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Attempt to silence Gui Minhai’s daughter exposes collusion between Swedish and Chinese authorities Dikang, chinaworker.info Sweden’s ambassador to China, Anna Lindstedt, has been recalled in a political scandal involving Chinese dissident Gui Minhai....

First political conference by an international socialist organisation since 1949 Reports by Dikang and Triet Tran An enthusiastic rendition of the ‘Internationale’ closed the very successful two-day Marxist School organised by Internationa...

The situation in Venezuela has reached a critical point Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in Venezuela) Executive Committee The new leader of the Venezuelan right and far right, Juan Guaidó, (recently elected president of the counterrevolu...

A international planned socialist economy could realise emissions neutrality and start to reverse some of the impacts of climate change Helen Pattison, Socialist Party national committee Was there ever a starker example of the destructive ...

Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party This article by Vincent Kolo was first published on chinaworker.info in October 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Re...

The world economy today is worse prepared to cope with a recession than in 2008 Per-Åke Westerlund What awaits the world economy in 2019? Capitalists and speculators around the world hold their breath after stock markets recorded thei...

Global opposition to victim blaming in Irish rape trial Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) reporter “Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone?...

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...