Democracy

How Does China’s System Really Work?

August 26, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Capitalism, China, climate crisis, Democracy, Environment, green energy, Neoliberalism, Socialism

Today, I have the pleasure of being joined by the renowned Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei. He is a professor at the prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai. He has millions of followers on Chinese social media. And we just participated in an academic conference. Professor Zhang, it is nice to meet you. I want to begin asking you about your idea of the “China model”. This is something you have been speaking about for many years, for almost 20 years now. If you look at China’s economic development in recent decades, it’s amazing. The statistics don’t lie.

Climate Change Tests The Wildlife Conservation Model In Namibia

August 24, 2025 Petro Kotze, Resilience. Create! Biodiversity, climate crisis, Conservation, Democracy, Namibia

“I want my children to see a rhino with their own eyes — not only in Etosha [National Park],” says Sofia /Nuas, a member of the Sesfontein Conservancy Committee, located in Namibia’s arid northwest. She’s sitting in the shade of a large sausage tree, yet even on this winter morning temperatures have quickly soared to more than 30° Celsius (86° Fahrenheit). Life in this hot and dry region is already tough, but climate change will intensify it. With a population of less than 3,000, Sesfontein is a small settlement located in the Northwestern Escarpment and Inselbergs of the Nama Karoo Biome. Cattle and goats meander across dusty roads, but tourists are also drawn to the desert-like outpost for its enigmatic landscapes and a chance to glimpse some of the world’s last free-roaming, critically endangered black rhinos (Diceros bicornis), as well as Namibia’s famed desert-adapted lions (Panthera leo) and African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana).

The Report On Human Rights Violations In The United States In 2024

August 20, 2025 State Council Information Office of The People's Republic of China, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Democracy, Human Rights, Report, United States

2024, as an election year in the United States, was a year of special concern that featured aggravating political strife and social division. Such a landscape offers an opportunity to review the state of human rights in the country in an intensive manner. Money controls U.S. politics, with partisan interests above voter rights. The total spending for the 2024 U.S. election cycle exceeded 15.9 billion U.S. dollars, once again setting a new record for the high cost of American political campaigns. Interest groups, operating in the "gray areas" beyond the effective reach of current U.S. campaign laws, used money to wantonly manipulate the fundamental logic and actual functioning of U.S. politics.

How Finance Wrecked Democracy

August 18, 2025 Raul Madden, Counterpunch. Strategize! Big Finance, Capitalism, Democracy, Economic Democracy

Michael A. McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools is about the power that finance exerts over people. He inquires into the problem and how it could realistically be solved: Why has finance capitalism left people worse off and further wrecked democracy along the way? Why does the financial sector increasingly determine our lives and politics… ? [H]ow might an alternative to investment for profit leave people better off, reinvigorate the demos, and rebuild democracy? (xii) When I started reading the book I thought maybe McCarthy’s response to these questions could be better reviewed by someone whose work is directly related to them. Still it seemed like an excellent resource for someone who is seeking to learn about the subject. It soon became apparent that the point of his book — ‘democratizing finance’ (9) — calls for responses from outsiders to the author’s field.

What Does Cuba’s New Legal Gender Recognition Law Entail?

July 31, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Cuba, Democracy, Gender equality, LGBTQ Rights

On July 18, Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power approved a sweeping reform of the Civil Registry Law, which will allow transgender people to update their legal gender on official documents without requiring gender reassignment surgery. The reform was unanimously approved by the Cuban Parliament and aligns with the provisions of the 2019 Constitution and the Family Code, approved by referendum in 2022. In addition to legal gender recognition, the new law legally recognizes affective unions between unmarried couples and allows parents to choose the order of their children’s surnames, opening the door to more equitable and less normative practices in family structure.

China’s Five-Year Plans Democratic, People-Centred And Grounded In Material Reality

July 27, 2025 Carlos Martinez, Friends of Socialist China. Strategize! China, Democracy, Five Year Plans, Governance

In a wide-ranging interview with Global Times, Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez describes China’s Five-Year Plans (FYPs) as democratic, people-centred, and grounded in material reality. He emphasises that China’s success in planning stems from its ability to align governance with popular needs and long-term strategy. “China is known globally for its effective governance and for its record of keeping its promises”, he notes, citing the 13th FYP’s targeted poverty alleviation campaign as a key example of practical planning based on extensive grassroots research. Carlos stresses that these plans are not top-down decrees but involve widespread consultation, making them highly democratic and responsive to the needs of the people.

