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Workers’ strikes and new local rebellions use the slogan “Learn from Wukan” Vincent Kolo and Zhang Shujie, chinaworker.info Wukan is the fishing village in southern China’s Guangdong province that achieved worldwide fame as a symbol of mass res...

International struggle can end dictatorship of the markets Joint declaration by CWI sections in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain In 2012, the markets and capitalist governments which serve them, have more misery in store. This will me...

On the brink of a new downturn Lynn Walsh, editor of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) “2012 will not be a walk in the park”, warns Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF. The world capitalist econom...

Capitalist chaos – class struggle sharpens CWI - a socialist analysis Below, we publish a document on world and European perspectives which will be proposed by the CWI’s International Secretariat to a meeting of the International Executive Comm...

Unofficial memoirs of top Chinese leader fill important gaps in our knowledge Reviewed by Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The circumstances under which ‘Prisoner of the State’ was written are quite dramatic, perhaps more so than the book itself...

Nothing alarmed the CCP dictatorship more than the movement of the working class aroused to action by the student-led democracy protests Vincent Kolo, from the book Tiananmen 1989: Seven Weeks That Shook the World The great significance of the ...

This article on the national question in Tibet and China was first published on 22 September 2005 Tibet – the “rooftop of the world” – was occupied by the People’s Liberation Army in 1950 and later incorporated into People’s Republic of China as t...

Revolution never develops in a straight line Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, London Between February and October 1917 there were many sharp turns in the situation in Russia. In April, the government coalition of 'socialists' ...

The national question is, without doubt, one of the great issues facing socialists and marxists today. Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) Lenin described Tzarist Russia as a prison house of nationalities – 57% of its peoples were non-R...

Taiwan was first incorporated into China by the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) in 1683. It first became a province of China in 1885, ten years before the Qing surrendered it to the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese war.  By Laurence CoatesHan Chinese settle...