CPC National Congress opens

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China comes together this week, with delegates representing nearly 100 million members. The first day of the Congress was opened by President Xi Jinping, who yesterday told the Congress that the “central task of the CPC will be … building China into a great modern socialist country”.
20th National Congress to see major reshuffling

Jacob Fominov writes about why the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is so pivotal
On the conception of freedoms: towards a socialist theory of human rights

“Socialists must disengage from the bourgeois conception of human rights”, writes Ethan Chan
25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover

25 years on, Ethan Chan writes that the propaganda war against China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong is intensifying
On living in China

In this transcript of a speech delivered to the International Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of China, YCL member Jacob Fominov describes what it was like living in the nation – from being introduced to Marxism, to seeing the government’s handling of the pandemic first-hand
Lessons from Tiananmen Square

On the 33rd anniversary of the end of the Tiananmen Square protests, Eben Dombay Williams examines why anti-communists continue to use the period as ammunition in the ‘New Cold War’
Speech at a Ceremony Marking the Centenary of the Communist Youth League of China

This is the transcript of the speech Xi Jinping gave to commemorate the centenary of the Communist Youth League of China, Great Hall of the People, Beijing
British government must stop interfering with Hong Kong’s internal affairs

Almost 25 years since the return of Hong Kong to China, the British government still looks out with a colonial mindset
“Everyone’s happy to do their part”: interview with a Chinese citizen in lockdown

Eben Dombay Williams interviews a Chinese citizen about the government’s handling of COVID-19 and what it’s like being in self-isolation there
Peng Shuai wants privacy – Western media doesn’t care

Eben Dombay Williams writes on the Western media’s lies about Peng Shuai
