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North Korea and China: What drives their “unbreakable friendship”? 

Xi Jinping’s June visit to Pyongyang revealed a CCP regime on the backfoot, needing to shore up China’s influence in its geopolitical “backyard” Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info North Korea’s Kim Jong-un used Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visit...

China’s Crisis Deepens: 48 Million Unemployed

July 21, 2026. Vincent Kolo, ISA International Political Committee Top Chinese economist’s speech reveals growing alarm as economic crisis deepens China’s real unemployment rate is 10.2% according to a top Chinese economist. That’s double ...

The Xi-Trump summit and what it says about the US-China imperialist conflict

Per-Åke Westerlund and Vincent Kolo, ISA International Political Committee On 14-15 May, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media described it, hig...

There is nothing temporary about China’s economic crisis

Record youth unemployment, worsening property crash and consumption slump Li Yong, chinaworker.info Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship and the bourgeois media have repeatedly claimed that ‘a recovery is on the way’, but...

Can ‘future industries’ lead China’s economy out of crisis?  

Zhu Gong, chinaworker.info 2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the ‘Two Sessions’ (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, the 15th Five-Year Plan was formally ‘passed’. The CCP (so-c...

Solidarity with striking Shenzhen Yilisheng factory workers

3,000 mostly women workers’ strike at Shenzhen factory against wage cuts as a disguised form of layoffs Zhou Yi, chinaworker.info A week-long strike by an electronics factory's largely women workforce has captured attention across the country. The ...

The heavy human cost of China’s rare earth dominance 

Imperialism and the quest for global hegemony is behind the rare earth battle Li Yong and Moby, chinaworker.info Rare earth elements are considered China's most powerful trump card in the US-China imperialist trade war. They are essential in the ma...

US-China trade war: Why is TikTok a big deal?

The second of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The TikTok deal – if there will be a deal – is an important element in the wider conflict betw...

US-China trade war: No winners

The first of two articles on the ongoing trade standoff between the two biggest imperialist powers, China and the US Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info A popular meme of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is doing the rounds. Trump tells Xi, “I hold the cards”,...

Jiangyou mass protest – watch the video

In early August, Jiangyou city in Sichuan Province was shaken by several days of mass protests over a school bullying incident, and this became the most prominent protest incident since White Paper protests in Nov-Dec 2022. The following video was fr...

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The War on Iran Is an Environmental Disaster

May 26, 2026 Tom Costello, Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland   The devastation caused by US i...

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