Articles by Hong Kong reporters, chinaworker.info

Murdoch and ’friends’ attacked by array of well known labour movement figures

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, By Charles R Morris

The long battle for justice

By John Green, Artery Publications, London 2008

Militant social and workers’ struggles

Strikes in Iran, Denmark and Norway

"Measure DIE LINKE by its actions"

Government and bosses fear all-out battle with working class

Shop stewards say they will now defy and resist the Unite injunction barring them from protesting at Transport House

"Unite are trying to deny us our democratic right to peacefully protest." Gordon McNeill

Politicians Qatar power-sharing deal no solution

Gordon McNeill remains on hunger strike at Transport House – His protest enters the 14th day.

Sectarian politicians’ power-sharing Assembly not a solution

$33 billion cuts announced

8,000 school students strike and march in Berlin

Legal bills understood to be paid – Unite union promise to make compensation offer

Public-sector employees, teachers and fishing industry workers take industrial action

“The Lisbon Treaty demands more expenditure on the armaments industry and intensifies the militarisation of the European Union”.

Anti-immigrant attacks – a warning to working class

Christofias promises ‘worker-friendly’ policies and resolution of national question – Will he succeed?

The Provincial Council election in the East will enter history as one of the most rigged elections in Sri Lanka.

“Resolve the situation in favour of Gordon and his comrades”

Campaigning for a new mass workers’ party

Press release issued by the sacked Belfast airport workers on 19 May 2008

Urgent protests needed!

Former Socialist Party TD (MP) condemns attacks on workers’ rights

Wealth and privilege put before aid

New balance of forces in Lebanon – US imperialism threatens intervention

Mass working class action shows way to end authoritarian rule and poverty

New balance of forces in Lebanon – US imperialism threatens intervention

Over 12,000 dead and 19,000 buried

What prospects for the national conflict?

Growing fear that the Tories will win the next UK general election.

The only political party to have a demonstration and rally in Colombo

Right wing opposition and the rich attempt to divide country

Sectarian street clashes and militias road blocks

Mayday pictures

Capitalism brought to its knees

Beginning of a United Workers’ Movement

Beginning of a United Workers’ Movement

For the Building of a United Workers’ Movement

The continuing public sector strikes were a dominating theme in May Day demonstrations in Sweden and Denmark.

Good response to CWI paper and leaflets in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

Booming growth or looming crisis?

Opposition to the state Labor government’s plans to privatise the electricity industry.

Food prices and workers’ rights are key issues

Rich tributes paid to the Chicago Martyrs

Election meltdown for New Labour

Union leaders play hardball with workers

Lebanon activists to stage 4 May solidarity action

TURCP led-rallies often larger than the ‘official’ rallies

Protests against anti-immigrant Brussels mayor and neo-Nazi group

Exception to the trend

Socialists fight in Eastern elections

1,500 demonstrators thwart 400 Nazis

Opposition continues with illegal referendum in Santa Cruz on 4 May

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) sends warm socialist greetings to workers and youth across the world on May Day, International Workers’ Day, 2008.

Massive support for their wage demands

A moment for celebration?

Refinery workers defend their wages and pensions

Workers and Poor Masses Should Struggle for Socialist Alternative

Around the world, strikes, demonstrations and protests have erupted as millions upon millions of workers, peasants and poor face the horror of rapidly rising food prices.

Need for socialist programme to break with landlordism and capitalism

‘Red bishop’ breaks the power monopoly of the Colorado Party

Hardening positions over Tibet and Western ’insults’ to China threaten wider crisis

A review of the latest book by economist and commentator Paul Krugman, ‘Conscience of a Liberal’

Labour must lead mass action to bring culprits to book

A tumultuous year when the floodtide of mass revolt swept over the narrow confines of capitalism and threatened the very foundations of the system.

Striking workers and youth fought with police. At least two were shot dead.

A victory for the right led by Silvio Berlusconi and an electoral ‘bloodbath’ for the Sinistra arcobaleno (Rainbow Left).

