The first international issue of Wenhua Zongheng is a landmark event for the global left

By John Ross Wenhua Zongheng is a newly launched international publication bringing together articles originally produced in the mainland China magazine of the same name in Chinese. It is jointly published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, by Wenhua Zongheng, the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and Dongsheng – which produces the newsletter News on China.…

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Consequences and lessons of the new U.S. bank collapses

This article was originally published in Chinese at Guancha.cn. The collapse in rapid succession of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the second and third largest bank collapses in U.S. history, fully confirms the extremely damaging character of the U.S. stimulus policies which were launched to attempt to deal with the economic consequences of the…

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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…

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