Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
SINCE the outbreak of Covid-19, criticism of China, by both Western political elites in the US and Britain, has seen an upsurge.
This intensification of rhetoric is reflected in the simplistic cold war hyperbole spun in the right-wing Western media.
Here a childish dualistic script is served up where the forces of good do battle against evil.
BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE argues that the BRI represents a choice between treating humans as commodities or as equals — an essential project when, aside from China’s efforts, hundreds of millions worldwide are trapped in poverty
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ


