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Open letter from 70 intellectuals warns of “violent revolution” without a change of course chinaworker.info Warnings of revolution in China are coming thick and fast as Xi Jinping and his new leadership team take the helm. An open letter callin...

Marchers demand Chief Executive CY Leung’s resignation and one person one vote Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) An estimated 130,000 joined protest marches on 1 January against Hong Kong’s leader Leung Chun-ying, also known as “CY”. ...

How to decipher changes at the top and the new CCP leadership’s emphasis on “deeper reform”? Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Xi Jinping, the new general secretary of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), has lost no time establishing an image as a ...

Election sees big defeat for incumbent Democratic Party chinaworker.info Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) swept the Japanese election on 16 December, gaining 294 seats in the 480 seat lower house. Together with its junior coali...

Only mass struggle against capitalism and for safe clean alternatives can avert a climate catastrophe This year's climate negotiations, “COP 18” (UN Conference of the Parties) took place in Doha, Qatar, from 26 November to 7 December, with represe...

New study puts China’s Gini coefficient at 0.61, almost level with South Africa • Real unemployment level double the official figure Chinaworker.info China’s sharply widening wealth gap places it among the most unequal nations, a new survey by ...

Prepare to Fight the Bipartisan Policies of the 1% Bryan Koulouris and Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US) Tens of millions breathed an enormous sigh of relief upon hearing that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan wouldn’t be enter...

For international solidarity – fight back against capitalism! Demonstrate in support of migrant workers’ rights on Sunday 16 December Sociaist Action (CWI Hong Kong) reporters Hong Kong is paradise for the super-rich and hell for ordinary worke...

All pretense of a fair trial dropped – Protest Now! From Campaign Kazakhstan On the second attempt the authorities, Vadim Kuramshin, a well-known campaigner for prisoners’ rights and member of the Socialist Movement Kazakhstan, wsa jailed last ...

Stop Israeli state terror! From the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) A ceasefire, starting on Wednesday night, 21 November, has been announced eight days after the Israeli military started to bombard Gaza. While...