China
Cameron ‘kowtows’ to Chinese dictatorship
Western capitalist leaders put business before lofty ‘principles’
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
David Cameron, like many other Western leaders visiting China, abandoned any pretence of defending ‘democracy’ or ‘human rights’ in order to secure...
China
China’s anti-corruption campaign leads to fewer prosecutions
Xi Jinping’s pledge to catch ‘tigers’ as well as ‘flies’ fails to live up to the media hype
Tommy Zheng, chinaworker.info
Statistics just released from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP), which oversees criminal investigations and prosecu...
China
China’s Third Plenum: More market, more dictatorship
Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy
Editorial statement from chinaworker.info
“More market, less freedom, and much more power to Xi Jinping” – this was the verdict of Beijing-based...
China
Family of China’s ex-premier Wen Jiabao in new financial scandal
China’s censors block more overseas websites to limit fallout from “JPMorgan affair”
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The family of China’s ex-premier Wen Jiabao is once again the focus of a financial scandal – this time concerning fat payouts fr...
China
8-year-old becomes China’s youngest lung cancer victim
China’s toxic air showing no signs of improvement
chinaworker.info
An unnamed 8-year-old Jiangsu girl has been diagnosed with lung cancer, China’s youngest known victim of the disease. Doctors at the hospital treating her blame exposure to air ...
China
Zhejiang: Hospital workers’ strike a call for change
Brutal attacks on doctors and nurses is a sign of a broken healthcare system
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
Several hundred Zhejiang hospital workers in white coats walked out on strike on 28 October. The staff at Wenling’s No. 1 People’s Hospi...
China
China: Terrorism comes to Tiananmen Square
Chinese state steps up repression against Uighurs and other national minorities
chinaworker.info
Monday’s deadly incident in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, one of the most symbolic and heavily policed sites in China, has been classified as a “terr...
China
“Free Wu Guijun” – protests in 13 cities around the world
Support grows in campaign for release of imprisoned workers’ representative
chinaworker.info and CWI reporters
It is now five months since Wu Guijun, a migrant worker employed at the Diweixin Product Factory in Shenzhen, was taken into detentio...
China
China’s super-rich get even richer
Forbes rich list says 400 wealthiest people became 150 billion US dollars wealthier last year
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
“The rich are getting richer,” declared Russell Flannery, the bureau chief for Forbes Shanghai. The US magazine unveile...
China
Yuyao: Mass anger after flood disaster
Thousands protest against CCP officialdom over media lies and inadequate relief efforts • Suppressed CCTV news report says official bungling aggravated flooding
chinaworker.info
The city of Yuyao in Zhejiang province was hit by the region’s wor...
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50 years of CWI/ISA: Our struggle for a fighting revolutionary Marxist International
Arne Johansson, Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden)
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