On 1 December, the “economic cold war” between China’s Xi Jinping and America’s president Trump took two important steps, but in opposite directions
Dikang, chinaworker.info
A very fuzzy truce, devoid of specifics, was declared by the...
The failure of Taiwan’s pro-LGBT referendum does not represent the end of the marriage equality and LGBT movement – we need to rebuild a fighting LGBT movement against further attacks
Luka,
International Socialist Forward (CWI in Taiwan)
T...
Anger as government drops Leung and Cheng prosecutions
Zuo Ren, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
Marchers in Hong Kong on 1 January will protest official corruption and the refusal of the Hong Kong government to pursue legal action agai...
The whereabouts of 24-year-old Jasic activist are still unknown
Luo Ding, chinaworker.info
Yue Xin, who graduated from Peking University last year, has been under secret detention since she was arrested on August 24, along with a...
How can we really defeat the right?
Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative, USA
The midterm elections in the U.S. represented a limited “blue wave” and an overall rejection of Trump by the electorate. Republicans were relieved their losses weren’t worse ...
Hopes for a “miracle in Argentina” but great power tensions are rising
Dikang, chinaworker.info
All eyes are on the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires at the end of November. On the sidelines of the summit, China’s Xi Jinping will meet his US counterp...
Government abandons its campaign against financial risk as private companies queue for a bailout
Editorial from Socialist (社会主义者) magazine issue 50, Winter 2018
The Chinese economic slowdown is intensifying amid the most serious crisis in US-C...
Jasic Support Group branded a “criminal” organisation
chinaworker.info reporters
A new wave of repression is sweeping China’s universities. Security forces have detained more than a dozen student activists since the start of November. All the v...
Against Bolsonaro, defend democratic rights and smash the pension reform!
Liberdad, Socialismo e Revolução (LSR - CWI in Brazil)
The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the second round of the Brazilian elections represents a huge political step backw...
Struggle for marriage equality and against sexual oppression intensifies
Report from International Socialist Forward (CWI in Taiwan)
On 27 October, 137,000 people marched in Taiwan’s capital in the 16th annual Taipei Pride demonstration. The nu...
