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In a major international forum in Beijing 3-4 November 2025, the 15th World Socialist Forum, Keith Bennett delivered a paper comprehensively assessing the main trends of the times, entitled “Changes unseen in a century: the collective rise of the Global South with Socialist China at the core”.

Changes unseen in a century: the collective rise of the Global South with Socialist China at the core

4 Nov, 2025

Text of Keith Bennett’s paper.

The following is an account of the 15th World Socialism Forum, from the website of the Friends of Socialist China.

Friends of Socialist China website: The 15th World Socialism Forum was held in Beijing from November 3-4. Organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the forum was hosted by the World Socialism Research Centre, the Academy of Marxism, and the Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, all of which operate as units of CASS.

With an overall theme of ‘At the Crossroads of World History: The Choice of all Nations’, the forum addressed a number of topics, namely:

  • Chinese Modernisation and a New Form of Human Advancement
  • The Rise of Global South Countries and Transformation of the Global Governance System
  • Rejecting Unilateral Power Politics and Upholding International Equity and Justice
  • New Features and Trends of World Socialism amid Profound Global Changes
  • Safeguarding the Outcomes of the World Anti-fascist War and the Postwar International Order

Several hundred Chinese delegates were joined by comrades from Vietnam, Laos and Cuba and by senior representatives from communist parties from around the world, including:

  • Communist Party of Peru (Red Fatherland)
  • Peruvian Communist Party
  • Communist Party of Argentina
  • Colombian Communist Party
  • Communist Party of Uruguay
  • Communist Party of Spain (Party of the European Left)
  • Communist Refoundation Party of Italy (Party of the European Left)
  • Italian Communist Party
  • Communist Party (Italy)
  • Communist Party of Italy
  • Hungarian Workers’ Party
  • Communist Party (Denmark)
  • Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia [Czech Republic]
  • Communist Party (Switzerland)
  • Communist Party of Finland
  • German Communist Party
  • Progressive Party of the Working People of Cyprus (AKEL)
  • Communist Party of Ireland
  • Portuguese Communist Party
  • Communist Party of Armenia
  • Communist Party of the Russian Federation
  • Belarusian Communist Party
  • Socialist Platform (Georgia)
  • New Socialist Movement of Georgia
  • South African Communist Party
  • Japanese Communist Party
  • Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
  • Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) [On November 5, this party was one of 10 that united to form the Nepali Communist Party]
  • Communist Party of Bangladesh
  • Communist Party of Lebanon
  • Iraqi Communist Party

Other participants included academics and scholars of Marxism from Venezuela, Colombia, Tanzania, Russia, Hungary, Ireland, Britain and other countries, think tanks and Marxist study institutions, including from Latin America, Russia, India, Germany, Italy and Cyprus, and young scholars of Marxism currently studying in China, including from the United States, Denmark and India.

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