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Tensions between powers worsen Niall Mulholland, CWI Crimea’s 16 March referendum saw an overwhelming majority vote in favour of joining Russia. According to the claimed official result, 96.77% voted ‘for’ integration and turnout was 83.1%. Ten...

Thursday 18th September is referendum day in Scotland. Discussions are taking place in workplaces, colleges, schools and communities all across the country. The run-up to September will be dominated by debate on how to vote and what might an independ...

Down with undemocratic Kuomintang rule – for a Taiwan-wide student strike as the next step! Sally Tang Mei-ching in Taipei and Vincent Kolo Tens of thousands of protesters have filled the streets around the occupied Taiwanese legislature for th...

Sexism, discriminatory laws and poverty hit women hard in China’s richest city Sally Tang Mei-ching and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info For the fourth year in a row Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) took the initiative to a public rally on In...

Long live working class internationalism in action! An example for other sectors. Danny Byrne, CWI Against the international backdrop, in which bosses and governments inflict a ‘shock and awe’ agenda of attack after attack on working people acr...

A mass movement must be built based on the working class James Langdon, CWI Taiwan The Ma government in Taiwan is desperately trying to lock in discussions with China over a trade agreement in goods. The urgency behind their attempts is shi...

Fight against corruption at welfare contractor ISS leads to the ‘pinnacle of power’ in Hong Kong’s government Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info “Who took our money? ISS! Who sponsors corruption? CY’s wife!” This was one of the chants as over 60 re...

Main pro-Union (anti-independence) parties step up campaign ahead of independence referendum Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI) The growing conflict over Scottish independence has dramatically escalated following the coordinated inter...

Massive environmental destruction the true cost of nuclear power Dikang, chinaworker.info The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011 was the second worst nuclear disaster ever, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine...

Fight for a living wage met by brutal government crackdown David Hundorf, chinaworker.info When we march on International Women’s Day, 2014, special recognition should be accorded the women garment workers of Cambodia who staged a magnificent n...