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We need system change to halt climate change

A international planned socialist economy could realise emissions neutrality and start to reverse some of the impacts of climate change Helen Pattison, Socialist Party national committee Was there ever a starker example of the destructive ...

Where is the world economy headed in 2019?

The world economy today is worse prepared to cope with a recession than in 2008 Per-Åke Westerlund What awaits the world economy in 2019? Capitalists and speculators around the world hold their breath after stock markets recorded thei...

#ThisIsNotConsent: Victim-blaming in rape trial provokes mass anger

Global opposition to victim blaming in Irish rape trial Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) reporter “Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone?...

Huawei incident – The next phase of US-China conflict?

On 1 December, the “economic cold war” between China’s Xi Jinping and America’s president Trump took two important steps, but in opposite directions Dikang, chinaworker.info A very fuzzy truce, devoid of specifics, was declared by the...

US: Midterm elections weaken Republicans

How can we really defeat the right? Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative, USA The midterm elections in the U.S. represented a limited “blue wave” and an overall rejection of Trump by the electorate. Republicans were relieved their losses weren’t worse ...

US-China trade war – can Xi and Trump back away from conflict?

Hopes for a “miracle in Argentina” but great power tensions are rising Dikang, chinaworker.info All eyes are on the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires at the end of November. On the sidelines of the summit, China’s Xi Jinping will meet his US counterp...

Brazil: The resistance begins now!

Against Bolsonaro, defend democratic rights and smash the pension reform! Liberdad, Socialismo e Revolução (LSR - CWI in Brazil) The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the second round of the Brazilian elections represents a huge political step backw...

Yemen: Cheated energy workers found new trade union

Interview with Ahmed Ali Al-Qidani, on behalf of the Total Gas Labour Union of Yemen The interview below describes the conditions surrounding the recent decision, by over a hundred workers in Yemen, to set up a new trade union organisation. This f...

Bumps on Xi Jinping’s ‘Belt and Road’

Setbacks in Malaysia and Pakistan chinaworker.info reporters China’s grandiose ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) to construct a 70-nation economic sphere under its leadership is encountering big problems: a pushback by Western powers and resista...

US Vice President declares “new Cold War” against China

Speech brands China as foremost threat to US power chinaworker.info reporters Mike Pence, Trump’s Vice President, is hardly regarded as an influential member of the US government. But his speech on 4 October to a right-wing US think tank marked...

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Tibet-Nepal Mudslide: The shocking cost of climate destruction, imperialism and dictatorship

More than one thousand dead in Nepal – no credible death toll yet reported on the Chinese side chinaworker.info reporters The horror of the Hi...

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