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Shenzhen factory workers’ representative held by police for five months chinaworker.info On Wednesday 23 October, Wu Guijun, a migrant worker in Shenzhen, will have been held in police detention for five months. Wu has only very recently been f...

Over 100 workers at McDonald's supplier fighting for equal pay and conditions chinaworker.info GUANGZHOU Over 100 migrant workers at Hong Kong-owned Luen Shing Industries Limited have been in dispute with the company since August. According to ...

Workers’ representatives held in police cells for weeks – protest against the criminalisation of workers’ struggle chinaworker.info A chorus of protests grows louder over the extra-legal detention of Shenzhen workers’ representative Wu Guij...

Regime risks internal earthquake, as power struggle sharpens Sally Tang Mei-Ching and Vincent Kolo The outcome of the five-day trial of former top Chinese politician Bo Xilai in August wasn’t what Chinese leaders intended – in that it further e...

Shi Tao’s case exposes multinational IT-companies’ cooperation with Chinese regime chinaworker.info China has released jailed poet and author Shi Tao, who was imprisoned in 2005 based on information provided by US internet giant Yahoo. The case...

New leaders facing economic and political crisis Pasha, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) China has entered a period of crisis. Even its leaders recognise this. The new president, Xi Jinping, admitted that the current crisis could threaten the C...

Capitalists commentators applaud ‘Liconomics’ but its effects on the global economy can be disastrous chinaworker.info “China has basically said goodbye to 8 percent GDP growth,” declared Ha Jiming, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs in China, recen...

Credit explosion “unprecedented in modern world history” behind financial volatility Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info World financial markets have been rocked again in recent days. First came the US Fed’s announcement last Wednesday (19 June) tha...

China’s carbon emissions have almost doubled in five years By Sally Tang, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong). This article first appeared in Socialism Today (July/August 2013), the magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales). P...

How serious is Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive? Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Liu Zhijun, who spearheaded China’s gargantuan high-speed rail programme, was tried for corruption on June 9 in Beijing. To say Liu, the former Minister of Railwa...