Capitalists And Their Black Middlemen Are Colonizing Jewel Of Westchester

July 24, 2025 Imani Nile, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Democracy, New York (NY), Racial Discrimination, Westchester

Today, Mount Vernon, New York, faces a 21st-century plan for colonization implemented by backroom deal-making where developers, politicians, and the Black misleadership class join forces to plot how to divide our city. Their tools aren’t the treaties and the weapons of old, but of rezoning maps and austerity budgets. Their targets aren’t the ivory and rubber that European colonists sought in Africa, but Black neighborhoods, Latino labor, and the political autonomy of working-class people. Mount Vernon, a majority Black and Latino community, is often called the “Jewel of Westchester”.

What Kind Of ‘-ocracy’ Are We? The Choice Is Yours

July 17, 2025 Peter Greenhill, Popular Resistance. Educate! Democracy, Kakistocracy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, Thanatocracy, United States

It’s time to choose your “–ocracy,” the one you think best fits a US society and system in free fall. There are some choices to suggest. We live not only in a plutocracy, it is also at the same time both a kakistocracy and a thanatocracy. What it isn’t any longer is a democracy, and it hasn’t been one for some time now. Our efforts should thus be directed at making it the kind of democracy it’s supposed to be. Let’s explain these terms so that you can make an informed choice. In doing so, let’s start with plutocracy because it’s the one getting the most attention lately.

Unpacking The Localism Manifesto: Solving Our Crises From The Bottom Up

July 14, 2025 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Featured Campaign, Podcast - Clearing The FOG Democracy, Governance, Local Economy, popular power, Sustainability

The United States is a failing country. Political leaders at all levels have failed to effectively solve the many crises we face such as the climate crisis, economic insecurity and growing inequality, and the need for affordable housing, education, and health care, and more. Action at the local level, where people have the most control, offers a pathway forward. Clearing the FOG speaks with Michael Shuman, author of A Localism Manifesto, which can be found at The Main Street Journal. Shuman explains how decentralized action works, the principles involved, and how it offers a radical new politics that can heal the current polarization of our society.

Struggle For The Freedom Charter Goes On

July 13, 2025 Ronnie Kasrils, Mail and Guardian. Strategize! Apartheid, Democracy, Freedom Charter, South Africa

The Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown 70 years ago, on 26 June 1955. Thousands of delegates travelled across South Africa — by train, by bus, on foot — to take part in the Congress of the People. They met under an open sky, gathered on a dusty field where a wooden stage had been erected. Armed police watched from the perimeter but the atmosphere was determined and jubilant. One by one, the clauses of the Charter — on land, work, education, housing, democracy, peace — were read aloud, and each was met with unanimous approval. The charter distilled months of discussion and collective vision.

State Power, Corporate Power Or ‘Little Powers’?

July 13, 2025 Christine Dann, Resilience. Educate! Democracy, Energy, Exploitation, New Zealand

As I write, New Zealand is also facing the biggest sucker of electrical energy ever created – digital data storage and delivery. This was bad enough when it was being sent directly to electricity-powered digital ‘appliances’ (phones, personal and commercial computers, screens of all kinds),9) but in 2023 a new and extremely energy-intensive function was introduced – machine learning, commonly known as AI. It is extremely difficult to get accurate data on the contribution of different industries to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as each one has an obvious interest in disguising how big their contribution is.

We Need A Pro-Democracy Environmental Movement

June 29, 2025 Khalil Shahyd, Next City. Strategize! Democracy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Movement, Participatory Democracy

Few people outside of Memphis, Tennessee, have heard of Boxtown, a community of about 3,000 residents in the city’s southwest corner. Founded in 1863 by formerly enslaved Black Americans, Boxtown has a long history of resisting environmental injustices, from polluting industries to toxic infrastructure, that have worsened health outcomes and lowered life expectancy. Today the community is at the center of a growing fight over the future of our democracy and the role of technology and technocrats in deciding for us what constitutes progress and good governance. When residents learned that xAI, a company led by Elon Musk, planned to install the “world’s largest” supercomputer in their neighborhood — without public input or transparency — they mobilized.

Lawyers Fight Back

June 20, 2025 Michael Steven Smith, Alte. Resist! Democracy, Donald Trump, Fascism, Lawyers

Trump and the MAGA movement behind him have taken huge steps to upend and overturn the kind of democracy, however limited by race and class, that we have lived with since our independence from England some 250 years ago. In order to secure their rule, these fascists, like those in the Hitler movement 90 years ago, attempted to get control of the various apparatuses of our society. They aimed at the major media, the universities, the states like California, the scientific establishment, the medical profession, the cultural apparatus, the top brass in the military, and the big law firms.

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