The Current for the Permanent Revolution launches its new website dedicated to Asia

The international situation is marked by a historic resurgence of tensions between the great powers, particularly linked to the decline of American hegemonic power and the emergence of China as a new competitor. The United States and China are engaged in a struggle for hegemony, with major geopolitical and economic repercussions. East and Southeast Asia now play a decisive role in clashes between the great powers, as illustrated by trade wars and rising customs tariffs. Recent events in the region, such as the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing or the military tensions between China and the United States over the control of Taiwan or the rearmament of Japan, reflect an international situation in which the Indo-Pacific region is increasingly becoming the nerve center.

Moreover, Asia has become one of the main concentrations of the international proletariat. From China to Southeast Asian countries, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the region is home to hundreds of millions of workers embedded in global production chains, subject to fierce exploitation, but also possessing immense potential for struggle and organization. The strikes by workers at Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron, as well as the struggles of Samsung workers in South Korea, demonstrate the immense strength of a massive working class that is only just beginning to awaken.

In this context, the CPR discussed, during its 14th International Conference, held in São Paulo, Brazil, from December 15 to 20, the need to strengthen its political ties in Asia. Our comrades from the March towards Socialism in South Korea have therefore proposed the creation of a new website dedicated to ideological, political and strategic debates concerning Asia, in order to establish links and relationships with workers on the continent. It is with this goal – to more directly reach the Asian audience – particularly workers, women and young people who participate in the class struggle and who wish to discuss the construction of an international revolutionary socialist perspective – that we are launching this platform.

The new site CRP Asia News aims to become a tool for political, theoretical and strategic debate on the new challenges of the international situation for the proletariat and revolutionaries of the region. He will present the main recent analyzes of the CPR on the international situation, such as those on the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine or the American offensive against Latin America (Cuba, Venezuela), as well as numerous debates on the theory of permanent revolution, Trotsky and Gramsci, Marxist discussions on the revolutions of the 20th century, the question of self-organization and the united workers’ front, the construction of combative Leninist parties and the characterization of new phenomena such as the global rise of China, among others. It will also cover the politics of the CPR and its various groups on an international scale.

The site will be developed and maintained by comrades from the CPR and March To Socialism (South Korea), and will also address major current events in the region and emerging central political debates. In a period of economic crisis, trade war and escalating imperialist rivalries, the CPR asserts that only the independent intervention of workers and the oppressed can open a progressive path out of the current upheavals. against American, Japanese and European imperialism, as well as against rising capitalist powers like China.

The CPR seeks to organize workers independently of the various factions of the bourgeoisie, imperialism and capitalist states, including those which seek to present themselves as so-called alternatives to Western imperialism but who brutally exploit their own working class, such as the Chinese bureaucracy. We seek to rebuild a revolutionary current that links “East and West”, whose strategy is based on the construction of revolutionary parties that promote and defend the self-organization of the working class, in total independence from the bosses and union bureaucracies, in order to unify workers. for the construction of a true global party of social revolution, which for us is the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky. A strategy based on class independence, which seeks to link the struggles of the labor movement to all oppressed sectors such as women and ethnic and national minorities in society through a hegemonic program.

Our perspective is therefore to exchange and discuss these ideas with the Asian left which also defends class independence, Marxism and the prospect of an international revolution.

This organic, anti-imperialist and internationalist perspective, which we have defended within the CRP-CI, strives to rebuild an international party in an era of crisis and war, to open the way to socialist revolutions through the construction of a Movement for an International of the Socialist Revolution and the reconstruction of the Fourth International. Asia is a fundamental continent for this great task. We call on everyone to take up this challenge.