Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party
This article by Vincent Kolo was first published on chinaworker.info in October 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Re...
On 1 December, the “economic cold war” between China’s Xi Jinping and America’s president Trump took two important steps, but in opposite directions
Dikang, chinaworker.info
A very fuzzy truce, devoid of specifics, was declared by the...
Anger as government drops Leung and Cheng prosecutions
Zuo Ren, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
Marchers in Hong Kong on 1 January will protest official corruption and the refusal of the Hong Kong government to pursue legal action agai...
Setbacks in Malaysia and Pakistan
chinaworker.info reporters
China’s grandiose ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) to construct a 70-nation economic sphere under its leadership is encountering big problems: a pushback by Western powers and resista...
Speech brands China as foremost threat to US power
chinaworker.info reporters
Mike Pence, Trump’s Vice President, is hardly regarded as an influential member of the US government. But his speech on 4 October to a right-wing US think tank marked...
Another costly white elephant project with sinister political implications
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
It has been dubbed by some as the “Trojan train” because for the first time it legitimises the presence of Chinese police and security official...
Police repression against workers at Shenzhen factory who are campaigning to set up a democratic trade union
chinaworker.info reporters
On 11 August, Shen Mengyu, well-known as a Maoist and worker activist, was seized while eating dinner wi...
Protest police repression against workers' struggle to establish genuine trade union at Shenzhen factory
chinaworker.info is republishing this statement sent to us by a left-wing activist group in China calling for solidarity from the internationa...
Introduction to the Commission on China at the CWI School 2018 by Pasha of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
The past one year can be described as a year of big changes in China – showing a deepening crisis of the one-party dictatorship and Chin...
State using systematic frame-ups and ‘carrot and stick’ methods to extract confessions
Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info
On 26 December, the blogger Wu Gan, known by his online nickname Super Vulgar Butcher, was sentenced to eight years in pris...
