Interview with Ahmed Ali Al-Qidani, on behalf of the Total Gas Labour Union of Yemen
The interview below describes the conditions surrounding the recent decision, by over a hundred workers in Yemen, to set up a new trade union organisation. This f...
Setbacks in Malaysia and Pakistan
chinaworker.info reporters
China’s grandiose ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) to construct a 70-nation economic sphere under its leadership is encountering big problems: a pushback by Western powers and resista...
City’s success – built on backs of migrant labour
Garrett Johnstone, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
Hundreds of migrant workers marched in Hong Kong on Sunday, 9 September, to demand a 24.6 percent increase in their monthly wages to HK$5,5...
Need for united struggle by local and foreign-born workers against an unjust system
Jen Left Socialist Action
Carrie Lam’s government has unveiled new attacks on asylum seekers. This is a deliberate attempt to stir up racism. The government w...
Hong Kong’s unpopular government signals there’s worse to come
Hong Kong society under Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is anything other than ‘stable’. The government’s slump in popular support deepens as corruption scandals, a worsenin...
The de facto deportation of FT Asia editor Victor Mallet is a major attack on freedom of speech
Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) reporters
The denial of a work visa for senior Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet is a clear sign that Chi...
Speech brands China as foremost threat to US power
chinaworker.info reporters
Mike Pence, Trump’s Vice President, is hardly regarded as an influential member of the US government. But his speech on 4 October to a right-wing US think tank marked...
Learning the lessons of how democratic rights were won internationally
Adam N. Lee, Stop Repression in Hong Kong
The Stop Repression in Hong Kong campaign was set up in 2017 to coordinate international protests against the worsening political...
Another costly white elephant project with sinister political implications
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
It has been dubbed by some as the “Trojan train” because for the first time it legitimises the presence of Chinese police and security official...
The workers' movement needs to clear the right out of the Labour Party
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) executive committee
There is no rest for the wicked. British Prime Minister Theresa May had to cut short he...
