China

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Under Xi Jinping’s rule repression, censorship, and ‘Big Brother’ surveillance have reached new levels, resembling and in some aspects surpassing Orwell’s science fiction nightmare chinaworker.info statement (3rd in our three-part series of art...

CCP leader’s doctrine of iron dictatorship and China’s “great power” status is enshrined in party constitution – but is this a recipe for stable rule? chinaworker.info statement 1. The outcome of the 19th CCP Congress 2. China’s central bank...