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A further article from the Foreign Affairs website
https://tinyurl.com/ChinaDemographics
It’s 4500 words long but contains some useful info – here are what I think are key points for us:
How much any of the following is due to the fuckup of the one child policy, the author doesn’t say but, against the background of an ageing population:
Pensions: starting in 2025, pension age to rise over next 15 years (so the huge increases in productivity won’t reduce the length of the sentences handed down to the wage-slaves – as socialists know capital is ever hungry for living labour). Startling claim by author: urban pensions are 18 times higher than rural and (internal) migrant pensions.Not enough babbies
The state is encouraging women to be better wives and “In 2021, it launched a new slate of pro-natalist initiatives including baby bonuses and parental leave policies while restricting access to divorce, abortion, and vasectomies.”State creating a cleft stick for itself?
Promotion of nationalism has provoked anti-immigrant ideas – against a backdrop of 18.9% youth unemployment, a 2025 plan to give visas to skilled foreign workers led to uproar on social media – author says no such visas have been issued. For now the state may have have closed off immigration as a solution to labour shortages.Miscellaneous
1 Employees of cash-strapped local govt are facing delays in being paid (unfortunately, the China Labour Bulletin no longer exists to report on such matters)
2 83 million rural and migrant residents have dropped out of enrolled in the state health-care programme because they can no longer afford the insurance premiums.I hope this has been useful!
Roberto,
it would be really interesting to see your idea of ‘our lives are finite, and our time is our life’ woven into a propaganda article.Comrade – I hope you don’t mind but I nicked part of your text for this week’s website snippet – it should appear tomorrow
this report from 2025 is accessible
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40906995/
It appears from the following that California brought in an attempt at protection at the start of this year but medics argue that it is insufficient – that ‘engineered’ stone should be banned entirely.‘My Lungs Had Nothing Left’: Inside the Epidemic Killing Countertop Stonecutters
Surprise surprise, the employers in that sector oppose that idea
Thanks for your contributions comrades – for what it’s worth I observe that in Moral Sentiments the hand is definitely a god thing, in Wealth of Nations there’s no indication that it isn’t.
Robbo, of what is it a metaphor though? And only a metaphor in Wealth of Nations? because it certainly doesn’t seem to be one in Moral Sentiments.
Should we be arguing that, if Mamdani’s bunch can increase rent controls, there might be a temporary improvement to workers’ living standards but the law of value will operate on wages and the end result will merely be a redistribution of surplus value away from the rentiers and towards the employers?
3 of us gave out about 100 leaflets at Manchester yesterday.
Spartacists, RCG, Socialist Equality Party, SWP, budding leaders of the poor benighted proles all, were at it too, as was a new one on me Greater Manchester Left Caucus. Or was it Carcass?
According to Gary, who peered in en route to the lav, the hall seemed to be about half full – so about 250 attended.I learn from Corbyn (today;s Guardian) that private property is the result of undemocratic politics….
“I’ll go further: undemocratic parties produce undemocratic societies, where a small section of society owns the resources we all need to survive.”
I’m glad he has such a clear grasp of history, and of the future because
“Democratic parties produce democratic societies; where wealth and resources are owned by us all”
So we can confidently expect Your Farty to come out in favour of expropriating the owning class. Not!!
Comrade, this thread is about worldsocialist.org,
which has been set up upon the decision of the companion parties.
You don’t want to waste your time helping with it, you wrote. Your choice of course. But if you decide to discuss worldsocialist.org, please check the facts before you do so.Thanks Comrade
It is obvious that we need to do something about our lack of impact with Spanish speakers.
If you have any concrete suggestions for spreading the message (e.g where to advertise to attract Spanish speakers to our online propaganda and online meetings) please send them to spgb.asstsec@worldsocialism.org. I will forward any ideas to the WSM management committeeComrade
I was referring to worldsocialisT.org not worldsocialisM.org, (¡ojo con la ortografia!) which the companion parties launched on 1 May this year. The Spanish pages are mostly the translation you did a while ago.
