China
China: Yahoo-linked dissident freed after 8 years in jail
Shi Tao’s case exposes multinational IT-companies’ cooperation with Chinese regime
chinaworker.info
China has released jailed poet and author Shi Tao, who was imprisoned in 2005 based on information provided by US internet giant Yahoo. The case...
China
China: Regime at a crossroads
New leaders facing economic and political crisis
Pasha, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong)
China has entered a period of crisis. Even its leaders recognise this. The new president, Xi Jinping, admitted that the current crisis could threaten the C...
International
Egypt: Hundreds dead as military tries to consolidate power in blood
Increasing sectarianism threatens revolution’s future - Workers’ independent action urgently needed
Robert Bechert, CWI
Millions across the world, and especially in the Middle East, have been shocked by the killing of hundreds of mainly unarmed...
Taiwan
Taiwan: Another trade pact to benefit big business
Capitalist ‘free trade’ deals mean lower wages and job insecurity on both sides of the Strait
James Langdon, CWI Taiwan
Taiwan and China have signed a services trade agreement, opening up various industries to cross-strait investment. Like 2010...
International
South Africa: Limpopo WASP Launch
Workers, Communities and trade unionists unify their struggle
Meschak Komani, first published by WASP
On Wednesday August 3rd the Sefateng Stadium in Atok was filled with revolutionary worker songs. More than 700 people had come to the stadiu...
International
Sri Lanka: Fatal shootings underline extent of country’s militarisation
United Socialist Party makes election challenge
USP (CWI in Sri Lanka) statement
On the evening of 1 August, government troops opened fire on a peaceful protest against the poisoning of water supplies in Waliweriya, 20 miles north of Sri Lanka’...
International
Seattle, US: Socialist Kshama Sawant wins 33%
Seattle Gives Green Light to Oust Richard Conlin from City Hall
Kshama Sawant Campaign for Seattle City Council / Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)
Seattle voters sent a clear message to an out-of-touch political establishment ...
International
CWI Summer School: New uprisings hit Latin America
Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and Latin America
Laura Fitzgerald, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
Johan Rivas, CWI activist in Venezuela, introduced a discussion on Latin America at this year’s CWI Summer School. He noted the opening of a new perio...
International
Sweden: The reality of Swedish neo-liberalism
Sweden once had a reputation as some kind of ‘social-democratic model’ with far-reaching public services and social support. But that has been dismantled by two decades of attacks – what the Economist magazine calls a ‘silent revolution’
Per Olsso...
International
Egypt: One of the biggest mass movements in history prompts military take-over
The revolution must continue! For a government of workers and the poor!
Aysha Zaki, CWI
During the last week of tumultous events in Egypt, Aysha Zaki has discussed with socialist opposition activists in Cairo about the mass movement to the rule...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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