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Japan: Five years after the Fukushima disaster

Former Prime Minister says government was on verge of evacuating 50 million people and declaring martial law Dikang, chinaworker.info The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011 was the second worst nuclear disaster ever, ...

Japan: Social and political unease after “twenty lost years”

Weakness of opposition is Prime Minister Abe’s only strength Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan) Shinzo Abe recently became the longest serving Japanese prime minister in nearly four decades. His Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) governmen...

Spain: Elections mark shift to the Left

No government majority as Podemos partially recovers Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain) The Spanish elections on 20 December registered a fundamental change in the political situation and composition of the parliament. This change has bee...

China fears spread across global markets

Could the financial turmoil of the opening week set the tone for 2016? Per-Åke Westerlund, with additional reporting by Vincent Kolo Global financial markets started 2016 with a bang! A reprise of last summer’s chaotic falls on China’s stock ma...

China’s arrest of Peter Dahlin marks ominous new stage in crackdown

“China is entering a dark night of repression and detentions under Xi Jinping” – Chinese activist in Sweden chinaworker.info On 3 January human rights activist and Swedish citizen Peter Dahlin was taken into detention by Chinese security agents...

China’s ‘red alert’ sums up climate crisis

The world’s biggest driver of climate change facing devastating environmental blowback Dikang, chinaworker.info As negotiators in Paris neared the final days of the UN climate summit in December, the Chinese capital was paralysed by a new pollu...

Paris Summit: Capitalism versus the climate

CWI leaflet to mass protests outside Paris Climate Conference The Paris Climate Conference with representatives of more than 190 governments is meeting with the whole world watching. Mass protests – angry over repeated inaction and betrayals by go...

Indonesia 1965: 50 years since anti-communist massacres

World’s third largest Communist Party crushed in US-backed military coup Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, ...

Horror in Paris

We will not be intimidated ! Statement from Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) Sickening violence has struck Paris once more. Over 120 dead and dozens of injured in places where workers and young people gather at the end of the week (Stade ...

Britain: A political earthquake

Jeremy Corbyn’s victory is a political earthquake that transforms the situation in Britain and poses stark questions for how a new mass socialist force can be built. Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wale...

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North Korea and China: What drives their “unbreakable friendship”? 

Xi Jinping’s June visit to Pyongyang revealed a CCP regime on the backfoot, needing to shore up China’s influence in its geopolitical “backyard” V...

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