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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...

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...

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Tibet-Nepal Mudslide: The shocking cost of climate destruction, imperialism and dictatorship

More than one thousand dead in Nepal – no credible death toll yet reported on the Chinese side chinaworker.info reporters The horror of the Hi...

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