Speaking at a symposium in Beijing on 2 September 2025, Keith Bennett recalled the history of solidarity with China’s revolution, commemorating friends of China such as George Hogg and Arthur Clegg, and the history of workers’ organizations who stood by China including the communist-led South Wales Miners Federation.

In a review published in the Chinese press, Keith Bennett writes: “Xi’s concept of a community with a shared future is the shoreline that humanity has to swim towards. The Governance of China is like a lodestar or lighthouse illuminating the way to a distant shore. That is why I am sure that this latest volume will be eagerly awaited, read, studied and discussed by people on every continent.”

In a meeting called by Third World Solidarity to commemorate Rabindranath Tagore, Keith Bennett delivered the keynote speech, in which he detailed Tagore’s contribution to international solidarity against imperialism, which included his support for Ireland’s independence and a close knowledge of, and solidarity with, world socialism.