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A panel of socialists give their views on what’s happening in China With China’s Lianghui or ‘twin sessions’ – the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) – underway in Beijing, chinaworker.i...

Thousands march in Heilongjiang province • Oppose job cuts, oppose repression – workers need their own democratic trade union! Dikang, chinaworker.info Thousands of coal miners in the far northeast of China have been on strike for six days, dem...

Former Prime Minister says government was on verge of evacuating 50 million people and declaring martial law Dikang, chinaworker.info The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011 was the second worst nuclear disaster ever, ...

Where do socialists stand? Dikang, Socialist Action The Mong Kok riot of 8-9 February marked a turning point in the territory’s political situation. Anger and frustration exploded during a Chinese New Year celebration against the hardline polic...

Weakness of opposition is Prime Minister Abe’s only strength Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan) Shinzo Abe recently became the longest serving Japanese prime minister in nearly four decades. His Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) governmen...

No government majority as Podemos partially recovers Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Spain) The Spanish elections on 20 December registered a fundamental change in the political situation and composition of the parliament. This change has bee...

Police violence must be condemned Socialist Action eyewitness report Brutal policing caused a riot in the downtown district of Mong Kok on the first night of the Chinese New Year, 8 February. Protesters had gathered to defend street food hawker...

As the Year of the Monkey arrives China is facing its worst economic crisis in decades. Editorial from《社会主义者》Socialist magazine issue 36 (February-March 2016) – e-version can be ordered from [email protected] The government’s official data do...

There was a dramatic escalation in the number of workers’ struggles in China last year, especially in the final months chinaworker.info reporters There were 2,774 strikes and worker protests for the year as a whole, which is double the 1,379 to...

Could the financial turmoil of the opening week set the tone for 2016? Per-Åke Westerlund, with additional reporting by Vincent Kolo Global financial markets started 2016 with a bang! A reprise of last summer’s chaotic falls on China’s stock ma...