En Passant

Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It has the strength to overthrow the corrupt and bankrupt butchers in Beijing and their sons and daughters. Having done that the Chinese working class will be forced to take the revolution beyond bourgeois political demands and threaten capitalism in China itself. Then and only then can we talk about genuine socialism, the self-emancipation of the working class through its own democratic organs to organise production to satisfy human need, not to make a profit.

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Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It has the strength to overthrow the corrupt and bankrupt butchers in Beijing.

Having done that the Chinese working class will be forced to take the revolution beyond bourgeois political demands and threaten capitalism in China itself. Then and only then can we talk about genuine socialism, the self-emancipation of the working class through its own democratic organs of societal control.

Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It has the strength to overthrow the corrupt and bankrupt butchers in Beijing.

The triumph of mass murderer Mao Zedong was not the victory of socialism; it was the victory of a de-classed peasant army headed by intellectuals and others parading  as ‘communists’ over warlord capitalism. Mao proceeded to build capitalism in the backward country, using Stalinism in Russia as his model. This saw the state concentrate capital in its own hands, forcing […]

John has an article in the August edition of Socialist Alternative about Australian hypocrisy over the Rio Tinto arrests. It is based on Rudd gives China a Stern talking to on this site.

Kevin Rudd is the popinjay of international relations. He bestrides the world like a coxcomb. Will he investigate foreign bribery allegations, a crime in Australia?

1989 showed that China’s workers, peasants and students have the power to challenge the country’s rulers and the potential to overthrow them.

Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It can overthrow the butchers in Beijing.

“I didn’t know that taking holiday snaps was illegal in some countries.”  That’s the snappy line from smartraveller in Foreign Affairs. I checked the site and I couldn’t find any warnings against taking photos in Australia – Pine Gap to be precise. Rudd Labor recently amended the law to make sure that people who took photos of Pine Gap were jailed […]