As capitalist industrial practices spread throughout the globe, the associated environmental problems were similarly dispersed and environment questions were actively posed for an increasing number of nations and an increasing portion of the global population.

Describing the economic interests of workers in the industrialized countries and those of workers in developing countries as "inextricably tied," United Auto Workers (UAW President Ron Gettelfinger presented a keynote address to the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month.

The new Russian President Medvedev traveled to China on his first visit abroad. Beyond the new announced cooperation agreements, which confirm the forward momentum of the commercial relations between China and Russia, the two countries also signed a joint statement on some important international issues.

It’s true that China is using the upcoming Beijing Olympics as a sustainability showcase, going so far as to dub the event the “Green Olympics.” Through a partnership with the U.S. government and the Maryland-based International Center for Sustainable Development, China is giving Beijing a green makeover.

For many years, ever since the commencement of the modern Olympics in 1896, the US and European powers have controlled the Olympic Games. They have come to believe that they "own" them. The figures tell the story.

Are Western leaders truly defending human rights? Is it possible to criticize the Chinese government without embracing the Dalai Lama’s theocratic project?

China is to introduce a "green insurance system" to better monitor polluting industries and help victims get immediate compensation, said Pan Yue, vice director with the top environment watchdog, here on Monday.

For a very long time now, the US has been the main engine of growth in the global capitalist system, essentially through its voracious demand for imports which have caused significant increases in export growth in both other developed countries as well as the developing world.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said here on Monday that China attaches great importance to sustainable development and will take a series of measures to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

The central goal of the United States is control of the planet, power to install governments subservient to its demands, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, the power to inflict on peoples everywhere “free market” corporate capitalism.

In an article in the July 2007 Political Affairs, “Class Struggle in a Socialist Market Economy,” I attempted to illustrate the different form of class struggle that takes place in a socialist-oriented mixed economy with a strong capitalist component.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) closed its 17th National Congress on Sunday, endorsing the incorporation of the scientific outlook on development into the Party Constitution and installing a new 371-member Central Committee and a 127-member Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

cological compensation is a new mechanism being tried by the State Environmental Protection Administration to further contain pollution by increasing the cost of discharging pollutants and rewarding conservation.

Officials from the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) revealed at a press conference yesterday that detailed rules will come out soon to tighten supervision of the entire process from the purchasing of raw materials to the production and distribution of drugs and food.

The State Council's decision to revise the water pollution law is an overdue response to the water quality crisis surfacing nationwide.

he U.S. government has lately been showing in no uncertain terms its unhappiness with China's protection of the United States' intellectual property rights (IPRs).

Friday’s New York Times (4-20-07) had a front page story by Joseph Kahn with the headline “In China, Talk Of Democracy Is Simply That.” The following is an analysis of Kahn’s article.

Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Party staged a rally in Taipei on Saturday to protest the authorities' recent "de-sinicizing" moves.

When historians of the future look back, they may very well conclude that 2007 marked the time when the crisis of US imperialism became so obvious that even the dimmest bulb could detect it.

The alliance between Japan and Australia is part of a much wider plan between the conservative governments of the Washington-Tokyo-Canberra axis, to surround the People’s Republic of China and to eventually provoke a war against that country unless it falls into line with their political and economic demands.