Striking workers in Greece and Portugal show the way

New Berlusconi victory will provoke mass opposition

The world of ’68 and the France of today

Union gives guarantees workers’ demands will be met

Mass unemployment, hyper-inflation and poverty

The massive price rises of basic food stuffs over the last few years are an international phenomenon.

Workers’ health deteriorates dangerously – Urgent protests needed!

None of the main candidates offer any hope.

Flat Earth News by Nick Davies

British state repression, the IRA’s armed campaign and the Labour Movement

Nader, McKinney, and the Greens

The first electoral defeat for Sarkozy

But pro-big business Fianna Fail government still needs to be opposed

A new stage of the crisis

On 30 March Palestianians commemorate Land Day by holding protest rallies and demonstrations all over the world.

Book review

The Radical Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Racism in America

Solidarity appeal for David Morera and Marvin Marin

Protests urgently needed!

Socialist activist from Pakistan addresses ‘Socialism 2008’

Commentators warn of “another May ‘68’

Build Nader’s anti-war, anti-corporate campaign

Ten things you should know

Opportunities for socialists will develop in the next period.

An unmitigated disaster

Assessing progress, building for the future

Left support grows

‘Political tsunami’ creates new political landscape

Urgent solidarity needed!

Financial crisis – who suffers?

Re-establishing a tradition of struggle

Socialist alternative needed to growing confessional tensions

First International Women’s Day demonstration in decades

Economic crisis and racism backdrop to polls

Fighting workers’ organisations urgently needed

Mass protests to mark 5th anniversary of Iraq invasion

120 Palestinians in Gaza killed in the space of a week

Strikes, strikes and more strikes!

Watch CWI take part in cable TV debate on imperialism and the Balkans

Video from Socialist Party Wales conference

Far-right and establishment parties stir up racist mood

Workers and students radicalised

Only socialism can give women the right to choose when and whether to have children.

Neo-liberal policies want to turn back the clock

The workers’ movement and building powerful mass struggle parties

Fundamental problems of yesterday remain today.

Fight the poverty trap!

Medvedev/Putin will continue rule on behalf of capitalist ‘clans’

March 8th International Women’s Day demonstration in Brussels

Reclaim the day and its real significance

Export of ‘dirty industries’ by giants like Unilever must be stopped

Massive anger as Hong Kong-owned company slashes 4,000 jobs

New CWI pamphlet on the fight for abortion rights.

“It’s more powerful than anybody thought”

‘Power sharing’ Assembly government budget introduces deep cuts

But Bilbo Göransson warned by union, Kommunal

Unions pledge support for industrial action at Tesco retail giant

US sliding into recession

Tasks facing Marxists in Venezuela

Barack Obama frontrunner in Democrats’ presidential candidature race

Real compensation needed!

But battle not yet over

Class struggle more urgent than ever

Barack Obama becomes frontrunner in Democrats’ presidential race

Report from CWI Latin America School

What are the prospects for the revolution?

Religious parties routed, grand coalition in the making

No to job losses!

Declaration provokes EU splits and border violence

Might of Establishment and Murdoch media-empire against socialists

When the Red and White forces battled for power

A new stage in development of socialist forces on the continent

Genuine radicals should join struggle to build new workers’ party

Workers, pensioners and youth stike to defend pension rights.

Criminal waste of resources on armaments

70 people attend first meeting of event in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Conflict part of a wider power struggle

After 46 days on strike, the miners of Budryk have won a victory.

But real political opposition against Sarkozy urgently needed

Discussion between Mark Serwoka (General Secretary PCS) and Peter Taaffe (General Secretary, Socialist Party)

Capitalist globalisation behind the catastrophe

Stalled EU deal… status of Kosovo…crisis grows

Big business deal will ruin African markets; paupurising millions

Masses revolt against starvation conditions

Mass disappointment underlines need for workers’ party with fighting programme

A decade of socialist commentary and analysis

Scandal of long waiting lists causing unnecessary deaths

Defeat of German workers’ movement led to Nazi barbarism

Workers demand higher wages to off set rising energy and food prices.

