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Capitalism with Chinese characteristics

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Ben Lewis wonders why some still consider China a model for socialist development If ever there was a story that pithily summarises China’s transition from a ‘bloc of the four classes’ (National Liberation Army, national bourgeoisie, peasantry and workers) under Mao Zedong to a Stalinist sweatshop ‘big player’ in the global imperialist world ...

Liberal interventionism after the Burmese cyclone would spell another disaster

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by James Turley of Communist Students Crocodile tears and democracy Nature has been cruel to south-east Asia recently. The Union of Myanmar (formerly, and still popularly known as Burma) has been rocked by a devastating cyclone, the eighth most severe in recorded history; and Szechuan province in China, saw a powerful earthquake kill upwards of 12,000 people. While ...