The following lecture was delivered by Peter Symonds, national WSWS editor for the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), at the SEP (US) 2025 International Summer School, held August 2-9, 2025. This ...

MSRL copy Purchased from the C. Michael Gooden Endowment. How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949-1976), ...

58. The Soviet bureaucracy attacked the Theory of Permanent Revolution and revived the Menshevik two-stage theory of revolution in countries with a belated capitalist development. In China in ...

Given the flood of books on China that has poured forth in recent years, one might think the rest of the world would have figured out that provocative country by now. But much of China’s historical ...

China’s people, as is sometimes said, are “trying to breathe,” hoping to find some freedom from central control. Four female college students in the central city of Zhengzhou tried to breathe in June ...

Harry Wu, executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation, is a native of Shanghai and an activist for human rights in China. He spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps between 1960 and 1979 and ...

China is launching a massive military exercise in the Taiwan Strait as tensions with its regional neighbors escalate.