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Demonstrators call for trade pact to be withdrawn and for president to step down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...
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...
