Strategic autonomy or Stockholm syndrome: whither Europe? CARLOS MARTINEZ condemns Europe’s failure to develop genuine autonomy from US hegemony, as leaders like Starmer and Macron cling to a declining imperial order rather than building good relations with the emerging powers
Features | Saturday 07th Sep 2024 China’s remarkable transformation marks 75 years of socialist progress
Friday 28th Jun 2024 EU tariffs on China: a script written in Washington Brussels is following the US’s lead in slapping punitive duties on China’s electric vehicles, sabotaging Europe’s climate goals and economic interests to appease Biden’s anti-Beijing crusade, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Friday 29th Mar 2024 Smoke and mirrors instead of truth Cyberattack allegations against China are nothing but another example of new cold war hysteria, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Saturday 20th Jan 2024 Lenin walks around the world CARLOS MARTINEZ examines the thought of the great revolutionary leader and the globalisation of Marxism
Thursday 15th Jun 2023 Britain seems doomed to join the new Washington Consensus In a painful display of sycophancy, the PM committed Britain to the US’s twisted worldview, sacrificing our economy, diplomatic autonomy, and potentially our lives in a war against the East, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Saturday 27th May 2023 The G7, economic coercion and the art of projection The rich nations of the group of seven are intent on maintaining their collective interest as world powers at the expense of the global South. Pretending otherwise doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Friday 18th Nov 2022 China is building a truly ecological civilisation While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and solar energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ
Monday 24th Jan 2022 Zero Covid: China silences the critics Despite the effectiveness of China’s tactics in fighting Covid-19, Western outlets still find ways to decry it as ‘authoritarian’ and ‘unsustainable’ — instead they should be saluting its remarkable success, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Saturday 04th Dec 2021 Adelante! China plays a crucial role supporting progress and sovereignty in Latin America by Carlos Martinez
Friday 05th Nov 2021 Blaming China for the climate crisis is shameful nonsense The West has followed a Cold War agenda of demonising the world’s most populous country, when in fact it is China that emits less per-person than the US and many of its other critics, while leading the way in renewable energy, reforestation and electric vehicles, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Tuesday 19th Oct 2021 Progressives around the world oppose the propaganda war against China CARLOS MARTINEZ reports from a webinar exploring the ‘new cold war’ on China and its basis in racism, emotional narratives and the military-industrial complex
