Popular mood shows anti-austerity socialist policies would win huge support
Nicos Anastasiades, Xekinima (CWI Greece)
On 20 February, Greek negotiators agreed a four month extension of the current bailout programme with its creditors (the Troik...
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...
