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This event will explore how these achievements are a product of China’s social, political and economic system: socialism.

In spite of several years of intense propaganda and misinformation about China in the media, large numbers of young people in the West are going through “a very Chinese time in their lives”, not least because they are seeing China’s extraordinary achievements in poverty reduction, technological innovation, ecological protection, infrastructure development and more.

This webinar, organised by Friends of Socialist China, will explore how these achievements are a product of China’s social, political and economic system: socialism. The speakers will argue that China’s progress would simply not have been possible within a framework of capitalist rule, and that the country’s experience provides a powerful example of the superiority of socialism in terms of delivering for the people and for the planet.

Confirmed speakers

- George Galloway (Former MP, leader of Workers Party of Britain / @GeorgeGallowayOfficial )
- Li Jingjing (Journalist and political commentator, CGTN / @Jingjing_Li )
- Chen Weihua (Former China Daily EU bureau chief)
- Ben Norton (Editor, Geopolitical Economy Report / @GeopoliticalEconomyReport )
- Danny Haiphong (Geopolitical analyst and journalist / @DannyHaiphongYT )
- Tings Chak (Asia co-coordinator, Tricontinental Institute / @Tricontinental )
- Keith Bennett (Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China)
- Ileana Chan (Host of the Global Majority for Peace podcast / @EmpireWatch )
- Qiao Collective (Diaspora Chinese media collective)
- Chair: Carlos Martinez (Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China / @InventTheFuture )
Socialist Chinamaxxing: How China’s achievements are a product of its socialist system
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Full recording of an interview and discussion conducted by Jingjing Yang of China Media Group (CMG) with our co-editor Keith Bennett on March 5 regarding issues raised by China’s then ongoing two annual parliamentary sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Reviewing the achievements of Chinese-style modernisation over the last year, Keith notes that we are living through a dramatic period of history, one in which events move very fast and we are experiencing, as Xi Jinping puts it, changes unseen in a century. 

China’s growth is now expressed above all in qualitative terms, with advances in AI, robotics and other fields all contributing to what many people in the world, young people in particular, are describing as “a very Chinese moment” in their lives. 

The really important figures in China’s development in the present period are those such as in the growth of renewable energy or in the reduction and elimination of extreme poverty. And China’s work to prevent climate catastrophe benefits people throughout the world. The main themes of the incoming 15th Five Year Plan provide further evidence that what is good for China is also good for humanity as a whole. The emphasis placed on new high quality productive forces, on robotics, EVs and AI, provide new opportunities particularly for those other developing countries that wish to learn from the Chinese example. 

However, all this is unfolding against a capricious and dangerous international environment, as shown not only by the egregious use of tariffs as a weapon of economic warfare but even in the kidnapping and murder of leaders of sovereign states. China’s policies are a factor for stability in this situation but, contrary to what some people seem to imagine, China does not possess a magic wand capable of miraculously solving all problems on the global stage. China’s Global Security Initiative has been welcomed by the overwhelming majority of countries in the world as it is based on shared interests and common benefit. The countries standing against it are few in number, but unfortunately they remain powerful.

Extracts from the interview were shown on CCTV coverage during the Two Sessions.
China’s new high quality growth benefits humanity as a whole
YouTube Video UCg830gPCU4oA9N_D25bFD4Q_SrX7fFdIe08
Presentation by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez to a Red Books Day hybrid event in London, organised by Manifesto Press.

Carlos discusses the enduring relevance of Michael Parenti's "Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism".
Blackshirts and Reds: Why Michael Parenti matters more than ever
YouTube Video UCg830gPCU4oA9N_D25bFD4Q_4jNs2Acvmdo
A discussion of Jenny Clegg's Storming the Heavens: Peasants and Revolution in China, 1925-1949.

This event will feature a discussion of the book’s themes with the author along with China specialists and leading Marxist scholars, followed by a Q&A session and book signing.

‘A major accomplishment … (combining) detailed historical analysis..with a keen sense of theory….’ David Laibman, Editor Emeritus, Science & Society

‘Extremely useful in all capitalist countries, especially those in the South’ Cheng Enfu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

‘An essential guide to negotiating the complex terrain of the agrarian class structure in pre-revolutionary China’ Utsa Patnaik, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

‘A masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution’, Ben Chacko, editor, Morning Star

Storming the Heavens sets peasant mass struggle centre-stage in the Chinese revolution: the peasant movement changed China and China changed the world. Revolutions, said Marx, project themselves towards the future: nothing could be more true than the case of China today with the special characteristics of its ongoing socialist modernisation rooted in this history of societal transformation.


Speakers

- Jenny Clegg, author and researcher
- Vijay Prashad, author and historian
- Cheng Enfu, President of the World Association for Political Economy
- Michael Dutton, Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London
- John Foster, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- Chair: Radhika Desai, Professor, University of Manitoba

Organisers

- Friends of Socialist China
- Manifesto Press
- Morning Star
- International Manifesto Group
Book launch: Jenny Clegg - Storming the Heavens
YouTube Video UCg830gPCU4oA9N_D25bFD4Q_9PM_fz3Nm7c
On Sunday October 19 the Free Mumia Abu Jamal Campaign UK organised a discussion meeting on the theme of China and the international anti-imperialist struggle at International House in Brixton, south London.

Chaired by Sarah Mudd and introduced by Wilf Dixon of the Free Mumia Campaign, the meeting heard three presentations expressing differing views within a common overall anti-imperialist perspective:

- Our Co-editor Keith Bennett spoke on ‘China and the global struggle against imperialism today’;
- Cecil Gutzmore, Chair of the Free Mumia Campaign and veteran revolutionary Pan-Africanist, spoke on ‘Judeo-Christendom’s racism and the global anti-China movement’; and
- Andy Higginbottom, former Assistant Professor at Kingston University, London, and a long-standing anti-imperialist activist and Marxist scholar, spoke on ‘Neo-colonialism still matters – Militarisation and Imperial Grand Strategy (US v. China)’.

This video contains the three speeches.
Free Mumia Campaign discusses China and the international anti-imperialist struggle
YouTube Video UCg830gPCU4oA9N_D25bFD4Q_v6SCWB3-2_U
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Solidarity with Palestine

Solidarity with Palestine

An infographic on China’s longstanding support with the Palestinian struggle for national liberation.

Posted on May 13, 2021June 3, 2021Categories Infographics, Internationalism5 Comments on Solidarity with Palestine

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