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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Learning the lessons of how democratic rights were won internationally
Adam N. Lee, Stop Repression in Hong Kong
The Stop Repression in Hong Kong campaign was set up in 2017 to coordinate international protests against the worsening political...
The workers' movement needs to clear the right out of the Labour Party
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) executive committee
There is no rest for the wicked. British Prime Minister Theresa May had to cut short he...
Banning of “separatist” group is part of a wider agenda to attack democratic rights
Dikang, Socialist Action
With his speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) Andy Chan Ho-tin emerged as an attention seeker who just won the ‘jackpot’....
