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China’s central bank warns of financial crisis

People’s Bank of China governor warns economic bubble could burst chinaworker.info (2nd in our three-part series of articles on October’s 19th CCP Congress) There are a great many “Ponzi” features present in China’s economic growth and we co...

2017: Year of the crackdown in Hong Kong

Disrespect for national anthem punishible by three years in prison – latest installment in a wave of undemocratic measures Adam N. Lee, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) The Stop Repression in Hong Kong campaign was launched to highlight the ...

Global protests against Hong Kong repression

Protesters in at least 20 countries plan to demonstrate in solidarity with Hong Kong political prisoners and ousted lawmakers chinaworker.info Lorenzo Rodríguez is the General Secretary of the Independent Democratic Farm Labourers’ Union in...

Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation profiteering from state repression

“A tool of the government’s political crackdown”  Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info Hong Kong’s state-owned rail giant MTR has expanded aggressively overseas in the past decade. The company has exploited the worldwide mania for privatisation of f...

Hong Kong: Down with authoritarian rule!

Rebuild the Hong Kong democracy struggle, but to win the direction of the movement has to change! This is the text of a mass leaflet to be distributed by Socialist Action’s team in the October 1 demonstration in Hong Kong. Tens of thousands ar...

Hong Kong: Pro-Beijing politicians threaten to kill independence supporters

Government steps up political repression • University campuses the new battleground Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) Hong Kong’s pro-government camp is stepping up its vicious campaign of repression against the pro-democracy camp, es...

Bannon kowtows to Chinese dictatorship

Anti-racist protest as Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon speaks in Hong Kong Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info Racist politician Steve Bannon made a brief visit to Hong Kong on 12 September. President Trump’s former ‘chief strategist’ was ...

China’s repression reaches Australia

China’s international state repression now reaches inside Australia, targeting its own overseas students, academics and Chinese-language media By Kirk Leonard, Socialist Party (CWI) Australia Recent reporting on this activity in the...

Marxism and the democracy struggle

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...

China: State repression and the prospects for workers’ struggle

Introduction to China Commission at CWI Summer School 2017 by Hayashi (CWI in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) There are a number of questions we need to discuss. How serious is the economic crisis in China? Is Xi Jinping really the strongest leader s...

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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster

March 11, 2026 Leon Pinsky, Sociaist Alternative (ISA in the US) A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Part...

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