China

Regime fears calls for ‘International Women’s Strike’ could attract support even in China Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info A leading feminist blog account with 80,000 followers has been closed down in China for voicing criticism of US president Do...

Round One to Xi Jinping? Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The deepening crisis in Washington over the resignation of Michael Flynn and the Trump administration’s alleged contacts with Russian intelligence, has overshadowed the significance of the...

Jail terms of up to ten years imposed on nine protesters  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The ‘Wukan model’, once held up as a beacon of local democracy under a totalitarian state, has well and truly been killed off by the Chinese dictatorship (...

Xu and his family are victims of China’s deepening police crackdown chinaworker.info reporters Hu Xufang is a 45-year-old former management consultant from Liaoning province. He is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in...

Heavy smog hits 460 million people • Thousands of “air refugees” flee major cities David Hundorf, chinaworker.info Vast areas of China have been hit by the most severe air pollution of the year. The onset of winter, with a sharp rise in coal us...

Political motives suspected Socialist Action reporters Socialist Action, and the CWI’s organisation in China, chinaworker.info, suffered a break-in at their office in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, on Tuesday 6 December. Computers and money were stole...

A new stage in the CCP’s internal power struggle unfolds chinaworker.info reporters Xi Jinping has been proclaimed the “core” of China’s ruling dictatorship. The decision, taken at the sixth plenum of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) Central C...

More turmoil ahead for the US, Asia and the world Editorial from Socialist magazine (published by CWI in China) issue 40, Winter 2016 The world is in a state of shock after America’s election. Asian government’s are watching with baited breath ...

Philippines leader seeks to play off superpowers to win economic concessions Vincent Kolo, chinaworker. info The Obama administration’s ‘Asian pivot’, unveiled in 2011 to sustain US power in the East, has suffered a potentially serious setback ...

“Nothing short of a coup” says Labour Party lawmaker Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) The ‘legal’ ruling on 7 November by the Standing Committee of Beijing’s fake parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), over the oath-taking...