Can ‘Future Industries’ Lead China’s Economy Out of Crisis?
2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the ‘Two Sessions’ (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, the 15th Five-Year Plan was formally ‘passed’. The CCP (so-called ‘communist’) dictatorship proposed boosting domestic demand, a promise it has repeated for more than two decades, and vigorously developing high-tech industries, while […]
Iran War Brings Economic Chaos – How Can Workers Fight Back?
Just under a year ago, John Healey, Labour’s Defence Secretary in Britain, visited a munitions factory. There, he made a speech extolling the virtues of a dawning new era of ‘military Keynesianism’. Slashing overseas aid budgets and “reinforcing the British industrial base” would lead to “more jobs in every part of the UK”, or so […]
