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Hong Kong: CY Leung must go! Relaunch school strikes!

Build a bottom-up democratically elected leadership for ‘umbrella movement’ The is the text of a new leaflet from Socialist Action (CWI) for the 10 October demonstrations in Hong Kong The Hong Kong political crisis has taken new dramatic turns....

Hong Kong: Government and police coordinate criminal attacks on ‘Umbrella’ protest movement

Reject fake ‘negotiations’ • Organise democratic defence committees to repel attacks and kick out CY Leung’s brutal government! Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) On Friday 3 October, with protests ranks dipping after six days of occupati...

“No to negotiations with brutal Hong Kong government!”

Reject fake ‘negotiations’ • Build democratic defence committees to repel attacks • Kick out CY Leung’s brutal government Leaflet issued by Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) for October 5 democracy demonstrations There is little doubt the gov...

Two different perspectives on Hong Kong’s mass protests

“Big business is trying to say that we are privileged”  Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. These segments of her interview were posted on her facebook page. Two very different p...

Majority of Chinese expect a war with Japan

Warmongering governments are ratcheting up national tensions in a struggle for regional dominance Dikang, chinaworker.info 53 percent of Chinese respondents and 29 percent of Japanese believe their countries will fight a war in the years ahead....

Hong Kong: Massive anti-government protests after attempted police crackdown

Anger over police violence fuels spontaneous “umbrella revolution” and growing strike movement Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info This was the weekend that changed everything in Hong Kong. Mass popular resistance on the streets, by night and day, w...

Hong Kong: Student activists arrested as police step up repression

For a new, enlarged school strike to fightback against the crackdown on student pro-democracy protests Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) Hong Kong’s week-long student strike in support of a democratic election system reached a climax ...

Ebola virus: Victims of a failed capitalist system

Infectious bodies rotting in the streets... health care facilities overwhelmed... health workers dying in shocking numbers… Jon Dale, Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) Infectious bodies rotting in the streets... health care facilities ...

Hong Kong’s democracy struggle faces major test

Sally Tang Mei-ching of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) says only an all-China mass movement can defeat one-party dictatorship chinaworker.info interviewed Sally Tang Mei-ching about the latest dramatic events in Hong Kong. On 31 August the...

Scottish referendum: Ten days that can shake British capitalism to its foundations

Opinion polls show independence vote is balancing on a knife edge Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI in Scotland) “In the past four weeks support for the union has drained away at an astonishing rate. The Yes campaign has not just in...

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There is nothing temporary about China’s economic crisis

Record youth unemployment, worsening property crash and consumption slump Li Yong, chinaworker.info Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Par...

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