China

Police in Beijing change the charge against five jailed women activists to “disturbing public order” Sally Tang Mei-ching, Socialist Action in Hong Kong “Feminism is not a crime” rang out across Hong Kong’s Times Square, along with chants of “f...

Release the five women activists in China! Statement by Defend Chinese Feminists Campaign Five young women known for their “guerrilla art” style of raising awareness on women’s rights were arrested on the eve of International Women's Day, 8 Mar...

Has the commemoration of International Women’s Day also now been outlawed in China? Sally Tang Mei-Ching, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) The Chinese dictatorship celebrated International Women’s Day by arresting women activists, a move tha...

More than a third of China’s top 100 billionaires sit in the national ‘parliament’ David Hundorf, chinaworker.info China’s ornamental ‘parliament’ the National People’s Congress (NPC) opens its annual session on Thursday in Beijing. The meeting...

Wage gap has widened and sex discrimination in the job market is rampant Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info China Central Television’s gala to celebrate the Lunar New Year is reportedly the most watched television programme in the world. It is broa...

Four billionaires ‘created’ every week while workers fight to collect their wages chinaworker.info The world’s biggest annual migration is under way with the majority of China’s 270 million migrant workers making their way home to provinces far...

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...