Trump ramps up tariffs against China and rocks global stock markets
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
President Trump’s decision to increase punitive
tariffs against China from one minute past midnight on Friday, 10 May, marks a
dramatic esca...
The government’s prosecution of the “Occupy 9” was a show trial, the aim of which is to criminalise the democracy struggle in Hong Kong
Adam N. Lee, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
The trial and sentencing, four years after the events, of nine ...
100th anniversary of May Fourth Movement – The Chinese dictatorship has many reasons to fear that once again China could be on the threshold of mass protests by radicalised youth and students, which could ignite a bigger movement among the working c...
130,000 march on April 28 – now we need a one-day political strike!
Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
The mass turnout of 130,000 people on Sunday April 28 against the government’s repressive agenda has turned Hong Kong's political situ...
Carrie Lam’s government faces its biggest challenges since taking office
Editorial from Socialist (社会主义者) magazine issue 51, Spring 2019
Increased authoritarian rule and a political crackdown in Hong Kong have not translated into stable g...
What’s behind the newfound indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities?
chinaworker.info reporters
After decades of silence governments in Washington, Berlin, London, Ottawa and elsewhere ha...
Hong
Kong faces a housing emergency
Adam N Lee, Socialist Action
Year after year Hong Kong holds the number
one ranking for the most unaffordable housing in the world.
For young people the situation is terrible.
Three out of every four ...
A thousand students from two dozen Hong Kong schools support global school strike
Dikang, Socialist Action
“We want action!” was the most popular demand when around a thousand school students supported by teachers and parents flooded out of Hong Kon...
Global feminist protests against sexual violence and gender discrimination
International Women’s Day statement by Socialist Action
Once again we are marching alongside socialist and working class feminists around the world to turn Internat...
Migrant women workers protest against modern day slavery
Socialist Action reporters (CWI in Hong Kong)
“My first time as a domestic worker in Hong Kong was really bad, I got no days off and the employer even confiscated my mobile phone,” says Mica,...
