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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hong Kong refugee protest camp going strong after 120 days
Socialist Action member Nate Norman interviewed Nino Ibrahim from Togo who has been a refugee in Hong Kong for over 9 years.
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Only organised, united working class can end war and social misery
Niall Mulholland, CWI
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) continues to make territorial gains, controlling much of western Iraq along the border with Syria. The Sunni ...
Battle-lines hardening as masses push for democracy while government steps up repression
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
This year’s ‘7.1’ (July 1) anti-government demonstration in Hong Kong was massive, one of the biggest protests in East Asia ...
