Zero Covid

Over 1 million could die in coming waves • Unplanned exit from Zero COVID policy reveals a system in deep crisis Editorial from《社会主义者》(Socialist) magazine of ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan As the Chinese New Year approaches, China is again ...

Sudden chaotic exit from hardline pandemic controls leaves cities grappling with explosive COVID surge Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info In response to a wave of anti-government protests in late November the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has pivoted abru...

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...

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....

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...

“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...