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US-China trade war – can Xi and Trump back away from conflict?

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...

China’s economy: Xi Jinping’s u-turn

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...

China: New wave of repression against left student activists

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...

Brazil: The resistance begins now!

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...

Taiwan Pride: 137,000 people marching to support pro-LGBT referendum

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...

Yemen: Cheated energy workers found new trade union

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...

Bumps on Xi Jinping’s ‘Belt and Road’

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...

Hong Kong’s migrant domestic workers – up against an unjust racist system

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...

Hong Kong: Protest new attacks on refugees

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...

Carrie Lam’s policy address: “Pouring money into the sea”

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...

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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster

March 11, 2026 Leon Pinsky, Sociaist Alternative (ISA in the US) A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Part...

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