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

Furthermore, Asia has become one of the main concentrations of the international proletariat. From China to the countries of Southeast Asia, as well as South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, the region is home to hundreds of millions of workers integrated into global production chains, subjected 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 tremendous 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 March To Socialism in South Korea thus proposed the creation of a new website dedicated to ideological, political, and strategic debates concerning Asia, in order to establish ties and relationships with workers on the continent. It is with this aim in mind—to reach the Asian public more directly— in particular workers, women, and youth who participating 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 News Asia aims to become a tool for political, theoretical, and strategic debate on the new challenges of the international situation for the proletariat and revolutionaries in the region. It will feature the CPR’s main recent analyses of the international situation, such as those regarding the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine, or the U.S. 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 workers’ united front, the building of combative Leninist parties, and the characterization of new phenomena such as China’s global rise, among others. It will also cover the policies 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 the main current events in the region and the central political debates that are emerging. 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 way out of the current upheavals, against U.S., Japanese, and European imperialism, as well as against rising capitalist powers such as China.

The CPR seeks to organize workers in complete independence from the various factions of the bourgeoisie, from imperialism, and from capitalist states, including those that seek to present themselves as supposed alternatives to Western imperialism but brutally exploit their own working class, such as the Chinese bureaucracy. We seek to rebuild a revolutionary current that connects “the East and the West,” whose strategy is based on the building of revolutionary parties that promote and defend the self-organization of the working class, in complete independence from the bosses and the union bureaucracies, in order to unify the workers, for the construction of a true world 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 workers’ movement to all oppressed sectors such as women and ethnic and national minorities of society through a hegemonic program.

Therefore, our perspective is to exchange and discuss these ideas with the Asian left that also defends class independence, Marxism, and the perspective of international revolution.

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

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