Asia & the Pacific

Coronavirus highlights gap between socialist and capitalist responses

March 9 -- Mounting concern and panic over the global outbreak COVID-19 has gripped headlines as more countries grapple with…

March 10, 2020

How Cuba’s antiviral medicine is helping China

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde Rosa Miriam Elizalde is a Cuban journalist and editor of the site Cubadebate.  Reprinted from La…

March 4, 2020

Spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) exposes profit system

March 2 -- As this is written, the coronavirus (COVID-19) has become a pandemic reaching around the world, almost entirely…

March 3, 2020

Anti-racist action in a racist epidemic

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the world, in its wake comes another kind of epidemic -- an outbreak of…

March 3, 2020

Solidarity with Kashmir!

Parts of this statement were presented at a March 1 rally in Durham, N.C. Workers World Party is here today…

March 2, 2020

Korean leaders reject U.S. sanctions, stress self-reliance

The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea has rebuffed threats made by the U.S. against the Democratic People’s…

February 28, 2020

How socialist base helps China combat coronavirus

China is showing the world what is needed -- and possible -- to combat the outbreak of a new, highly…

February 11, 2020

The coronavirus and an epidemic of racist U.S. propaganda

The novel coronavirus that first appeared in Wuhan, China, had by Feb. 10 spread to 28 countries and territories, leading…

February 11, 2020

Worldwide mass protests slam Modi’s anti-Muslim law

Hundreds of thousands of people protested on Jan. 26 across India and in many cities abroad to oppose the Citizenship…

January 29, 2020

U.N. report shows how People’s China cleaned Beijing’s air

The United Nations Environment Programme recently released a report called “UN Environment 2019: A Review of 20 Years’ Air Pollution…

January 22, 2020