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Taiwan: Student protests win important victory

Education ministry retreats over increased tuition fees CWI Taiwan Students campaigning against higher tuition fees have won a victory in the Taiwanese capital, Taipei. On the evening of 18 June, after weeks of protests in which CWI Taiwan memb...

Hong Kong: Kidnapped bookseller breaks silence

Explosive first hand account of abduction ordeal exposes the gangster methods of China’s regime Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) Appearing at a Hong Kong press conference more than eight months after his abduction and disappearance a...

Powerful turnout for June 4 vigil

Nativist boycott campaign misfires Socialist Action reporters This year’s June 4 vigil marked the 27th anniversary of the Beijing massacre, which put a bloody end to the heroic 7-week mass movement against the CCP dictatorship. Hong Kong wit...

Brazil: Fall of President Dilma Rousseff unleashes offensive against working class

The impeachment process and historic crisis of the PT (Workers’ Party) André Ferrari, LSR (‘Freedom, Socialism and Revolution’ - CWI Brazil) Brazil is living through the deepest economic and social crisis in its history.Together with this, a ma...

Britain: ‘Brexit’, the European Union and the economy

Remain in EU or leave, workers must fight for socialist change Judy Beishon, Socialist Party England & Wales “Every household will lose £4,300 a year,” proclaim British PM Cameron and Finance Minister Osborne to spread fear and increase the...

June 4: Anniversary of 1989 Beijing massacre

The only way to defeat dictatorship is revolution Dikang, chinaworker.info This year on June 4 it will be 27 years since the horrific massacre of workers and youth in Beijing. The 1989 events, when China was on the brink of revolution, hold a c...

Kazakhstan: Protests erupt

Phoney elections have not brought stability Sergei Skobelev, CWI Russia A tense situation has developed in Kazakhstan. Protests have erupted against the Nazarbayev government only weeks after his ruling party ‘won’ rigged parliamentary election...

Ireland: Water charges suspended

Protest movement and boycott force huge Establishment parties climb down Katia Hancke, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin “What parliament does, the people on the streets can undo”. Mick Barry TD (member of the Irish parliament, the Dáil...

Australia: The truth about Australia’s refugee camps

Hong Kong’s pro-government politicians worship racist, cruel and expensive model David Elliott, Socialist Party (CWI in Australia) I am horrified to hear that the right-wing press and pro-government politicians in Hong Kong support Australia’s ...

Socialist Kshama Sawant Speaks At Bernie Sanders’ Mass Rally

Kshama Sawant is a member of the CWI's US sister organisation, Socialist Alternative. In 2013 she made history becoming the first openly socialist candidate to be elected to Seattle's city council in 100 years. She has also donated money to chinawork...

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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain—Lessons for Fighting the Far Right Today

Marcus Kollbrunner, Liberdade Socialismo e Revolucao (ISA in Brazil) This July we commemorate the 90th anniversary of the revolutionary workers’ u...

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