Socialist Development

6 Minutes

World

Cuba’s economic reforms produce quick changes in labour and employment

PV March 11, 2021

Starting in January 2021, Cuba began to implement broad economic reforms designed to increase production and exports, in an effort to mitigate the effects of the US blockade and the coronavirus pandemic. The following...

5 Minutes

Culture

A passionate and entertaining account of GDR socialism

PV February 17, 2020

A Socialist Defector: from Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee Author: Victor Grossman Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2019 Thirty one years ago the Berlin Wall came down and the working class in the German Democratic Republic (GDR),...

9 Minutes

World

Labour in China: Harmony or Struggle?

PV March 9, 2018

Neither the social-justice-minded critics of the Chinese model nor those who praise its extraordinary achievements are without evidence for their assessments....