as china’s grip tightens, global institutions gasp

If these ideas become not just prevailing norms but also actual operating principles for the HRC, victims of state-sponsored abuses worldwide—including in Myanmar, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—will face almost impossible odds in holding abusive governments accountable. ..

the socialist party /militant and the working class

This, to Ted Grant, was a two-stage world revolution, in which the Stalinists (but not exclusively the Stalinists: other, non-Communist, forces had also turned Burma and Syria and Ethiopia, etc, into “deformed workers states”) were the protagonists in creating an immensely progressive form of..

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