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Can Xi Jinping defuse China’s debt bomb?

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...

‘Belt and Road’: Imperialism with Chinese characteristics

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...

China: Arrests of Maoist youth triggers online protests

Protests needed • Drop all the charges! Shen Mo, chinaworker.info The sweeping crackdown on dissent in China under Xi Jinping is well known. While most international media reports focus on repression against liberal dissidents it is not unu...

Theresa May’s silence is a green light for Chinese repression

British PM’s visit to China puts business rights before human rights Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info During her three-day visit to China, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May avoided irking her hosts with talk of human rights or the recent a...

“Frost Boy” puts China’s rural poverty in the global spotlight

China has 60 million left-behind children – where is their ‘China Dream’? Dahu, chinaworker.info Wang Fuman, from a poor village in Yunnan province, has become an internet sensation as “Frost Boy” after pictures appeared online showing him arri...

Free Tibetan activist Tashi Wangchuk

Calling for the right to use Tibetan language in schools is not a crime Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info A nine-minute video made by the New York Times may cost Tibetan language rights activist Tashi Wangchuk fifteen years in prison. He is the...

International solidarity against authoritarian rule in Hong Kong

Stop Repression in Hong Kong is an international campaign initiated by socialists and left organisations to protest the worsening crackdown on democratic rights in Hong Kong and China chinaworker.info reporters The Chinese dictatorship is presi...

Eight year jail sentence for Chinese dissident Wu Gan

State using systematic frame-ups and ‘carrot and stick’ methods to extract confessions Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info On 26 December, the blogger Wu Gan, known by his online nickname Super Vulgar Butcher, was sentenced to eight years in pris...

Hong Kong: Only mass struggle can defeat repression

A week hardly passes without the Chinese dictatorship stepping up its pressure on Hong Kong Editorial from Socialist magazine (Journal of the CWI / Socialist Action) Beijing is pushing for greater political control and to quell Hong Kong’s cult...

Global voices – Stop Repression in Hong Kong

Ireland's Left party Solidarity and global left activists condemn the repression in Hong Kong Interview with Paul Murphy, member of the Irish parliament Paul Murphy is the group leader of Solidarity-People Before Profit in the Irish parliament....

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How Militant Intervened in Britain’s Labour Party

August 31, 2026 Interview with Mike Forster and Cormac Kelly This article was originally published in early June 2026, in issue #3 of International M...

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