Posts by John Ross
Tory leadership contest – vicious fighting over how to “Americanise” Britain
Boris Johnson’s personal “peculiarities” and scandals – fined by the police for breaking Covid restrictions in “partygate”, misrepresentations even to his closest government colleagues and members of Parliament etc. – were the immediate cause precipitating his removal from office. But behind Johnson’s peculiarities far more powerful economic, social and political forces were involved in his…
Read MoreGlobal economic destabilisation is “Made in the U.S.” not “Made in Ukraine”
The cost of living crisis, due to rapidly rising inflation, is hitting the people of numerous countries. The US is attempting to claim the cause of this is the war in Ukraine. This is a straightforward lie as is easily demonstrated. The huge inflationary wave started, and mainly developed, long before the war started. The…
Read MoreUS calls for China to adopt policy to kill millions of Chinese by Covid in name of “human rights”
Few issues show more clearly the real difference between the pro-human oriented policies of socialism in China and pro-capital oriented policies of the U.S. than the two countries response to the Covid pandemic. The U.S., while verbally proclaiming support for “human rights”, is actively campaigning for a policy that would already have led to 3.6…
Read MoreChina’s socialist economy will deal with the global inflationary wave launched by US economic policy
China’s 8.1% GDP increase in 2021, following on from 2.2% in 2020, will exceed that of any other major economy. However, as is well known, China’s year-on-year growth rate fell to 4.9% in 2021’s third quarter and 4.0% in the 4th quarter, showing downward economic pressure. Furthermore, China’s economy was aided in 2021 by an…
Read MoreWitnessing at first hand the USSR’s disintegration made me intensely understand the scale of China’s success
In December 1991 the USSR collapsed – a geopolitical catastrophe with deep consequences for the people of the Soviet Union, for China and for the world. I was in Moscow when this announcement was made – for reasons which were connected not only with the Soviet Union and the West but also with China, as…
Read MoreBiden’s “democracy summit” – how Marx showed the fake character of capitalism’s concept of “human rights”
The absurdly misnamed “Democracy Summit”, hosted by Biden on 9-10 December, the real “non-democratic” character of which is analysed below, is widely and rightly understood in China as part of the fact that the US simultaneously launched not only an international geopolitical attack on China but also an ideological one. China has nothing whatever to…
Read MoreThe international and historical significance of the resolution on the history of the CPC
The following article was originally published in …
Read MoreReduction in carbon emissions must be carried out as quickly as possible – and above all by advanced economies
An earlier article, “COP26: Why Advanced Countries Must Proportionately Make By Far the Biggest Cuts in Carbon Emissions – Factual Briefing,” analysed the data produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ahead of the COP conference – in its report: “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”. The conclusion which follows from the…
Read MoreCOP26: why advanced countries must proportionately make by far the biggest cuts in carbon emissions – factual briefing
The COP26 conference on climate change is discussing an issue which will profoundly affect every person on our planet. Climate change, together with nuclear war, is one of the two issues which can overturn the present basis of human civilisation. Because of the extreme seriousness of this issue, the COP26 conference should therefore be an…
Read MoreWhy Common Prosperity is Good for Socialism and for China’s Economy
President Xi Jinping’s introduction of the term “Common Prosperity” has led to an important discussion both inside and outside China. The aim of Common Prosperity is, of course, not at all limited to purely economic objectives. Its goals are far wider, including to ensure the rise in the living standards of the Chinese people, to…
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