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...
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...
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...
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...
Over 200,000 take to the streets on the eve of Japan’s Fukushima anniversary – to demand a nuclear-free Taiwan
Hsu Hsiao-ming and Pasha in Taipei
Massive demonstrations were held across Taiwan on ‘309’ – Saturday 9 March – demanding the scrappi...
Calls for increased welfare spending and affordable housing are deafening, but this government only listens to the rich
Dikang, Socialist Action
John Tsang’s sixth budget presented at the end of February resembles all the others – stingy beyond...
CCP leader Xi Jinping three times wealthier than the whole British cabinet
Vincent Kolo
On March 5, the world’s wealthiest-by-far political assemblies will open for business in Beijing. The annual sessions of the NPC and it’s sister body CPPCC ...
Villagers in Shangpu occupy public square and demand democratic vote over land seizures
Zhang Shujie and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
Yet another Guangdong village has risen in revolt against illicit land sales. Yet another tense standoff is ...
But Park Geun-hye’s right-wing agenda will face mounting mass resistance
CWI reporters in South Korea
On 25 February, Park Geun-hye of the right-wing Saenuri (New Frontier) party, and daughter of assassinated military dictator Park Chung-hee, w...
For a mass struggle of workers and poor to defeat imperialism and fundamentalist reaction
Leila Messaoudi, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France)
The sudden decision for a direct French military intervention in Northern Mali has not come from n...
