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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, ...

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 ...

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...

Two years ago, Kshama Sawant won almost 100,000 votes to become the first socialist elected in Seattle for a century Socialist Alternative (US) reporters Since then she has put her stamp on the city, organising key struggles for working people ...