What’s behind the growing support for Maoism and other left ideas among young people?
chinaworker.info reporters
There has been a resurgence of left ideologies in China in recent years, despite the regime’s periodic crackdowns on left websites ...
Pending case against former security czar Zhou Yongkang risks dangerous splits in CCP
Editorial from Socialist《社会主义者》magazine (issue 26)
As Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign gathers momentum it is clear the power struggle within China’s rul...
Beijing finds sports shoe manufacturer guilty of “wrongdoing” while local government, police and company bosses coordinate a crackdown
chinworker.info reporters
It is one of the biggest strikes in China for decades and has attracted internation...
40,000 workers paralyse production at world’s largest sports shoe maker as labour disputes soar in China
chinaworker.info reporters
Workers at six out of ten factories in Dongguan owned by Taiwanese multinational Yue Yuen have been on strike fo...
China’s dictatorship is haunted by the prospect of a new mass revolt
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
On 15 April 1989 Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, died of a heart attack. This became the start signal ...
Down with undemocratic Kuomintang rule – for a Taiwan-wide student strike as the next step!
Sally Tang Mei-ching in Taipei and Vincent Kolo
Tens of thousands of protesters have filled the streets around the occupied Taiwanese legislature for th...
Shock and disbelief as 29 are hacked to death at railway station
Editorial statement, chinaworker.info
The massacre at Kunming’s railway station on March 1 –known as the ‘3.1 incident’ – must rank as one of the most shocking acts of terrorism i...
Local government debt has soared but Beijing’s attempt to curb runaway credit misfires again
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
An end-of year scramble for funds by financial institutions drove up interbank lending rates to levels not seen since th...
Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
According to international media reports, including articles by Reuters and The New York Times, former Polit...
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...