“One of the 20th century’s biggest killers and greatest thieves”

State and society in crisis

Global capitalism faces its worst crisis since 1945.

On 2 December 2007, Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, unfortunately suffered his first electoral defeat since winning power in 1998. Hugo Chávez’s defeat in December’s referendum marks a key point in Venezuela’s revolution. The high […]

Sixty arrested and held in police cells

Tukwila School authorities forced to back down

Workers need party that fights bosses’ system

As share values tumbled in the most dramatic falls since 9/11, the talk was not so much of whether there will be a recession, but of how deep and long it will be.

On 16 December, former Scottish Socialist Party MSP Tommy Sheridan was charged by Lothian and Borders police after the most expensive perjury investigation ever in Scotland.

Independent working class policies only solution to oppression and ethnic strife

“We’ve given enough!” – Public sector industrial action likely

Violent confrontation could erupt

Workers need a political alternative to pro-capitalist parties and ethnic conflict

Hindu Rights Action Force campaign underlines need for socialist solution

Union leaders try to break strike

Memory of Bobby Sands invoked by SF to deflect from right wing policies

”This is the most disastrous defeat since the establishment of the party” – Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian

Electorate looking to shed the legacy of the Bush administration

Behind the rhetoric of "hope" and "change"

Society polarised

Urgent solidarity action needed!

Growing national and religious tensions – How do socialists approach this issue?

Dean Roberts from ‘The Socialist’ newspaper in Australia visited China where he met with Li Gang who is a 25 year old white collar worker and socialist from Shanghai

The wheels have come off the Gordon Brown bandwagon.

Full-scale war to follow assassination and bombings

Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe, accounting for just over 20% of total European Union Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Pakistan People’s Party leadership ’bequeathed’ and no change in policy indicated

Crisis will be used to argue it is impossible to build a mass force to the left of Labour.

Pakistan People’s Party leader killed in suicide attack; political crisis and chaos deepen further

Lessons from history, the recent experience of Italy and Germany, and the latest developments in Brazil.

A view on the nature of China’s state.

International Executive Committee, at beginning of December, celebrated year of steady progress

The number reported being held has now increased to 43.

Protest storm in defence of young activist

End Murdoch’s witch-hunt

Repression against workers, students and women activists increases

Government, rocked by mass demonstrations, takes revenge

Complete paralysis of absolutely everything and massive demos in all major cities of Greece were the results of the general strike by the Greek Trade Unions last Wednesday, December 12.

Nearly 300 trade unionists and workers participated in the first TURC-K national convention held in Kotli (Pakistani Occupied Kashmir, POK) on December 8.

Thousands of people in Shenyang, capital of north-eastern China’s Liaoning province, took to the streets over several days recently.

No more public money for billionaire’s campaign

As was absolutely predictable "United Russia", Putin’s party has won a large majority (more than 312 out of 450) of seats in the GosDuma – Russia’s Parliament.

Students organize walkouts in 8 cities

How will the Games benefit the mass of the Chinese people?

Does Zuma’s triumph mean victory for the working class?

The most significant strike since the ANC came to power.

Brazil is vast, a continent within a continent, with a land mass equal to the USA. It is a country of stunning contrasts. The sheer beauty of the Amazon exists alongside the grim poverty which […]

School system needs to be “revolutionised”

An historical awakening

But the fight must go on!

Western capitalist powers unable to resolve burning national question

Socialist Party wins support contesting Melbourne seat

The train drivers’ dispute about wages and working hours in Germany is going into the next round.

Biggest demonstration since ‘Reformasi’ movement of ten years ago

Inspired by past victories – Preparing for future struggles

France experiences a new wave of strikes against the plans of Sarkozy presidency.

Defend the right to protest!

Mass meeting of OAU students decides action

”Strike an important milestone” – John McCamley, SIPTU shop steward

On the 20th November 700,000 people took to the streets all over France against right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy’s neo-liberal attacks .

Main opposition only offers right wing policies – Build the resistance!

