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Four billionaires ‘created’ every week while workers fight to collect their wages chinaworker.info The world’s biggest annual migration is under way with the majority of China’s 270 million migrant workers making their way home to provinces far...

50 years since the assassination of the black revolutionary Hugh Caffrey February 21 marks 50 years since the assassination of the black revolutionary activist Malcolm X. As the United States is shaken by mass protests in hundreds of cities aga...

Campaigners against government’s water tax are targeted in police crackdown Socialist Action (CWI) reporters A police crackdown in Ireland has so far seen 17 people arrested for taking part in protests against austerity polices and the governme...

Hong Kong court finds employer guilty of torture-like crimes Vincent Kolo, Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong Tuesday 10 February will be remembered as an important date in the long struggle of migrant domestic workers against abuse and discri...

China’s leaders in tough balancing act between growing debt mountain and falling growth rate chinaworker.info China’s central bank (PBOC) announced on Wednesday 4 February a half percentage point cut in banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in...

Right-wing pan democrats floating new “compromise” proposals Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong The demonstration on Sunday 1 February from Hong Kong’s Victoria Park was the first mass mobilisation since the epic Umbrella Revolution. T...

Left parties fail to form government – Syriza goes into coalition with populist right Independent Greeks Interview with Andros Payiatsos from Xekinima (CWI Greece) What is the importance of the Greek election results? We can describe the res...

Former colonial power kowtows to Beijing’s economic muscle Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info After last autumn’s ‘youthquake’ in the shape of the Umbrella Revolution there are few people on the planet who do not know that Hong Kong’s so-called ‘de...

General elections on 25 January Interview with Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI in Greece) At the end of last year a constitutional crisis arose in austerity-ridden Greece with the failure to elect a president. This triggered an early general el...

The Chinese economy has decelerated by 30 percent in the past five years chinaworker.info reporters The release this week of official 2014 GDP data confirmed expectations that China’s economy recorded its slowest pace in 24 years. Most economic...