Angolan activist Nuno Dala has been on hunger strike since 10 March 2016
TM, chinaworker.info
The black activist from Angola, Nuno Dala, started a hunger strike on 10 March 2016. He is one of 17 political prisoners of the president José Eduardo...
China’s rulers are destroying ten times as many coal mining jobs as Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ Mrs Thatcher
chinaworker.info reporters
A tsunami of job destruction is heading towards heavy industry in China. This is especially in the coal and steel ...
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, ...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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, ...
