the second quarter of this year by a 0.9% annualised rate (or by 0.2% quarter over quarter). That meant the US economy had contracted for two successive quarters, and so ‘technically’ (by that definition) was in a recession.
Inside the Russian resistance against Putin’s war
Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviews Sasha, an activist in Feminist Anti-War Resistance about the war, its impact on Russian society in general and women in particular, and the debates among feminists about how to oppose imperialism.
An important debate on revolutionary strategy
There is a great deal of talk about the need for debate and discussion on the left. However, very little of it ever actually takes place. This is why the July 27 Haymarket Books online debate on “The Relevance of the Russian Revolution Today” was so important.
Texas abortion ban turned one woman’s pregnancy into a “dystopian nightmare”
“Anti-abortion zealots should be forced to read this…” asserted one journalist. “They are responsible for her suffering.”
The new progressive wave in Latin America: Between moderation and an intolerant right
The radical Uruguayan journalist and chronicler of Latin American social movements Raúl Zibechi is much less enthusiastic about new progressive governments. In the article below, Zibechi points out the real constraints, both external and self-imposed, that these governments will face.
‘Blatantly unconstitutional’ South Carolina bill would criminalize sharing abortion info online
Earlier this month, a coalition of reproductive rights groups filed a lawsuit in state court challenging the legislation, which Center for Reproductive Rights president and CEO Nancy Northup said is causing “mayhem at an unimaginable scale.”
