Defend China and fight for an independent socialist Xinjiang! National oppression in China with Comrade Ray Bishop

Listen to a hayfevery Mansa as she sits down with Ray Bishop, member of the ed board of Spartacist, and author of "National Opperssion in Xi's China: A Trotskyist answer." We discuss how the national oppression of Uyghurs is used by imperialists to go after China and why it is necessary to fight for an independent socialist Xinjiang to defend China. Today, as the US goes belligerent and seeks to asphyxiate the People's Republic, the defence of China is paramount for the international working class, and key to this defence is to make sense of this utterly controversial question that the international left cannot deal with. 

The article we discuss can be read here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/china-natl

China: Do nothing, lose: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/china

Open letter to the Central Committee of the CPC: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/2025-cpc-letter

Check out translations of our articles in Chinese here: https://iclfi.org/zh

Check out other articles in the latest Spartacist here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70

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