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Tag: Class Analysis

Interviews

The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China. Interview with Yige Dong – 18 November 2025

Dramatically falling birthrates and a skyrocketing number of divorces as the number of marriages collapsing increases all point toward the erosion of the capitalist family

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Videos Webinars

Brian Hioe on Campism and the Left in Taiwan – 21 September 2025

00:01:00 Introduction00:11:00 Taiwan’s history and society00:27:58 Q&A00:48:30 International left views on Taiwan and China00:54:20 Q&A01:07:50 The left in Taiwan01:15:45 Q&A01:48:40 Conclusion01:55:13 End

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The Gig Economy Era [in China]: The Saturation of the Employment Reservoir, New Regulations Incite Controversy – 17 September 2025

This is Part 3 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles

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Articles

Young Workers [in China]: “Swallowing our Wretched Shares” – 29 August 2025

This is Part 2 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles

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The Minority Voters Moving Right. Interview with Daniel Martinez HoSang – 18 August 2025

A major topic following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that’s scrambled

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Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: 2024 Review of Labor Issues in China – 10 August 2025

Preface by Chuang 闯 Since 2020, an anonymous group of netizens has been coming together to prepare an annual review of labor struggles (or, in

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Revolutionary Roads and Marxism Today. Interview with Kevin Anderson – 9 July 2025

What does the work of late Marx tell us about anti-colonial and indigenous struggles’ role in overcoming capitalism? What are the revolutionary trajectories of our

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Interviews

The Left’s Dangerous Illusion That Getting “Tough” on Migration Can Win Back Support. Interview with Lea Ypi – 18 June 2025

Il Manifesto: What do you think of the migrant detention centres built by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni government in Albania? Lea Ypi: I think it is

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Articles

What Everyone on the Left Should Know About Taiwan (At the Minimum), by Ralf Ruckus – 17 June 2025

The political left is (potentially) a force to counter right-wing politics, resist nationalist tendencies, and help coordinate social movements that fight against capitalism. But recently,

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Slovakia’s Toxic Bargain: How Red-Brown Politics Exploit Masculinity, by Karmína – 1 May 2025

The political shift to the right—towards authoritarianism, nationalism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people—is global and dates back to the 2008 crisis. Its main political

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Class analysis and Russian imperialism: A response to Ilya Matveev, by Dmitry Pozhidaev – 2 October 2024

In his interview, “Political imperialism, Putin’s Russia, and the need for a global left alternative,” Ilya Matveev suggests that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was motivated

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“The Roots of the Reactionary Bloc Lie in the Supposed ‘Democratic’ Camp”: Interview with the Slovak Collective Karmína – 18 October 2023

Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a

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Articles

Where Does Caste Fit in A Global History of Racial Capitalism?, by Sheetal Chhabria – 13 July 2023

This paper asks how whether and how caste fits into a global history of racial capitalism? The misidentification of caste as custom has long misled

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Articles

The Tragedy of the Ukrainian Working Class, by Karmína – 11 July 2022

At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or

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Articles Book reviews

The PMC Meets the Tucker Carlson Left, by Comrade Motopu – 21 February 2021

Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Catherine Liu on the political spectrumThis essay

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Book reviews

Capitalism Is Not a “Free Labor” System, by Yueran Zhang – 10 January 2021

Apologists for capitalism like to point to its historically progressive aspects, like its supposed use of “free labor” rather than older forms of labor compulsion.

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