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Workers and poor cannot take more calamitous austerity Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist, Issue 859, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) The standoff between the Greek left-led government of SYRIZA and the count...

Growing opposition to conservative establishment Conor Payne, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) The Yes vote to the Marriage Equality referendum on 22 May represented a huge vote in support of equality for LGBTQ people and in support of progress...

Government proposals end in fiasco as Beijing loyalists misjudge voting rules Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong In the end only eight pro-government lawmakers voted for the government’s deeply unpopular electoral reform – branded as “fake...

Former security boss handed life sentence at secret trial Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Xi Jinping finally got his man, but not the way he would have chosen. Zhou Yongkang is the 72-year-old former chief of China’s internal security behemoth. ...

How a community defeated the East-West toll road Chris Dite, Socialist Party (CWI Australia) The East-West toll road was going to be one of the largest infrastructure projects in Australian history. Its defeat – and the Napthine government’s si...

End the monopoly of the ‘moderate’ pan-democrats! Transform June 4 into a platform to mobilise for mass struggle Jo-yen, Socialist Action Hong Kong has been the only city in the whole of China that allows mass demonstrations against the one-par...

Hong Kong government’s political reform proposals meet with mass opposition Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The prolonged battle over Hong Kong’s electoral system has entered a new phase with the territory’s government presenting its final propo...

26th anniversary of the Beijing massacre on June 4, 1989, is also a warning of revolutionary shocks ahead Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The anniversary of June 4, the culmination of the ‘Beijing Spring’ and a day that will always be remembered...

Protesting cabin crew at Hong Kong airport explained their grievances to Socialist Action reporters Nearly 1,000 cabin crew at Cathay Pacific airline staged a two-day sit-in protest at Hong Kong’s International Airport on 19-20 May, in protest...

Growing protests against vicious treatment of local community self-defence activist Tomi Mori Nestora Salgado, an imprisoned community activist in the Mexican state of Guerrero, started a hunger strike on 5 May and concern is now growing for he...