Socialists
fight for all, even limited democratic advances, but explain the need to
overthrow capitalism
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The following is a reprint from September 2010 of our reply to criticisms on social media from a sectar...
Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party
This article by Vincent Kolo was first published on chinaworker.info in October 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Re...
The following article is the foreword to a new book from chinaworker.info on the democracy struggle in Hong Kong and China
On July 1 2017, the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China, Xi Jinping effectively read the riot act – warning Ho...
100 years since the Russian Revolution 1917-2017
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
A century ago this week, 500,000 workers and soldiers marched through the Russian capital Petrograd, with tens of thousands joining marches in Moscow, Kiev and othe...
Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...
3 September, 1938, marked the start of the Fourth International’s founding conference
socialistworld.net
Marxists in the 1930s were compelled to draw far-reaching political conclusions following huge defeats of the working class. For example, i...
We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history
Document adopted by the December 2012 meeting of the International Executive Committee of the CWIIntroduction
We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history....
March 8th – a day to remember the struggles and the victories of women workers
Clare Doyle, CWI
For more than a century, March 8th has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better dea...
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...
Climate change and extreme weather compounded by bureaucratic cost-cutting and bungling
Li Yong and Moby, ISA China
Beijing has been hit by extreme ...
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