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Two years ago, Kshama Sawant won almost 100,000 votes to become the first socialist elected in Seattle for a century Socialist Alternative (US) reporters Since then she has put her stamp on the city, organising key struggles for working people ...

Neoliberalism on steroids – TPP is also a geopolitical weapon for US and Japanese capitalism against China David Hundorf, chinaworker.info At late night negotiations in Atlanta the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was finally agreed between the ...

Interview with Sally Tang Mei-ching, Socialist Action’s candidate for the Sham Shui Po District Council in Pak Tin ward Dikang, Socialist Action Hong Kong goes to the polls on 22 November to elect over 400 councillors in 18 District Councils.  ...

The biggest union in Northern Ireland, NIPSA (Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance), will elect a new General Secretary in November Socialist Party reporters Patrick Mulholland, a well know socialist, is standing with nominations from 40 ...

Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China Dikang, chinaworker.info On 10-11 October a youthful and extremely important meeting took place in Hong Kong. This was the second congress of the Committee f...

Mainland media have launched an unprecedented attack on Asia’s second richest billionaire Li Ka-shing chinaworker.info Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, worth US$32 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index,  has come under fire for div...

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) launched on 5 October is a secretive pro-big business pact The agreement reached on 5 October in Atlanta between the Obama administration and representatives of 11 other countries sees the launch of the Trans-Pacifi...

Lessons must be learned in order to rebuild an unstoppable democracy movement Socialist Action reporters Today it is one year since a vicious and unprecedented police tear gas attack triggered the 'Umbrella Revolution'. This was the biggest mas...

Socialist Kshama Sawant leads protest “in solidarity with Chinese workers” chinaworker.info reporters On 23 September, during the visit of president Xi Jinping, Seattle council member Kshama Sawant of Socialist Alternative (CWI), led a prot...

Sino-US tensions increasing as China’s economy stumbles Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info China’s president Xi Jinping began his week-long visit to the United States, touching down in Seattle on Tuesday 22 September, where he met with top CEOs inc...