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Hong Kong: ‘One Billion Rising’ protest for migrant rights

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...

Sochi winter Olympics – breaking all records!

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...

Thailand: Prolonged political crisis

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 ...

Sweden: 20,000 on anti-fascist demonstration

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...

Ariel Sharon: a brutal architect of monstrous crimes

The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel/Palestine) The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died. Ariel Sharon, once known as the “father of Israeli settlements”, died after eight ye...

Cameron ‘kowtows’ to Chinese dictatorship

Western capitalist leaders put business before lofty ‘principles’ Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info David Cameron, like many other Western leaders visiting China, abandoned any pretence of defending ‘democracy’ or ‘human rights’ in order to secure...

South Africa: Mandela’s legacy

Heroically leading ANC to power but struggle tragically into dead end Weizmann Hamilton and Thamsanqa Dumezweni, DSM (CWI South Africa) The Democratic Socialist Movement offers condolences to the Mandela family and all those in South Africa and...

Venezuela: a deepening crisis

The Venezuelan economy faces runaway inflation, speculation and severe food shortages. At the same time, capitalist forces are increasingly emboldened by the growing divisions in the government. Johan Rivas, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Venezuel...

US: Victory for socialist in Seattle!

“Earth-shattering consequences” in the US and internationally An interview with Kshama Sawant. Sarah Wrack, from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales) The evening of 15 November will go down as marking an ...

Family of China’s ex-premier Wen Jiabao in new financial scandal

China’s censors block more overseas websites to limit fallout from “JPMorgan affair” Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The family of China’s ex-premier Wen Jiabao is once again the focus of a financial scandal – this time concerning fat payouts fr...

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Tibet-Nepal Mudslide: The shocking cost of climate destruction, imperialism and dictatorship

More than one thousand dead in Nepal – no credible death toll yet reported on the Chinese side chinaworker.info reporters The horror of the Hi...

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