Repression

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...

The government’s prosecution of the “Occupy 9” was a show trial, the aim of which is to criminalise the democracy struggle in Hong Kong Adam N. Lee, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) The trial and sentencing, four years after the events, of nine ...

What’s behind the newfound indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities? chinaworker.info reporters After decades of silence governments in Washington, Berlin, London, Ottawa and elsewhere ha...

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...

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...

Expelled lawmaker has been a consistent thorn in the side of pro-Beijing camp’s authoritarian big business agenda Vincent Kolo, Socialist Action ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung has long been a thorn in the side of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing establishm...

“A tool of the government’s political crackdown”  Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info Hong Kong’s state-owned rail giant MTR has expanded aggressively overseas in the past decade. The company has exploited the worldwide mania for privatisation of f...

Trump vs. Kim: Nuclear brinkmanship between two unstable regimes Editorial from Offensiv, newspaper of CWI Sweden (Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna) In the past week the already tense situation on the Korean Peninsula took a new dangerous turn. Af...