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China: The collapse of Xi Jinping’s Zero COVID policy

Sudden chaotic exit from hardline pandemic controls leaves cities grappling with explosive COVID surge Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info In response to a wave of anti-government protests in late November the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has pivoted abru...

Protests [Mostly] Suppressed In China But Crucially, Continue Outside

Read below for an update on where the movement stands in China, followed by a selection of reports from solidarity demonstrations across the world and ISA’s involvement. Elan Axelbank, Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales & Scotland) In...

Solidarity with mass protests in China

Free the arrested • End Zero Covid • End dictatorship! Leaflet from chinaworker.info for global solidarity demos with China's mass protests The mass protests of November 2022 have changed China. Whatever happens in coming weeks, everybody now knows...

China’s mass revolt – where now?

Most significant protests since the 1989 Democracy Movement Li Yong and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info At the time of writing police are massing in Chinese cities in an effort to stamp out the recent protest wave. Protests continue at universities....

London protest for imprisoned Chinese socialist

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...

China: Repression against China’s left intensifies

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...

Return to Dust Banned

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 ...

China: Xi purges CCP’s top ranks

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....

What’s behind the Taiwan Strait crisis?

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...

Socialists and the US-China Cold War

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...

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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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