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China unleashes ‘white terror’ against protesting workers
Wave of repression – over 30 mineworkers arrested after Shuangyashan strike
Dahu, chinaworker.info
The so-called ‘Shuangyashan incident’ – a six-day strike by around 10,000 coal miners in March – has shaken the dictatorship of the CCP (Chinese ...
China
China: Massive job destruction has already begun
China’s rulers are destroying ten times as many coal mining jobs as Britain’s ‘Iron Lady’ Mrs Thatcher
chinaworker.info reporters
A tsunami of job destruction is heading towards heavy industry in China. This is especially in the coal and steel ...
China
China launches sweeping crackdown on rights lawyers
More than 100 arrests • Human rights lawyers branded “enemies of the state”
chinaworker.info reporters
Xi Jinping has once again shown his authoritarian credentials with what appears to be a nationally coordinated weekend crackdown on human rig...
China
What does China’s reserve ratio cut mean for its slowing economy?
China’s leaders in tough balancing act between growing debt mountain and falling growth rate
chinaworker.info
China’s central bank (PBOC) announced on Wednesday 4 February a half percentage point cut in banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in...
Hong Kong
Two different perspectives on Hong Kong’s mass protests
“Big business is trying to say that we are privileged”
Hong Kong-based journalist Shannon Van Sant interviewed billionaire Allan Zeman and protester Pa Sha. These segments of her interview were posted on her facebook page.
Two very different p...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Student activists arrested as police step up repression
For a new, enlarged school strike to fightback against the crackdown on student pro-democracy protests
Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
Hong Kong’s week-long student strike in support of a democratic election system reached a climax ...
China
China: Corruption probe begins against Zhou Yongkang
Former security chief is the most senior scalp to be claimed by Xi Jinping’s anti-graft campaign
chinaworker.info
It was officially announced today that former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation for “serious disciplinary violat...
China
25 years since the June 4 Tiananmen massacre
Can the Chinese dictatorship survive another quarter of a century?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
June 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the bloody massacre in Beijing that ended the mass student-led democracy movement which came close to topp...
China
China: Debt woes multiply as new liquidity crunch strikes
Local government debt has soared but Beijing’s attempt to curb runaway credit misfires again
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
An end-of year scramble for funds by financial institutions drove up interbank lending rates to levels not seen since th...
China
China’s anti-corruption campaign leads to fewer prosecutions
Xi Jinping’s pledge to catch ‘tigers’ as well as ‘flies’ fails to live up to the media hype
Tommy Zheng, chinaworker.info
Statistics just released from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP), which oversees criminal investigations and prosecu...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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