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Lin Dong was arrested on 22 April for supporting Dongguan’s massive Yue Yuen strike chinaworker.info HONG KONG: Members of Socialist Action (CWI) and LSD legislator ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung protested at Adidas, Nike and Timberland stores in ...

Beijing finds sports shoe manufacturer guilty of “wrongdoing” while local government, police and company bosses coordinate a crackdown chinworker.info reporters It is one of the biggest strikes in China for decades and has attracted internation...

Echoes of ‘sunflower movement’ as thousands stage ‘occupy’ protests in Taipei CWI Taiwan reporters There seems to be no respite for Taiwan’s beleaguered president Ma Ying-jeou. Tens of thousands of people took part in a two-day protest in Taipe...

Need for a genuine working class alternative to neoliberal nationalism and capitalism James Langdon, CWI Taiwan The 3-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan and historic mass protests against the hated Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSS...

Occupations in Wan Chai and Central against government’s corrupt outsourcing system Interview with Refugee Union chairman Raymond by Bas Solomon of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) Refugees in Hong Kong are united, and refuse to be ignored a...

Hong Kong and Indonesian governments should also stand trial over migrant workers’ rights Socialist Action reporters in Hong Kong The return of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih to Hong Kong is a major event for the city’s 330,000 migrant domestic worker...

40,000 workers paralyse production at world’s largest sports shoe maker as labour disputes soar in China chinaworker.info reporters Workers at six out of ten factories in Dongguan owned by Taiwanese multinational Yue Yuen have been on strike fo...

China’s dictatorship is haunted by the prospect of a new mass revolt Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info On 15 April 1989 Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, died of a heart attack. This became the start signal ...

What are the lessons of the island’s ‘sunflower movement’? Taiwan has witnessed an unprecedented mass protest movement since 18 March when around 200 students occupied the main chamber of the Legislative Yuan (parliament) to stop the ratification ...

Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down CWI reporters in Taipei This was the biggest demonstration in Taiwan’s history. In a clear sign that the island’s mass protest movement is gaining rather than losi...