Victory boosts workers’ confidence to defend living standards

Build a socialist alternative

German train drivers follow French model

Crucial first strike under ‘power-sharing’ Assembly

OAU students discussing next steps

Union Leaders’ Historic Sellout of Workers

Ten years of weekly paper celebrated

Thousands arrested, tortured, beaten and humiliated on the streets

Political turmoil and chaos continue

Ruling class parties in a muddle

A militant struggle against ‘power-sharing’ government attacks

Thirty-six employees of the Coffee To Go Café in Ramat Aviv have won a strike for union recognition and against the violation of their labour rights. It was the first ever strike in an Israeli […]

Enthusiastic response to socialist policies

Call for united action now

Train drivers’ strike over wages and hours

Congress discusses growing opposition to neo-liberal Lula government and Left regroupment

Official figures belie extent of killings, maimings, disappearances and arrests

Only way to counter racial and reactionary religious policies

New pamphlet bringing together a series of four articles in The Socialist in 2007

Constitution suspended, fundamental rights denied

‘Fifth generation’ leaders groomed for office in 2012

A Critical review of ’Reason in Revolt’ by Peter Mason

Further reports of international solidarity picket and new plan

Heading rapidly towards a split between the two main forces who founded it in 2004.

Crisis and confusion remain

Bringing socialist ideas to working class communities and youth

Textile workers are on the move again.

Right-wing populist government defeated

Simultaneous pickets demand their release and the dropping of all charges

Bloody fighting between Turkish troops and PKK Kurdish separatist guerrillas on the Turkey/Iraq border has enormously ratcheted-up tensions between the two countries.

Saburi’s bail denied in court

Gordon Brown’s honeymoon is over

"Here comes the confrontation that could define his presidency"

CWI leaflet in English and Burmese

On Saturday, 20 October, Patrik Hooghwinkel, member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) and an active anti-racist, was brutally attacked by Nazis, who hit him with an iron bar until he bled.

Massive death toll deepens country’s crisis

Why did workers vote in favour of an agreement which attacks their pension rights?

Worldwide embassy protests on Tuesday 23 October.Release Saburi Akande Akinola, Taiwo Hassan Soweto and Olatunde Dairo now!

Industrial action follows spate of public sector strikes

Audience hear about Che’s uncompromising stance against capitalism and imperialism

Urgent appeal: Free OAU students now!

Commitment from union to cover costs

"No alternative but to take this drastic action"

Release Taiwo Hassan, Tunde Dairo and Akinola Saburi! Now!

Blatant example of the opportunism that typifies all the leaders of the main political parties.

The October Revolution – when the working class took power

A revival of the class struggle and sustained political instability send the government into meltdown.

1968 article reprint, with new introduction

Socialist Party to contest Melbourne seat

New introduction to Brazilian edition of Marxism in Today’s World

Hundreds attend ’Socialism Days’ weekend

Industry enriches bosses but endangers life and the environment

Review of ‘China: The Fragile Superpower’ by Susan L Shirk The stream of books published on China almost equals the volume of products churned out from the country’s factories and workplaces. Many have provided invaluable […]

Solid action against pay cut and attacks on working conditions

The global capitalist economy has been hit by a major credit crunch.

All wings of establishment jostle for power

The Northern Rock banking crisis

Economic ‘upswing’ offers no improvement for the masses

“..it is not for revolutionaries to sit in their doorways of their houses waiting for the corpse of imperialism to pass by” (Second Declaration of Havana, 1962)

Deaths and injuries, as protests spread

Capitalism could drag millions of working people into an economic and social abyss.

1,000 schools affected…picket lines in every city, town and village

Sectarian parties lower taxes for big business while hiking taxes for workers

Military warns of “action” against biggest street protests for two decades

Government and opposition struggle intensifies

Major gains for left parties

The Northern Rock crisis, the first full scale bank run in Britain for over a century

Make the bankers pay!

This is an opportune time for the publication of the Pakistani edition of this book.

