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China’s carbon emissions have almost doubled in five years By Sally Tang, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong). This article first appeared in Socialism Today (July/August 2013), the magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales). P...

‘Down with CY Leung’ – but what are the next steps in democracy struggle? Socialist Action reporters This year is the 16th anniversary of Hong Kong passing from British colonial rule to CCP (Chinese Communist Party) rule. Since 2003 when 500,00...

How serious is Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive? Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Liu Zhijun, who spearheaded China’s gargantuan high-speed rail programme, was tried for corruption on June 9 in Beijing. To say Liu, the former Minister of Railwa...

Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests Kai Stein, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) On Monday, 10 June, Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to talk and listen to protesters. Early Tuesd...

Following the launch of the WASP the work is ongoing to, on the one hand, complete the formal registration of the party and, on the other, sink its roots and establish its structures across South Africa. Liv Shange, DSM (CWI South Africa) The m...

Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb Reporters of Offensiv, paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) Husby, a working class suburb of Stockholm, has in recent days been the focus of widespread unrest that ...

Revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have exposed US hypocrisy over cyber-spying Text of Socialist Action (CWI) leaflet distributed at Hong Kong demonstration As many as 1,000 protesters turned out on 15 June for a demonstration ...

Public sector workers take strike action against police violence – For a one day general strike as a next step to bring down the government! Sosyalist Alternatif (CWI Turkey) Reporters KESK, Turkey’s Confederation of Public Workers’ Unions,...

121 killed in one of China’s worst workplace disasters  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The term ‘slaughterhouse’ has acquired a terrible new meaning after the inferno that engulfed the Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant on Monday 3 June. The b...

The 24th anniversary of Beijing’s crackdown draws 150,000 protestors Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI) in Hong Kong Once again on June 4, the anniversary of the brutal military crackdown in Beijing in 1989, tens of thousands of protesters massed i...