Sudden chaotic exit from hardline pandemic controls leaves cities grappling with explosive COVID surge
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
In response to a wave of anti-government protests in late November the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has pivoted abru...
Read below for an update on where the movement stands in China, followed by a selection of reports from solidarity demonstrations across the world and ISA’s involvement.
Elan Axelbank, Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales & Scotland)
In...
Free the arrested • End Zero Covid • End dictatorship!
Leaflet from chinaworker.info for global solidarity demos with China's mass protests
The mass protests of November 2022 have changed China. Whatever happens in coming weeks, everybody now knows...
Most significant protests since the 1989 Democracy Movement
Li Yong and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
At the time of writing police are massing in Chinese cities in an effort to stamp out the recent protest wave. Protests continue at universities....
On 25 November protesters gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in London in solidarity with the imprisoned socialist labour activist Chai Xiaoming. Around 30 protesters chanted, “Free Chai Xiaoming!” and “Solidarity with Chinese socialists and Ja...
Socialist Chai Xiaoming has spent almost four years in prison awaiting sentence
chinaworker.info reporters
Socialist labour activist Chai Xiaoming stands accused of “inciting subversion of state power”. The verdict against the 46-year-old will be h...
Li Ruijun’s arthouse film became a surprise hit with Chinese audiences until banned by censors on the eve of the CCP’s 20th Congress
Adam N Lee, chinaworker.info
Since its release in July, the low-budget arthouse film ‘Return to Dust’ (Yin Ru Chen ...
The killing of a young Kurdish woman in Iran has triggered a massive wave of upheaval, protests and strikes, threatening the whole regime.
Nina Mo, ISA in Austria
(This article was firstly published on 2 October, and last edited on 12 October 2022)...
At the Communist Party’s 20th Congress dictator Xi Jinping made a clean sweep of the party-state’s top organs including the once powerful Standing Committee, but does the purge translate into greater strength or stability?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker....
Paul Gerrard, Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales and Scotland)
On Sunday 16 October a peaceful protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Manchester was attacked by consulate staff, some wearing motorcycle helmets and body armour. One of the...
