China

China’s leaders in tough balancing act between growing debt mountain and falling growth rate chinaworker.info China’s central bank (PBOC) announced on Wednesday 4 February a half percentage point cut in banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in...

The Chinese economy has decelerated by 30 percent in the past five years chinaworker.info reporters The release this week of official 2014 GDP data confirmed expectations that China’s economy recorded its slowest pace in 24 years. Most economic...

A fighting democratic movement must be created to continue and build upon this historic “first round”  Editorial from Socialist magazine《社會主義者》issue 30 (Jan-Feb 2015) After almost three months that transformed the outlook of hundreds of thousan...

China’s economic slowdown already being felt throughout world economy Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “The most important number in the world, for the past 30 years and next five years, is China’s growth rate,” declared BBC Economics Editor Robe...

Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ and democracy protests in Hong Kong fuel massive rejection of ruling party Vincent Kolo and CWI Taiwan reporters The term “political earthquake” has been widely used to describe Taiwan’s mayoral and local elections...

Mass struggle needs genuine internal democracy and a fighting working class programme to defeat the CCP dictatorship chinaworker.info The epic ‘Umbrella Revolution’ has raged for seven weeks, now holding out for longer even than the historic Ti...

The democracy movement in Hong Kong has shaken the Beijing regime and Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) has played an active role in this movement. The socialist weekly newspaper Offensiv in Sweden talked to Dikang of Socialist Action about these even...

Build a bottom-up democratically elected leadership for ‘umbrella movement’ The is the text of a new leaflet from Socialist Action (CWI) for the 10 October demonstrations in Hong Kong The Hong Kong political crisis has taken new dramatic turns....

Reject fake ‘negotiations’ • Build democratic defence committees to repel attacks • Kick out CY Leung’s brutal government Leaflet issued by Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) for October 5 democracy demonstrations There is little doubt the gov...

Warmongering governments are ratcheting up national tensions in a struggle for regional dominance Dikang, chinaworker.info 53 percent of Chinese respondents and 29 percent of Japanese believe their countries will fight a war in the years ahead....