Should Socialists Claim ‘A Christmas Carol’ as Our Own?
A Christmas Carol is a story of redemption and transformation as wealthy businessman Ebeneezer Scrooge, through the intervention of four ghosts, realises the error of his ways and is turned philanthropist. So, should socialists claim it as their own? In the Christmas season references to Dickens’ classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ become more frequent and it […]
Book Review: In the Camps by Darren Byler
Three hundred camps with more than a million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang are probably the most brutal expressions of the CCP dictatorship in China. In Darren Byler’s new book, In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony, Vera Zhou, Qelbinur, Erbaqyt, Gulzira and others tell their stories from the camps. Byler also underlines the link between […]