As reported previously, between 25 May and 5 June 2025, an international delegation – organised by the China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE) and Friends of Socialist China – visited Shaanxi, Gansu, and Shanghai to witness China’s ongoing socialist development. Comprising activists from organisations including Friends of Socialist China, the Progressive International, Black Alliance … Continue reading Report: Delegation to China, May-June 2025| Friends of Socialist China
THOSE of us who were born on the ruins of the socialist Eastern Bloc know how purpose-built, industrial “monotowns” are meant to look.Rusting steel mills, cracked and potholed roads, weathered sheets of corrugated metal strewn about. Thick smog and poisoned soil. Drunks passed out on the train platform. Emaciated stray dogs. A lone child skipping down the muddy path of a panel-block neighbourhood silenced by demographic blight.| morningstaronline.co.uk