Repression

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...

The growing mortgage rebellion shows how events in China are moving fast chinaworker.info China is being shaken by a new resistance movement. Tens of thousands of mortgage rebels have announced they will no longer pay back their housing loans for unf...

China’s COVID outbreak of 2022 has become a major economic and humanitarian crisis Dikang, chinaworker.info “Five more years!” This was the bombshell message from the CCP’s top official in Beijing at the end of June. Cai Qi is the CCP’s secretary i...

Chinese regime’s propaganda goes into overdrive as Xi positions himself for unprecedented third term This article is from Socialist Alternative, the political magazine of the Socialist Party (ISA) in Ireland. By Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info There i...

Mass arrests of democratic opposition under China’s national security law ISA reporters in Hong Kong The latest sweeping crackdown by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) in Hong Kong effectively bans political opposition in the city. The fragile ‘democr...

Student protests sweep Chinese campuses against draconian lockdowns Hong Liuxing (红流星) chinaworker.info Due to the coronavirus pandemic the Chinese state imposed strict lockdowns on university and school campuses since April. In August, the Ministry...

Drop the charges against Chai Xiaoming chinaworker.info (ISA in China) reporters On 14 August, left activist Chai Xiaoming was tried secretly by the Intermediate Court in the eastern city of Nanjing on the charge of “inciting subversion of state po...

How was capitalism restored in China? This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time. Vincent Kolo In March, China’s ornamental ‘parliament’ the National People’s C...

Mass protests against crematorium force government to back down in fear of a new Hong Kong Dahu, chinaworker.info At the end of November, thousands took to the streets in Wenlou in angry protests against plans to build a crematorium. 1,000 riot pol...