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Second major protest against pollution in one week

Upturn in mass protests and “unprecedented display of police strength”

“I can’t say anything,” says outspoken artist; protests against state repression must continue

Thousands of farmers and students join protest marches in at least six cities

But more than one in three Chinese still live in poverty according to World Bank

Working conditions at suicide-company Foxconn in China largely unchanged, says new report

Blockade at world’s biggest container port • Mass arrests and police repression

Paul Murphy MEP condemns the brutal repression of the Chinese state and calls for the release of Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei.

One of China’s most prominent artists Ai Weiwei has been seized and detained by state security agents as he was about board a flight to Hong Kong at Beijing airport on Sunday 3 April.

Young women play key role in strikes in China’s export industry

More than 400 bus drivers and conductors in strike action and sit-in over wages in China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen

Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’

Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products

“The government is guilty! The government is not taking responsibility for us!”

The Chinese police illegally arrested Zhao Dongmin, as the government-controlled puppet trade union accused Maoist activists of "disrupting social order"

A force of 2,000 People’s Armed Police (PAP) used to suppress massive protest by villagers in China’s southwest

Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]

Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament on 21st September 2010 on the EU-China summit

Regime announces union ‘reforms’ – is democratisation of the state-run unions on the cards?

Against violent attack on environmentalists

Protests have broken out in Guangzhou and Hong Kong over a proposal from Guangzhou-based official Ji Kekuang that Guangdong Television stop its news coverage in Cantonese and go over to Putonghua (Mandarin), China’s official language.

A summer of discontent may await the ‘communist’ dictatorship as the giant of labour begins to stir

150,000 people attended the Victoria Park candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary of 1989 Beijing massacre (video)

"Strike until success – re-constructing the trade union!"

Request for solidarity for YFOTU’s struggle for basic labour rights – No to sweatshop mobile phones!

Massive media focus attempts to hide cause of calamity: greedy managers and a total absence of workers’ rights

What is it really about?

Hainan staff take on European lingerie giant ‘Triumph’

Repression increases – two cases within 24 hours: dissident Li Jian Hong, and CWI member Laurence Coates, banned from entering China

Laurence Coates held for two hours at border and banned from country

Capitalism abolished, but power in hands of Stalinist Communist Party

Steelworkers in Henan province follow example of Jilin steelworkers and force local officials to suspend sell-off

30,000 workers fighting for jobs and pensions in northeast China

140 killed and 800 injured in worst ethnic clashes for decades in China’s Muslim-majority region

“Not forgotten, not forgiven”

Highest turnout since early 1990s shows that legacy of “6/4” (June 4th massacre) remains a powerful factor among Chinese people

Authorities nervous in lead up to Tiananmen 1989 massacre

“No economy is falling faster than China’s at this moment”

Released from prison in Liaoning province

New socialist quarterly launched

Fish, pork, and chicken contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, along with milk and eggs

Millions face being thrown out of work in Guangdong province

Beijing one of the most polluted cities in the world

Over 12,000 dead and 19,000 buried

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

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

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

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