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Hong Kong: Occupy Central leader’s comments cast doubt over occupation plan

After NPC ruling democracy activists are perplexed by Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s comments that the strategic part of struggle “should end” Socialist Action reporters Hong Kong politics have been thrown into turmoil by the ruling of China’s National P...

China’s NPC ‘closes the door’ on Hong Kong democracy

“NPC Doesn’t Represent Me!” – Mass resistance against one-party dictatorship is the only way forward! Statement by Socialist Action The National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee’s framework for upcoming elections in Hong Kong delivers...

USA: Ferguson erupts in rage after police kill Michael Brown

Police crackdown turns Missouri community into “war zone” with mass arrests and rioting Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative, USA “YOU took my son away from me. YOU know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate?! YOU kn...

Indonesian election: New face but same old problems

Yet again the numbers refusing to vote exceed votes for the winning party Conor Flynn, Socialist Party On July 9, for only the third time since the collapse of the totalitarian Suharto regime in 1998, Indonesians went to the polls to elect a ne...

Gaza: World outraged by Israeli state terror

Mass action needed to end the slaughter and blockade! Judy Beishon The trapped, blockaded 1.8 million people in the Gaza strip have been viciously bombarded from air, sea and land. The ferocity of the war on this densely populated coastal encla...

End the siege of Gaza

Mass struggle to end Israeli state terror Niall Mulholland, CWI A hail of death has roared down on Gaza for weeks. Working class people worldwide are shocked and angered at images of a Palestinian father carrying his dead children’s body parts ...

China: The great slowdown

 Signs the mammoth property bubble is finally bursting belie Beijing’s upbeat GDP data Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info On July 16 the Chinese government released its GDP figures for the second quarter, causing global financial markets to heave a...

Obama’s TPP: Taking neo-liberalism to a new level

Taiwan’s ‘sunflower movement’ gave a glimpse of mass movement needed to defeat neo-liberal attacks and militarism James Langdon, CWI Taiwan The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is still being negotiated, will be one of the largest trade d...

China: Corruption probe begins against Zhou Yongkang

Former security chief is the most senior scalp to be claimed by Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign chinaworker.info It was officially announced today that former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation for “serious disciplinary violat...

Occupy Central: Strike call shows the way forward

HONG KONG: A city-wide student strike would galvanise mass opposition to the government’s fake electoral reform Dikang, Socialist Action The latest weeks have seen a massive change in the situation in Hong Kong with a sharpening of positions on...

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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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