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Internationalism No. 80, October 2025 Page 16 In the Middle East, events that are tragic, old, new, and strange are unfolding. The tragedy is the systematic annihilation of Gaza City, where the exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees amid hunger, thirst, and disease adds to the 65,000 Palestinian victims. This mounting death toll increasingly dwarfs the tragedy of the 1,200 people slaughtered in kibbutzim during the terrorist attack on October 7 th , two years ago. The attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, lies somewhere between the old and the new. Israel has committed to an eighth front in its war, following those in Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza. The Israeli State is counting on the divisions among the Arab bourgeoisie and their cynicism towards the Palestinians, who are used and abandoned with every shift in the wind of Middle Eastern rivalries and alliances, and this is nothing new. However, by involving the pet...

Internationalism No. 73, March 2025 Page 14 From the series Industry and pharmaceuticals The surge in China’s biopharmaceutical industry over the last decade is part of its broader scientific and technological ascent and therefore deserves our attention. Such growth presents a challenge to other imperialist powers. The Biosecure Act’s intention, to reduce the ties between American and Chinese biotech firms, has been branded by The Economist as “old-fashioned protectionism”. The British weekly recognises, however, that the clash goes well beyond a trade war. The stakes are higher. In a lengthy cover story [“The rise of Chinese science”], it writes that “China is now a leading scientific power”. Just five years ago, this was still considered only a possibility. The current question is whether this is “welcome or worrying” [June 15th, 2024]. Unity and scission The viewpoint of that publication, an authoritative voice of one of the power-houses of imperia...