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Occupations in Wan Chai and Central against government’s corrupt outsourcing system Interview with Refugee Union chairman Raymond by Bas Solomon of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) Refugees in Hong Kong are united, and refuse to be ignored a...

Hong Kong and Indonesian governments should also stand trial over migrant workers’ rights Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong The return of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih to Hong Kong is a major event for the city’s 330,000 migrant domestic worker...

40,000 workers paralyse production at world’s largest sports shoe maker as labour disputes soar in China chinaworker.info reporters Workers at six out of ten factories in Dongguan owned by Taiwanese multinational Yue Yuen have been on strike fo...

China’s dictatorship is haunted by the prospect of a new mass revolt Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info On 15 April 1989 Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, died of a heart attack. This became the start signal ...

What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’? Taiwan has witnessed an unprecedented mass protest movement since 18 March when around 200 students occupied the main chamber of the Legislative Yuan (parliament) to stop the ratification ...

Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down CWI reporters in Taipei This was the biggest demonstration in Taiwan’s history. In a clear sign that the island’s mass protest movement is gaining rather than losi...

Tensions between powers worsen Niall Mulholland, CWI Crimea’s 16 March referendum saw an overwhelming majority vote in favour of joining Russia. According to the claimed official result, 96.77% voted ‘for’ integration and turnout was 83.1%. Ten...

Thursday 18th September is referendum day in Scotland. Discussions are taking place in workplaces, colleges, schools and communities all across the country. The run-up to September will be dominated by debate on how to vote and what might an independ...

Down with undemocratic Kuomintang rule – for a Taiwan-wide student strike as the next step! Sally Tang Mei-ching in Taipei and Vincent Kolo Tens of thousands of protesters have filled the streets around the occupied Taiwanese legislature for th...

Sexism, discriminatory laws and poverty hit women hard in China’s richest city Sally Tang Mei-ching and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info For the fourth year in a row Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) took the initiative to a public rally on In...