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’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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There was a dramatic escalation in the number of workers’ struggles in China last year, especially in the final months
chinaworker.info reporters
There were 2,774 strikes and worker protests for the year as a whole, which is double the 1,379 to...
Could the financial turmoil of the opening week set the tone for 2016?
Per-Åke Westerlund, with additional reporting by Vincent Kolo
Global financial markets started 2016 with a bang! A reprise of last summer’s chaotic falls on China’s stock ma...
From Shenzhen to Tianjin – death and destruction caused by corruption, poor oversight and the blind chase for profit
chinaworker.info reporters
The December landslide that killed at least seven people in Shenzhen capped a year of deadly acciden...
“China is entering a dark night of repression and detentions under Xi Jinping” – Chinese activist in Sweden
chinaworker.info
On 3 January human rights activist and Swedish citizen Peter Dahlin was taken into detention by Chinese security agents...
This new bubble underscores the extremely parasitic nature of capitalism and the need for a socialist alternative.
Marcus Kollbrunner, Liberdade, Soc...
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