Biggest left-wing mobilisation for many years

New journal continues struggle for a powerful socialist alternative

In July, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced that she would challenge Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her California congressional seat in 2008. Explaining her reasons for running, Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, […]

"Generals lie, Soldiers die"

Armed threats ends action

The successful strike actions of the Prison Officers Association (POA) and the RMT maintenance workers on London Underground have potentially changed the industrial situation in Britain to the benefit of trade unions and workers, if […]

What is Mao’s significance for today’s workers and youth in China

A first-hand report on the glaring social contradictions in modern-day China

’Committee for Democratisation of the SP’ gains support

Student action wins concessions

Thousands rally despite crack down on civil liberties

’Agitate, educate, organise!’ – The role of the workers’ press

Mass struggles erupt

But struggle for justice continues

Howard government crackdown planned for APEC summit

New network mobilises for anti-government demonstration

Food production and distribution should be controlled democratically by the worker and peasant majority, not by the right-wing opposition

A result of government policies and the profit system

7,000 workers on strike for a fair contract

"Nothing – there’s nothing to go back to…"

The threat of Emergency or Martial Law is not over yet,

350 families threatened with eviction, send letters of protest.

Implosion of US ’sub-prime’ housing bubble goes global

Over the last week, billions of pounds have been wiped off share values worldwide as stock markets plunged.

The Peruvian and Chilean ruling elites have whipped up a border dispute in an attempt to try and divert the attention of the working class in both countries from problems they face in their own […]

Need for a revolutionary socialist party clearer than ever

Unions must act now!

September 7-9 will see George Bush and many other world leaders attend the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum (APEC) in Sydney

Between June 20 and June 23, 2007, Nigeria came to a complete halt as working people led the mass of the population in struggle against the latest attacks of the ruling robber elite.

Headline of the Glasgow Evening Times reads "Pay hike joy for striking council staff."

Wesley Suthantharabal Muthiah 1930 – 2007

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) held its annual summer school in Belgium from 31 July to 4 August.

The 1 August collapse of the I-35W bridge across the Mississippi river is a tragedy on a grand scale for the state of Minnesota.

’Committee for a Democratic SP’ founded

Scandals abound

Australian Labor Party gives Howard full support

"The Prodi government has never been so weak"

But divided elites, social tensions and Kurdish question herald new crises

Will India and China, the new economic giants, rescue world capitalism?

Withdraw the troops now

The non-renewal of the RCTV license has become the subject of worldwide debate.

The merger between the two left-wing parties, Left Party.PDS and WASG (Electoral Alternative for Work and Social Justice), in Germany has taken place.

Youth and socialists against pro-big business APEC summit

Support the Gualberto Villarroel workers – send protests!

Government isolated; workers need solutions

Strike-hit town ’blacked out’ by police and government – international protests needed!

In Bolivia, it is illegal for any employer to discriminate against a portion of its workforce by creating two-tiered labor conditions.

Revolution never develops in a straight line.

A starting point for strengthening struggle

Draconian legislation and severe welfare cuts planned

Pakistan celebrates its 60th anniversary on 14 August 2007.

It is no accident that these books have been produced at this historical juncture.

’Black’ brick kilns and factories product of capitalist ’market’ system

Suspension of action cannot hide magnificent display of public sector workers’ power

Unite against war, poverty and terrorism

Authoritarian regime plans catastrophic abolition of social benefits

Hundreds of angry nurses camp outside Polish PM’s office for over a week

Up to the end of the ‘official campaign’ (after which the publication of polls and articles in the media is forbidden), all commentators predicted a big victory for the UMP (president Nicolas Sarkozy’s party) and […]

Workers will have to resist neo-liberal agenda

Growing opposition against Ahmadinejad’s regime

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

But socialist left in party can still grow

Youth and workers need a socialist alternative

Fianna Fail emerged as the biggest party from the general election in southern Ireland and has formed a coalition government with the Greens, the Progressive Democrats (PDs) and some independents.

