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    China: Li Keqiang’s ‘war against pollution’ is firing blanks

    Jiangsu’s toxic school scandal highlights ecological catastrophe Dahu, chinaworker.info In March 2014 China’s premier Li Keqiang’s declared “war against pollution”. As smog levels in major eastern cities including Beijing went off the charts, t...

    Panama Papers: Hong Kong protest

    “Tax the rich” shout protesters at Mossack Fonseca’s Hong Kong office Socialist Action (CWI i Hong Kong) reporters On Tuesday 12 April, two dozen protesters rallied outside the Hong Kong office of Mossack Fonseca, the firm at the centre of the ...

    Panama Papers: Eight Chinese leaders named

    Massive clampdown by state media censors fearing Iceland-like revolt Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info No government is doing more to hide the damaging revelations contained in the ‘Panama Papers’ than the Chinese dictatorship. The ‘Panama Papers’...

    China unleashes ‘white terror’ against protesting workers

    Wave of repression – over 30 mineworkers arrested after Shuangyashan strike Dahu, chinaworker.info The so-called ‘Shuangyashan incident’ – a six-day strike by around 10,000 coal miners in March – has shaken the dictatorship of the CCP (Chinese ...

    China: Journalist Jia Jia arrested as media climate darkens

    Repression increasing but splits also emerging within Chinese party-state chinaworker.info reporters Yet another Chinese journalist has surfaced in police custody after mysteriously disappearing. 35-year-old freelance journalist Jia Jia was sei...

    China: Massive job destruction has already begun

    China’s rulers are destroying ten times as many coal mining jobs as Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ Mrs Thatcher chinaworker.info reporters A tsunami of job destruction is heading towards heavy industry in China. This is especially in the coal and steel ...

    China: Twin meetings, mass layoffs and failed reforms

    A panel of socialists give their views on what’s happening in China With China’s Lianghui or ‘twin sessions’ – the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) – underway in Beijing, chinaworker.i...

    Mineworkers’ protests shake Chinese leaders

    Thousands march in Heilongjiang province • Oppose job cuts, oppose repression – workers need their own democratic trade union! Dikang, chinaworker.info Thousands of coal miners in the far northeast of China have been on strike for six days, dem...

    Q & A: Riot in Hong Kong

    Where do socialists stand? Dikang, Socialist Action The Mong Kok riot of 8-9 February marked a turning point in the territory’s political situation. Anger and frustration exploded during a Chinese New Year celebration against the hardline polic...

    China: Crisis set to deepen in Year of the Monkey

    As the Year of the Monkey arrives China is facing its worst economic crisis in decades. Editorial from《社会主义者》Socialist magazine issue 36 (February-March 2016) – e-version can be ordered from [email protected] The government’s official data do...

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    Iran: Thousands killed in bloody crackdown

    Could the mass movement have overthrown the regime? Per-Åke Westerlund, Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) (This article was first published o...

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