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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....

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...

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....

China: Xi Jinping’s 20th Congress caps five years of political disasters

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: ‘Zero COVID’: Xi Jinping’s new era of totalitarian control

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...

China: The Deepest Crisis for 30 Years

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...

Hong Kong: Counter-revolution gets a new face

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...

China’s ‘Zero Covid’ disaster – voices from Shanghai

“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...

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How Militant Intervened in Britain’s Labour Party

August 31, 2026 Interview with Mike Forster and Cormac Kelly This article was originally published in early June 2026, in issue #3 of International M...

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