Xinhua article BEIJING, Sept. 20 — Software giant IBM and Swedish automaker Volvo are among the latest batch of Fortune 500 companies doing business in China that plan to set up trade unions in the country, a senior union official said on Friday. Yang Honglin, head of the grassroots organizations and capacity building department of the … [Read more…]
You have received communication from the organisers of the meeting who happen to be the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist). We are trying to start an organisation called Hands Off China and you have received from us a communication as to why we want to start that. China has done no harm to anybody. … [Read more…]
In my student days, Japan invaded China. The terrible scenes described in the newspapers aroused my interest and indignation. Soon after, Lady Cripps, the wife of Sir Stafford Cripps, launched a campaign which raised the slogan ‘Hands off China!’ I understood that the struggle against Japanese imperialism being led by the Chinese Communist Party was … [Read more…]
Comrade Chair and Comrades, it is my pleasure to accept the offer of being a patron of Hands Off China on behalf of IWA which fully associates itself with the aims of Hands Off China. I notice that the membership forms for Hands Off China there is provision for individual members, but I think thought … [Read more…]
When the Communist Party of China came to power in 1949, China, despite its splendid and ancient culture and civilisation, was one of the poorest and most wretched societies on earth. Millions perished from starvation, life expectancy was in the low 30s, illiteracy and disease were all pervasive, women were subjected to excruciatingly painful foot … [Read more…]
[Kojo is the former Ghanian ambassador to China and a veteran of the Ghanian independence struggle] Thank you comrades and friends. I came here because my good friend Keith Bennett told me there was about to be launched an organisation close to my heart, so I said I would participate. 42 years ago I was … [Read more…]
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We will be holding a public meeting in Southall, West London, to celebrate the 59th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (1 October, 1949). The meeting will take place on Saturday 4 October 2008, from 6.30-9.30pm. The venue: Saklatvala Hall Dominion Road Southall West London UB2 5AA View location on Google Maps … [Read more…]
Download leaflet in PDF format Socialist and anti-imperialist states have always been subjected to slanders and accusations by the imperialist press and academia. The endless clamour about ‘human rights abuses’ is a tired old technique for deceiving people. As Malcolm X once said: “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people … [Read more…]
Xinhua article BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — Hua Guofeng, a former leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was cremated at Beijing’s Babaoshan cemetery on Sunday. President and Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee General Secretary Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, sent their condolences on his passing. In addition to Hu, … [Read more…]