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Thousands protest against CCP officialdom over media lies and inadequate relief efforts • Suppressed CCTV news report says official bungling aggravated flooding chinaworker.info The city of Yuyao in Zhejiang province was hit by the region’s wor...

Shenzhen factory workers’ representative held by police for five months chinaworker.info On Wednesday 23 October, Wu Guijun, a migrant worker in Shenzhen, will have been held in police detention for five months. Wu has only very recently been f...

New generation can learn from experience of Malaya Communist Party leader CWI Malaysia Chin Peng, the former guerrilla leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), died in Thailand on 16th September at the age of 88. His party had not been active...

Over 100 workers at McDonald's supplier fighting for equal pay and conditions chinaworker.info GUANGZHOU Over 100 migrant workers at Hong Kong-owned Luen Shing Industries Limited have been in dispute with the company since August. According to ...

Standing up against fascism and injustice until the end Alexandros Prantounas, Xekinima (CWI Greece) “On a day like this It’s fine to die A beautiful death, Standing up, In full public view” ‘Killah P’, from the CD ‘Zorya’ Ca...

Workers’ representatives held in police cells for weeks – protest against the criminalisation of workers’ struggle chinaworker.info A chorus of protests grows louder over the extra-legal detention of Shenzhen workers’ representative Wu Guij...

Popular Front’s alliance with ‘Nidaa Tounes’ provokes big turmoil on the left Serge Jordan, CWI In the aftermath of the cold murder of the left Nasserite leader Mohamed Brahmi on 25 July, a cascade of mass protests shook every corner of Tunisia...

Regime risks internal earthquake, as power struggle sharpens Sally Tang Mei-Ching and Vincent Kolo The outcome of the five-day trial of former top Chinese politician Bo Xilai in August wasn’t what Chinese leaders intended – in that it further e...

Shi Tao’s case exposes multinational IT-companies’ cooperation with Chinese regime chinaworker.info China has released jailed poet and author Shi Tao, who was imprisoned in 2005 based on information provided by US internet giant Yahoo. The case...

New leaders facing economic and political crisis Pasha, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong) China has entered a period of crisis. Even its leaders recognise this. The new president, Xi Jinping, admitted that the current crisis could threaten the C...