Analysis

In the following article, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez examines the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which adopted a resolution on persevering with full and rigorous Party self-governance. Starting from Mao Zedong’s 1945 conversation with Huang Yanpei on how

In the following article, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez responds to US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s designation of Confucius Institutes as a threat to national security – the culmination of a years-long campaign that has seen the number of institutes at US universities fall from around 100

In the following article, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez marks the 90th anniversary of the conclusion of the Red Army’s Long March, taking as his starting point Mao Zedong’s description of the march as “a manifesto a propaganda force a seeding-machine”. Carlos traces the road to the Long

In the following article, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez draws on a recent visit to Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, to examine how the city has become at once a centre of frontier technology – home to DeepSeek, Unitree Robotics and Alibaba – and a testing ground

On Saturday 3 October 2026, Friends of Socialist China held its third annual Socialist China Conference at the Cypriot Community Centre in Wood Green, north London, to mark the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. More than 150 people attended, and a remarkable number stayed