Left Review Online May 1, 2021
Kathmandu. Communist Party of USA (CPUSA) has issued an official statement on the occasion of International Workers' Day (May Day) 2021. The Full text of the CPUSA statement reads as: We struggle for the right to be human. To the ruling class, we are units of labor-power endowed...more
Cuba is a country with a long history of struggle against colonialism and imperialism. Cuba is a land of Carlos Manual de Cespedes, who fought to liberate the Cuban Soil. Cuba is also the land of great hero Jose Marti, who envisioned the Cuban independence and sacrificed his...more
US President Joe Biden is scheduled to attend a meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) in the UK in June, and the US will urge its G7 allies to step up pressure on China over the use of so-called forced labor in Xinjiang, a top White House...more
Kaoru Yasui was a professor and doctor of law at Hosei University of Japan and the first director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea. In the 1950s, he conducted positive social activities against atomic and hydrogen bombs, and for this won the International Lenin Peace Prize...more
It is acknowledged that the EU is not a stakeholder in the South China Sea issues nor a regional player for that matter. Yet it claims economic, political and strategic interests in the region and keeps pointing its finger at the territorial disputes from time to time. On...more
There were some major mistakes that the BBC made in its latest TV program Newsnight, including a biased tone and misinformation on the illegal protests led by radical anti-government figures who were wrongfully deemed "pro-democracy activists," a Chinese scholar who recently engaged in an online debate with Hong...more
Approximately 90 percent of the young Chinese participating in the latest survey conducted by the Global Times Research Center believe China should not "look up to the West" anymore, with more people in the past five years even "looking down on the West" due to multiple reasons including...more
Pakistan has offered to provide relief support, including ventilators, to India to help fight the deadly wave of COVID-19, according to Indian media reports. In a statement on Saturday, Islamabad said the two countries can explore possible ways to further co-operation to mitigate the challenges posed by the...more
Chinese population experts predicted that China's annual births may fall below 10 million during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) and suggested that China should loosen its family planning policy as soon as possible, although the central government has not yet released the specific data from the seventh...more
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest trade deal signed by China and 14 other economies in November 2020, is facing challenges as comprehensive China-US competition has taken shape, officials and experts said at a seminar during the 2021 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) on Monday....more
Compañeras and compañeros: The opening of the Eighth Party Congress takes place on a transcendental date in the nation’s history: The 60th anniversary of the proclamation by Comandante en jefe Fidel Castro Ruz of the socialist character of the Revolution, on April 16, 1961, at the funeral farewell...more
Kathmandu. For the bibliophiles of Kathmandu and other people keen to know about the Nepal-China relationship, the eve of this World Book Day, April 23, 2021, is welcomed with a new English book titled "Mend or End" and penned by Chinese journalist Zhou Shengping. Mr. Zhou Shengping, a...more
If there is any change in China's diplomacy in the new era, the answer would be China has switched on equal diplomacy, Zhang Weiwei, director of the China Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai, said in a recent TV show. He further explained that equal diplomacy means China...more
Havana. The 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) concludes today after four days of work in which the socialist course of Cuba was reaffirmed and the model and guidelines for this endeavor were updated. The Central Committee, elected yesterday, will hold its first meeting on...more
US President Joe Biden has invited 40 heads of state to the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22 and 23. This has heated up the global competition over the low-carbon economy. This new competition could even be called "a new global green and low-carbon economy war." As...more