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Hong Kong dockworkers’ strike ends after 40 days

Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8 percent – but important issues are unresolved  Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The strike by 500 Hong Kong Dockworkers at the world’s third largest container port is over afte...

Taiwan: Over 20,000 march on May Day

‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’ Chris Dite in Taipei Around 20,000 Taiwanese workers used this year’s May Day to rally against austerity and cuts to the pension. Workers weaved through the central Taipei city streets today , despite the col...

Hong Kong: Dockers’ strike shines a spotlight on Li Ka-shing’s business empire

Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides… Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI supporters in Hong Kong) In Hong Kong it is the tycoons like Li Ka-shing that rule. The inspiring month-long port strike has illuminat...

Mrs Thatcher and the end of British rule in Hong Kong

The process by which British imperialism exited Hong Kong, its last major colony, came again into focus following the recent death of former British leader Margaret Thatcher Dave Hundorf, chinaworker.info Thatcher, revered as a heroine by capit...

How bad is China’s debt crisis?

Socialist magazine (published by the Chinese section of the CWI) asked Vincent Kolo, senior editor of chinaworker.info, about rising levels of debt in China and whether this heralds a financial collapse? Socialist magazine: How serious are China’s...

Hong Kong: Dockworkers strike lays bare class divisions

Fifteen years without a pay rise – “We are like slaves of the company!” Socialist Action (CWI) reporters in Hong Kong A very determined strike by 450 Hong Kong dockworkers at the Kwai Tsing container terminal has partly paralysed the world’s th...

China’s new leadership rejects democratisation

At annual NPC-CPPCC meetings Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang talk of ‘painful’ reforms for economy, but rule out ‘Western models’ Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info China’s ‘two red carpet shows’ in early March, the NPC and CPPCC, put their seal on the o...

Syria: Turning point in civil war?

Regime causes untold civilian suffering and death… rebels’ carry out sectarian massacres - No to imperialist intervention Arne Johansson, from Offensiv (weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI in Sweden) The United States and EU powe...

Tibetans in revolt – what is the way forward?

Chinese regime’s repression responsible for Tibetan self-immolationschinaworker.info reportersMarch 14 will mark the fifth anniversary of the protests across Tibetan-populated regions against suffocating political and religious repression by the Comm...

Hong Kong: Fight against sexual violence and discrimination

International Women’s Day celebrated in Hong Kong Sally Tang, Socialist Action in Hong Kong On IWD 8 March this year for the third year running Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) held a joint international manifestation bringing together women...

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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain—Lessons for Fighting the Far Right Today

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