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“Free Wu Guijun” – protests in 13 cities around the world
Support grows in campaign for release of imprisoned workers’ representative
chinaworker.info and CWI reporters
It is now five months since Wu Guijun, a migrant worker employed at the Diweixin Product Factory in Shenzhen, was taken into detentio...
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China’s super-rich get even richer
Forbes rich list says 400 wealthiest people became 150 billion US dollars wealthier last year
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
“The rich are getting richer,” declared Russell Flannery, the bureau chief for Forbes Shanghai. The US magazine unveile...
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Marathon dispute at Guangzhou tool suppliers
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 ...
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China: Li Keqiang prepares economic ‘shock therapy’
Capitalists commentators applaud ‘Liconomics’ but its effects on the global economy can be disastrous
chinaworker.info
“China has basically said goodbye to 8 percent GDP growth,” declared Ha Jiming, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs in China, recen...
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China’s credit crunch causes global shockwaves
Credit explosion “unprecedented in modern world history” behind financial volatility
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
World financial markets have been rocked again in recent days. First came the US Fed’s announcement last Wednesday (19 June) tha...
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China’s pollution overload
China’s carbon emissions have almost doubled in five years
By Sally Tang, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong). This article first appeared in Socialism Today (July/August 2013), the magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales).
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China: The high-speed trial of Liu Zhijun
How serious is Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
Liu Zhijun, who spearheaded China’s gargantuan high-speed rail programme, was tried for corruption on June 9 in Beijing. To say Liu, the former Minister of Railwa...
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Jilin slaughterhouse blaze – a union is a matter of life and death
121 killed in one of China’s worst workplace disasters
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The term ‘slaughterhouse’ has acquired a terrible new meaning after the inferno that engulfed the Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant on Monday 3 June. The b...
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Mao Zedong’s granddaughter among China’s super-rich
Billionaires’ fortunes have increased by almost 17 percent in a year while the poor get poorer
chinaworker.info
Mao Zedong’s granddaughter has climbed into the ranks of China’s richest people. Kong Dongmei, granddaughter of the ‘great helmsman’...
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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...
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Stop the slaughter: Mass starvation in Gaza
Immediate ceasefire now! For working class global mobilisations against war and imperialism
Per-Åke Westerlund, ISA International Executive
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