China

Escalation of tit-for-tat conflict between world’s largest economies By Vincent Kolo The trade conflict between China and the US has escalated in recent weeks. Beijing initially believed it could ‘manage’ relations with the unstable US admini...

Protests in 25 cities around the world on May 4 against attacks on democratic rights By Stop Repression in Hong Kong May 4, 99 years after the historic 1919 movement for democracy and modernisation in China, was the date of international soli...

Strikes and protests at construction sites across the country demanding better pay and conditions chinaworker.info reporters Crane drivers in China’s construction industry have taken strike action in dozens of cities across the country. Tha...

One of China’s largest recent strikes shows the need for independent workers’ unions Li Yiming, chinaworker.info Once again China’s official pseudo trade union, ACFTU (All China Federation of Trade Unions), the only union legally allowed, has b...

Noam Chomsky among signatories of worldwide petition launched by Stop Repression in Hong Kong campaign Vincent Kolo The Stop Repression in Hong Kong campaign is planning a day of worldwide protests on Friday 4 May. chinaworker.info urges re...

International solidarity with Hong Kong’s democracy struggle is spreading Socialist Action reporters Stop Repression in Hong Kong is a campaign initiated by Socialist Action with the support of international left organisations and individuals. ...

Xi Jinping’s policies added four new billionaires every week last year • Wealth of billionaire ‘lawmakers’ more than doubled since 2013 Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info The 13th National People’s Congress (China’s pseudo parliament, the NPC), open...

Lifting of presidential term limits plunges China and its autocratic regime into unchartered territory chinaworker.info reporters The news from Beijing is historic – nothing less than a political earthquake with repercussions around the world. ...

Beijing’s “critical battle” against financial risk could set off the very economic crisis it hopes to avoid Editorial from Socialist《社会主义者》magazine, Spring edition 2018 “Mounting debt, a housing crisis and an increasingly hostile United Sta...

Gigantic Belt and Road infrastructure plan – spearhead for Chinese dictatorship’s economic and geopolitical strategy Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The gigantic Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has assumed increasing importance for the regime...