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International Women’s Day: Salute Cambodia’s women textile workers

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...

Massacre in Kunming risks new spiral of repression and violence

Shock and disbelief as 29 are hacked to death at railway station Editorial statement, chinaworker.info The massacre at Kunming’s railway station on March 1 –known as the ‘3.1 incident’ – must rank as one of the most shocking acts of terrorism i...

South Africa: Struggles intensify as election draws closer

Campaigning for WASP socialist alternative at May polls By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) As South African President Jacob Zuma, last Friday, announced that the country’s next general elections will be held on May ...

Hong Kong refugees start new occupation

‘Occupy SWD’ accuses government of covering up abuses by its private refugee welfare contractor ISS-HK Around 50 refugees with their families set up a protest camp outside the offices of the Social Welfare Department (SWD) in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai ...

Ukraine: Anti-government protests bring down Yanukovich

But pro-western, right wing regime consolidates power Ukraine has seen the dramatic overthrow of corrupt and authoritarian president Viktor Yanukovich. But the lack of a working class alternative allowed reactionary forces, with western imperialis...

Socialist (社会主义者‏) magazine: issue 25 out now

  Banned in China – Socialist magazine celebrates 5 years of publication! Socialist magazine The March-April issue of Chinese language Socialist (社会主义者‏) magazine is out on the streets in Hong Kong. Next week the Taiwan and mainland China ed...

90 Corporations responsible for global emissions

Kelly Bellin (Socialist Alternative CWI USA) Unless drastic action is taken to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, the planet will heat up by a minimum of 4ºC by 2100, according to the most recent research. That takes the global forecast up t...

Refugees take protests to ISS-HK head office

The Refugee Union in Hong Kong stages new protest in swift response to eviction after 7-day occupation Socialist Action reporters “Shame on ISS! Shame on ISS!” echoed across the packed streets of Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district today as 40 member...

Pakistan: Domestic child workers’ slave conditions

Forceful collective voice needed to end poverty and abuse Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore In recent weeks, the deaths of five female child domestic workers has once again highlighted the menace of rampant violence and abus...

Hong Kong: Refugee occupation evicted by court order

Refugee Union vows to continue and step up the struggle with new protests against rogue welfare company ISS-HK Socialist Action reporters On the seventh day of its round-the-clock occupation of social welfare offices in Hong Kong’s Prince Edwar...

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How Militant Intervened in Britain’s Labour Party

August 31, 2026 Interview with Mike Forster and Cormac Kelly This article was originally published in early June 2026, in issue #3 of International M...

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