• China is not a rich country, it’s poor!

    If you were asked to compare the average Chinese income with the average income in the USA, what would you say? 80%? 60%? 30%? If we judged by the establishment propaganda campaign, Chinese income would be fast approaching that of the USA, Australia or the other rich countries. Bear in mind that average income includes… →

  • Why China Cannot Win a Trade War Against the USA

    “China has few if any companies that supply technology inputs to U.S. companies that America either doesn’t produce or cannot buy from friendly nations.”i “Analysts reckon China is more than 10 years behind in designing high-end logic chips of the kind used in Huawei’s switches and routers”ii Speaking at a rally in Florida in May… →

  • Venezuela and the World – 3

    VENEZUELA and the World 3. Some little reflections – Feb 4, 2019: It is necessary to understand that the conflict in Venezuela manifests a war between classes, not between factions of the one class, as in elections in “normal” bourgeois democracies.. The victor will not be inclined to give the other side a chance to… →

  • Venezuela and the World – 2.

    Venezuela and the World – 2 – short reflection Judging compromises with the opposing class, or retreat before it in a battle situation, requires a close to precise understanding of the balance of forces; the capacities from all angles of the opposing sides, even as they change from moment to moment. Even those participating in… →

  • Venezuela and the World

    By Max Lane The coup attempt by the United States, assisted by the EU and supported by Australia, against the legitimate government of Venezuela, headed by the elected President, Maduro, is ongoing. This colonialist coup threatens the social gains made by the Bolivarian process since the election of the late President Hugo Chavez, already partially… →

  • JACOBIN article on Indonesia: THE COUNTRY WITH NO LEFT by Max Lane

    JACOBIN article on Indonesia: THE COUNTRY WITH NO LEFT →

  • Reflections from afar on the escalation of ideological warfare in the United States.

    (June 20, 2018) The United States, under Trump and likely for the foreseeable future, is on a dominate-the-world-totally (and space) trajectory. This is a consequence of the economic situation where imperialism (as the highest stage of capitalism) is now confronted with intensifying contradictions, whose symptoms are the various crisis on the imperial periphery of Southern Europe and… →

  • Indonesia: 20 Years After Suharto, Is Something Starting Anew?

    by Max Lane, written May 24, 2018 May 21, 2018 marked the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the dictator Suharto, who ruled Indonesia from 1965 until 1998 — 33 years; a very long time. This 33 years constituted a massive percentage of the time Indonesia has existed. The leadership of the national revolution proclaimed independence… →