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China: The struggle for grassroots independent unions
Regime announces union ‘reforms’ – is democratisation of the state-run unions on the cards?
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China: Thousands join protests for Cantonese language
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.
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China: Honda strike a turning point for nascent workers’ movement
A summer of discontent may await the ‘communist’ dictatorship as the giant of labour begins to stir
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Workers’ suicides: The human cost of an iPad
Twelve workers have committed suicide so far this year at the factory that makes Apple iPads. Four others survived, gravely injured, and 20 were stopped from killing themselves by the company. All the dead were […]
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Hong Kong: June 4 vigil “biggest ever” say police
150,000 people attended the Victoria Park candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary of 1989 Beijing massacre (video)
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China/Hong Kong: Foshan Honda factory workers take strike action
"Strike until success – re-constructing the trade union!"
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China: Shanxi coalmine ‘miracle’ rescue
Massive media focus attempts to hide cause of calamity: greedy managers and a total absence of workers’ rights
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Women and socialism: China – Women’s struggle then and now
There are important lessons from women’s struggle in Chinese history that should be studied again.
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China: Google and the Chinese regime
What is it really about?
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Video: Workers’ rights in China
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP speaks in European Parliament on workers’s rights in China