Coordinated arrests of labour activists in Guangdong province as workers’ struggles multiply
chinaworker.info reporters
The recent arrests of labour and NGO activists in Guangdong province – “the world’s factory” – is an ominous sign. It is the...
More than 100 join Hong Kong protest on International Human Rights Day
Sue Sparks, reprinted with kind permission of Hong Kong Free Press
More than a hundred people gathered at the Western District Police Station in Sai Ying Pun on 9 December, ...
The world’s biggest driver of climate change facing devastating environmental blowback
Dikang, chinaworker.info
As negotiators in Paris neared the final days of the UN climate summit in December, the Chinese capital was paralysed by a new pollu...
World’s third largest Communist Party crushed in US-backed military coup
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, ...
Neoliberalism on steroids – TPP is also a geopolitical weapon for US and Japanese capitalism against China
David Hundorf, chinaworker.info
At late night negotiations in Atlanta the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was finally agreed between the ...
Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China
Dikang, chinaworker.info
On 10-11 October a youthful and extremely important meeting took place in Hong Kong. This was the second congress of the Committee f...
Mainland media have launched an unprecedented attack on Asia’s second richest billionaire Li Ka-shing
chinaworker.info
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, worth US$32 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has come under fire for div...
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) launched on 5 October is a secretive pro-big business pact
The agreement reached on 5 October in Atlanta between the Obama administration and representatives of 11 other countries sees the launch of the Trans-Pacifi...
Sino-US tensions increasing as China’s economy stumbles
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
China’s president Xi Jinping began his week-long visit to the United States, touching down in Seattle on Tuesday 22 September, where he met with top CEOs inc...
Non-payment of wages is behind three quarters of China’s 1,600 strikes this year
David Hundorf, chinaworker.info
A strike atSinopacific’s shipyard in Jiangsu’s Dayang city entered its third day, with around one-fifth of the 5,000-strong workfor...
