On 25 November protesters gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in London in solidarity with the imprisoned socialist labour activist Chai Xiaoming. Around 30 protesters chanted, “Free Chai Xiaoming!” and “Solidarity with Chinese socialists and Ja...
Socialist Chai Xiaoming has spent almost four years in prison awaiting sentence
chinaworker.info reporters
Socialist labour activist Chai Xiaoming stands accused of “inciting subversion of state power”. The verdict against the 46-year-old will be h...
Li Ruijun’s arthouse film became a surprise hit with Chinese audiences until banned by censors on the eve of the CCP’s 20th Congress
Adam N Lee, chinaworker.info
Since its release in July, the low-budget arthouse film ‘Return to Dust’ (Yin Ru Chen ...
At the Communist Party’s 20th Congress dictator Xi Jinping made a clean sweep of the party-state’s top organs including the once powerful Standing Committee, but does the purge translate into greater strength or stability?
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker....
Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan watched by 200 million mainland Chinese • Dramatic escalation of tensions between two unstable superpowers
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The chain of events sparked by Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on 2-3 August si...
Rather than hitting the pause button on the imperialist US-China Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fast fowarded processes
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have exper...
The statement below on the war in Ukraine and its implications for the manifold crises of global capitalism was discussed, debated, amended and approved unanimously at a meeting of the International Committee of ISA — our international leadership ele...
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell reviewed by Vincent Kolo
“Why would I talk to my baby?” a young mother in rural China giggled at the question. “She can’t talk back!” Scott Rozelle,...
A turning point in the restoration of Chinese capitalism
Peter Chan, Socialist Action
On 17 January 1992, Deng Xiaoping boarded a train from Beijing to Shenzhen for a month-long “family trip”. This seemingly unremarkable journey at the time turned ...
Since the restoration of capitalism and its rise to become the second largest economy in the world, China has become a major player in the global capitalist system
Peter Chan, Socialist Action (Hong Kong)
At a time when the United States and China ...
