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CWI’s Zhang Shujie forced to flee China
Repression against left activists increasing in China
By CWI reporters
The ongoing and intensifying state crackdown in China, increasingly targeting left activists and critics, is highlighted by the case of 24-year old Zhang Shujie, a supporter...
China
China’s rulers shaken by youthful protests in Inner Mongolia
Thousands of farmers and students join protest marches in at least six cities
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
At the time of writing it seems China’s rulers have succeeded in quelling a daring weeklong wave of street protests in Inner Mongolia. ...
China
China: Lessons of 1989 mass democracy movement
New foreword to the traditional Chinese edition of ‘Tiananmen 1989 – Seven Weeks That Shook The World’
Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong)
This book about the bloody Beijing massacre of June 4, 1989, was first published in simplified Chine...
China
Xinjiang: Brutal policing triggers deadly riot
140 killed and 800 injured in worst ethnic clashes for decades in China’s Muslim-majority region
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.infoA peaceful sit-down protest in the capital city Ürümqi by around 300 Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking minority that is the dom...
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“6/4” (Tiananmen massacre) 20 years on: The struggle continues!
China’s government is more afraid than ever of mass struggle
The 20th anniversary of the mass movement that ended in the Beijing massacre shows that the spirit of struggle is alive in China and Hong Kong. Despite the best efforts of the Chines...
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Tiananmen 1989 and the working class
Nothing alarmed the CCP dictatorship more than the movement of the working class aroused to action by the student-led democracy protests
Vincent Kolo, from the book Tiananmen 1989: Seven Weeks That Shook the World
The great significance of the ...
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The Olympic protests and nationalism – a Marxist response
In a dazzling pre-Olympic balancing act, the Chinese regime has announced talks with the ‘evil’ Dalai Lama side
chinaworker.infoAt the same time state media is booming out ‘friendship’ towards France and using police measures to extinguish anti-West...
China
Tibet and the National Question
This article on the national question in Tibet and China was first published on 22 September 2005
Tibet – the “rooftop of the world” – was occupied by the People’s Liberation Army in 1950 and later incorporated into People’s Republic of China as t...
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Tibet erupts!
Brutal crackdown by Beijing regime meets muted reaction from foreign governments
Vincent Kolo, Hong KongThousands of paramilitary police and soldiers have been deployed in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, after the most serious protests against Chinese r...
China
The national question in Xinjiang
Despite rapid economic growth, national and religious tensions are rising in Xinjiang in north-western China. The CWI’s standpoint on this important issue has been called into question by some individuals within the Chinese left – this article explai...
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“China’s rise” – an outdated view
New Cold War: Capitalist East and West are both in decline
Editorial, issue 75 of Socialist magazine (China magazine published by ISA in China, Hong ...
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