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....
Xi’s totalitarian rule is steering China towards revolutionary upheavals
Editorial from Socialist (社會主義者) magazine, published by International Socialist Alternative in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
The Chinese regime (CCP) is holding its 20th Congress ...
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...
This is an abridged version of an article from the upcoming issue (number 8) of Socialist World, the political and theoretical journal of International Socialist Alternative.
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
A succession of economic and political dis...
John Lee “elected” Chief Executive to continue in Carrie Lam’s bloody footsteps
The so-called election of Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive ended without any surprises on 8 May. As expected, John Lee Ka-chiu, Beijing’s lone candidate, was elected by t...
“I want to break down and cry” • Li Yong of chinaworker.info spoke to Shanghai residents Haiyang and Xiaoyan.
These interviews were conducted on 11 April when Shanghai had been in lockdown for almost a fortnight. Since then the city of 28 million peo...
A mass sit-down protest by tens of thousands at the entrance of Chinese-built Gwadar port in Pakistan is just one example of a simmering grassroots backlash against Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative
Hong Liuxing & Dahu, chinaworker.info
In...
Cracks surface in “no limits” alliance with Putin
Vincent Kolo, ISA
“One who is not acquainted with the designs of his neighbours should not enter into alliances with them.” These are the words of legendary military strategist Sun Tzu more than 2,0...
A half century has passed since US President Richard Nixon’s ground-breaking visit to China on 21 February 1972
chinaworker.info reporters
Nixon was the first American president ever to visit China and no formal relations had existed between the two ...
“Government credibility is high, but voter turnout will be low” – says Carrie Lam
Zuo Ren, Socialist Action
The first Legislative Council (Legco) elections since Beijing’s “makeover” will be held on December 19. The Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has i...
Aj. Dagga Tolar, Movement for a Socialist Alternative (ISA in Nigeria)
(This article was first published on 3 November 2025)
Yet another African cou...
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