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International Women’s Day: “Solidarity with global mass protests and women’s strikes” Socialist Action reporters Over 70 attended the Socialist Action (CWI) candle-lit demonstration in Hong Kong for International Women’s Day, 8 March. Protester...

Women strike in over 50 countries against oppression Socialist Action statement for this evening’s demonstration in Central International Women’s Day, March 8th, this year will be the biggest ever. Millions around the world will march and str...

Pan-democrats sink to new low by supporting “lesser evil” John Tsang Dikang, Socialist Action Hong Kong’s Chief Executive election is a five-yearly political farce. It has been described as the world’s most bizarre election. Just 1,194 electors...

Welfare contractor ISS imposes new rent policy Socialist Action reporters Around 100 refugees and supporters protested at the headquarters of ISS-HK on 13 February, against a new rent policy that makes it more difficult for refugees to find a h...

Regime fears calls for ‘International Women’s Strike’ could attract support even in China Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info A leading feminist blog account with 80,000 followers has been closed down in China for voicing criticism of US president Do...

Lessons for today’s struggles against dictatorship Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info In the February Revolution of 1917, (March in today’s calendar) the centuries-old system of Russian tsarism came crashing down. It was the working class especially...

Round One to Xi Jinping? Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The deepening crisis in Washington over the resignation of Michael Flynn and the Trump administration’s alleged contacts with Russian intelligence, has overshadowed the significance of the...

February 8 marks the anniversary of the Mong Kok riot Adam N. Lee, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) The first riot in Hong Kong for 50 years is yet another monument to ‘CY’ Leung Chun-ying’s disastrous misrule. The riot on February 8 last ye...

Anti-Trump protests are breaking all records Editorial from Socialist《社會主義者》magazine (issue 41), bi-monthly Chinese language magazine produced by CWI supporters Donald Trump’s presidency is already historic but not for the reasons he imagined. ...

Jail terms of up to ten years imposed on nine protesters  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The ‘Wukan model’, once held up as a beacon of local democracy under a totalitarian state, has well and truly been killed off by the Chinese dictatorship (...