Regime makes partial retreat, but fundamental issues remain unresolved

Trade Union Rights Campaign secretary victimised for exposing Telcom redundancy plans

Exclusive eyewitness accounts

Historic defeat for all working people

International experience of power-sharing governments

25 anniversary of Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas conflict

Workers will have to resist more ‘social reform’ cuts

Friday 15 June was a day filled with violence at the campus of the university, Universidad Mayor de San Simon de Cochabamba.

Seattle students shut down school board

General strike enters third day

Labour leaders say action will continue but action must broadened

Please send protests!

Gaza’s population faces further isolation

New regime faces mass working class opposition

Exclusive pictures by Paul Mattsson, cwi photographer. Pictures.

Current Supreme Court and Constitutional Court were Selected by Earlier Governments

Pictures.

Huge popular support for action puts ANC government under pressure

Putin exploits Western hypocrisy over ‘democratic rights’

Socialists must build powerful alternative to capitalism

CWI supporters defend protesters

10,000 protesters successfully breached police lines

A tale of two protests

The struggle for genuine community control and worker management continues

Direct and radical action announced in case their demands are not fulfilled

Whilst the government arrogantly insisted that anything above 6% was unaffordable, a commission on remuneration recommended that the president’s salary be increased by 57% and those of ministers by between 30% and 50%!

State repression will not stop peaceful anti-globalisation demonstrators

Eastern China sees largest urban protest movement for many years

Trade Unions issue 14 day ultimatum – but workers’ leaders must act decisively over new attacks

Protesters plan to blockade meeting of war criminals and exploiters

Anti-worker programme of Blair will stay

For people watching the television news, the coverage of the anti-G8 protests has been dominated by reports of violent clashes between police and some protesters.

Workers’ hopes dashed by gangster capitalism.

June 10 will see the first election outing for the Committee for Different Politics (CAP) when it stands in the Belgian general election for both the federal Senate and Chamber.

Will the Flemish parties succeed in imposing the break up of the national labour market policy?

Once again the world’s media has been focused on the horrific breaking up of an attempted protest in Moscow.

After one year, no enthusiasm for Prodi government

Urgent solidarity needed

Official report reveals "Dereliction of duty and abuse of power" on a grand scale

The prefecture of Manfred Reyes Villa organises thugs to intimidate opposition

Clip from Youtube (new window)

Hundreds of thousands of G8 protesters will be in Germany demanding "poverty is made history", wars and occupations are ended, and that ‘climate change’ is reversed.

The need for struggle and socialist policies is clear

Internationally, a veil of silence has fallen over the blatant rigging of April’s elections in Nigeria, whose 140 million people are a quarter of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population.

Conflict in refugee camp threatens to spread

Build Action Committees in workplaces and communities. Fight for real democracy, oust the looters

The prefecture of Manfred Reyes Villa organises thugs to occupy squares and intimidate opposition

’Part-time’ workers on 13 hour shifts. State-run trade unions win ’victory’, but for whom?

100,000s will protest their policies!

Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond has been elected as the new First Minister of the Scottish parliament.

Fifty killed and more than 150 injured

Irish Times feature on Socialist Party parliamentary election candidate

Financial bubbles and the overaccumulation of capital

Can the agreement last?

Delegates condemn New Labour’s pro-big business policies

Open Letter to trade union and labour leaders

Curtain falls on disastrous reign

How should socialists reply?

The current coalition partners are driving a "race to the bottom" in workers’ pay and conditions, Socialist Party leader and TD Joe Higgins said today.

Belfast workers in revolt

Company promises new negotiations

Military threatens pro-Islamic government

"We demand our share of record profits"

Tens of thousands of student clash with police to protest at government attempts to raise tuition fees

Construct an opposition of workers and youth against Sarkozy: Sarko your policies will not pass.

Distastrous result for New Labour

Necessity to build socialist alternative to big business parties is more urgent than ever

Workers must get organised to resist new attacks!

Hundreds of thousands march against immigration raids

Demonstrators wanted "work, social justice and dignity"

Party’s leaders called in for questioning

Public sector workers threaten to strike from 7 May if agreement with government not honoured

School board under pressure to restrict military recruiters

CWI Sweden launches new national petition

Campaign against war and oppression gets a boost