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China: Journalist Jia Jia arrested as media climate darkens

Repression increasing but splits also emerging within Chinese party-state chinaworker.info reporters Yet another Chinese journalist has surfaced in police custody after mysteriously disappearing. 35-year-old freelance journalist Jia Jia was sei...

US: How can Donald Trump be stopped?

Stopping Trump means building a left political alternative that can unite working people in a common struggle against the corporate establishment Ty Moore and Jesse Lessinger (US Socialist Alternative) Trump must be stopped and we can’t w...

Angola: Solidarity with Nuno Dala hunger strike!

Angolan activist Nuno Dala has been on hunger strike since 10 March 2016 TM, chinaworker.info The black activist from Angola, Nuno Dala, started a hunger strike on 10 March 2016. He is one of 17 political prisoners of the president José Eduardo...

China: Massive job destruction has already begun

China’s rulers are destroying ten times as many coal mining jobs as Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ Mrs Thatcher chinaworker.info reporters A tsunami of job destruction is heading towards heavy industry in China. This is especially in the coal and steel ...

China: Twin meetings, mass layoffs and failed reforms

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...

Mineworkers’ protests shake Chinese leaders

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...

Japan: Five years after the Fukushima disaster

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, ...

Q & A: Riot in Hong Kong

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...

Japan: Social and political unease after “twenty lost years”

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...

Spain: Elections mark shift to the Left

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...

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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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