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Defend freedom of press! Socialist Action Reporters On Saturday 19 December, a protest was held in Hong Kong outside South China Morning Post offices against the takeover of the territories major English language newspaper by Alibaba, the Chine...

Chinese regime is intensifying censorship and repression Dahu, chinaworker.info A crowd outside the Beijing court shouted “freedom of speech, freedom of speech”. Security guards wearing smiley masks manhandled protesters, foreign reporters and ...

Coordinated arrests of labour activists in Guangdong province as workers’ struggles multiply chinaworker.info reporters The recent arrests of labour and NGO activists in Guangdong province – “the world’s factory” – is an ominous sign. It is the...

More than 100 join Hong Kong protest on International Human Rights Day Sue Sparks, reprinted with kind permission of Hong Kong Free Press More than a hundred people gathered at the Western District Police Station in Sai Ying Pun on 9 December, ...

The world’s biggest driver of climate change facing devastating environmental blowback Dikang, chinaworker.info As negotiators in Paris neared the final days of the UN climate summit in December, the Chinese capital was paralysed by a new pollu...

CWI leaflet to mass protests outside Paris Climate Conference The Paris Climate Conference with representatives of more than 190 governments is meeting with the whole world watching. Mass protests – angry over repeated inaction and betrayals by go...

Socialist Action’s Sally Tang Mei-ching lifts opposition vote to 33 percent Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “We are very pleased with our election campaign and our vote, with one in three voters supporting us,” says Sally Tang Mei-ching. She sto...

World’s third largest Communist Party crushed in US-backed military coup Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, ...

We will not be intimidated ! Statement from Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) Sickening violence has struck Paris once more. Over 120 dead and dozens of injured in places where workers and young people gather at the end of the week (Stade ...

Jeremy Corbyn’s victory is a political earthquake that transforms the situation in Britain and poses stark questions for how a new mass socialist force can be built. Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wale...