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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...

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...