China

Decision is not ‘radical’ but a further step backwards from mass anti-government struggle Dikang, Socialist Action in Hong Kong The Hong Kong Federation of Students has officially withdrawn from the group that organises the annual Hong Kong (Vi...

Chinese regime cranks up stimulus spending to 2009 levels – a sign of confidence or desperation? This article is an abridged version of the Editorial in Socialist magazine (CWI Chinese language journal《社會主義者》) issue 37, May-June 2016 In China, ...

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...

“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 ...

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’...

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 ...

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...