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Fight for a living wage met by brutal government crackdown David Hundorf, chinaworker.info When we march on International Women’s Day, 2014, special recognition should be accorded the women garment workers of Cambodia who staged a magnificent n...

Campaigning for WASP socialist alternative at May polls By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) As South African President Jacob Zuma, last Friday, announced that the country’s next general elections will be held on May ...

But pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power Ukraine has seen the dramatic overthrow of corrupt and authoritarian president Viktor Yanukovich. But the lack of a working class alternative allowed reactionary forces, with western imperialis...

Kelly Bellin (Socialist Alternative CWI USA) Unless drastic action is taken to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, the planet will heat up by a minimum of 4ºC by 2100, according to the most recent research. That takes the global forecast up t...

Forceful collective voice needed to end poverty and abuse Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore In recent weeks, the deaths of five female child domestic workers has once again highlighted the menace of rampant violence and abus...

Case reveals shocking plight of migrant workers on death row in Saudi Arabia Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong HONG KONG: Around 40 migrant workers and their supporters staged a manifestation outside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Wan Chai t...

Up to 1,000 migrant domestic workers in synchronised dancing and manifestation demanding end to discriminatory laws and violence Socialist Action reporters It rained in Hong Kong on Sunday 9 February, at times heavily. But this did not dampen t...

Corruption, LGBT rights and environmental destruction in focus as ‘Putin’s Games’ open Rob Jones, Moscow When the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2014 winter Olympics to the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, eyebrows were raised at...

Working class and rural poor need party of their own Ravichandran, CWI Malaysia The present political crisis in Thailand has been ongoing since the 2006 military coup which ousted Thaksin Shinawat - the billionaire tycoon turned politician. It ...

Violent attack from neo-nazis gets massive reply Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) reporters The demonstration in Kärrtorp, south Stockholm, on Sunday 22 December was the largest anti-racist demonstration ever in Sweden. 20,000 gath...