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Failure to stop stock market plunge has shaken the image of a ‘strong’ regime Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “The big news here isn’t about the Chinese economy; it’s about China’s leaders. Forget everything you’ve heard about their brilliance a...

Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales - formerly the Militant Tendency) edited version Panic is gripping the right-wing clique that dominates the Labour Party, at the possibility of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next Labour leader. Even so...

Chaos erupts again on China’s stock markets Editorial from socialist newspaper Offensiv, weekly of the CWI in Sweden Just when the world’s elite were sounding the ‘all clear’ the Shanghai stock exchange plummeted again. On Monday 27 July Chines...

More than 100 arrests • Human rights lawyers branded “enemies of the state” chinaworker.info reporters Xi Jinping has once again shown his authoritarian credentials with what appears to be a nationally coordinated weekend crackdown on human rig...

Regime adopts panic measures as market crash threatens wider economic recession In this interview, our editor Vincent Kolo gives his view on the recent heavy falls on China’s stock market and its impact on the political situation. How serious i...

Referendum earthquake sees working class boldly defy Troika and Greece’s servile ruling class! Editorial comment by Xekinima (CWI Greece), 6 July 2015 Yesterday’s Greek referendum saw the working class give a powerful reply to the attempts of t...

Billions wiped off share values in June – only the Greek stock market is more volatile Dikang, chinaworker.info “Before leaving the world, I wish to say I concede defeat. With capital of 1.7 million yuan and four-times margin, I bet the entiret...

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...