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Trump Defends the Dollar in Venezuela and Democrats Are Glad

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 28, 2026 The US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped Nicólas Maduro to defend the dominance of the US dollar. Venezuela had been selling oil to China in China’s currency, the yuan. Trump just sold $500 million worth of the oil the Navy has stolen from Venezuela at sea. Magnanimous guy that he[…]

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What Does Venezuela Have to Do With Taiwan?

by Biljana Vankovska, produced by Globetrotter, January 12, 2026 The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that feeds on permanent war. Orders are flowing, profits are booming, and blood has once again become a growth sector. For any normal society, pirates belong in adventure films, not[…]

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Is China’s Foreign Policy ‘Good Enough’?

by Danny Haiphong, published on Workers World, December 17, 2025 The question in the title may seem hyperbolic, but it is one that comes up in one form or another across the U.S. political spectrum. U.S. elites slam China’s foreign policy as riddled with “debt traps” for poorer countries in the Global South. The Western corporate media asserts that China[…]

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China Changes Everything: A Book Review

by Steve Lalla, published on the Orinoco Tribune, December 22, 2025 A new book edited by Kyle Ferrana, China Changes Everything, bills itself as an anthology by “social justice activists, journalists, and commentators” and brings together chapters about the People’s Republic of China written by prominent left-wing analysts, including Arnold August, Roger Harris, Radhika Desai, Carlos Martinez, Gerald Horne, Lee[…]

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U.S. expands military encirclement of China across the Pacific

by Gary Wilson, published on The Struggle/La Lucha, December 16, 2025 At a Pentagon meeting on Dec. 10, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his counterparts from Australia and Britain pledged to move “full steam ahead” with AUKUS, a trilateral military pact through which the United States is turning Australia into a forward operating base and nuclear-submarine hub for[…]

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The Buzz of Beijing: Anti-Fascist Resistance Then and Now

by Dee Knight, Shanghai, September 4, 2025 *Featured Image:  International delegates to a commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Chinese Victory Against Fascism, in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province in SW China. Dee Knight is on the right. Photo by Judy Bello Beijing buzzed with excitement last weekend as leaders of friendly countries poured into Beijing from around the[…]

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China Delegation Report Back

by Syd Locke and Jessica Ryan, September 18, 2025 After spending three weeks traveling to many parts of China with DSA members and other leftists, we came away with invaluable first-hand experience of China’s transformation, deepened our historical knowledge of China and, most importantly, came away with a keen awareness of our responsibilities as socialists, as internationalists, to build relationships[…]

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China is a Force for Peace and Progress, That’s Why the World Needs China

by Carlos Martinez, published on Friends of Socialist China,  June 27, 2025 Friends of Socialist China was among the organisers of a hybrid event in Portland, Oregon (US), held on 22 June 2025, discussing Kyle Ferrana’s important book Why the World Needs China. In his speech (delivered via Zoom), Carlos Martinez endorsed the central thesis of the book, arguing that[…]

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Book Signing on ‘Why the World Needs China’

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, June 27, 2025 Portland, Oregon A book signing on June 22 in Portland, Oregon, featured Kyle Ferrana, author of “Why the World Needs China,” Dee Knight, author of “Befriending China,” and Alder, who promoted Ferrana’s book at her Communist Party USA book club. The event took place in person and online. Ferrana read[…]

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