Asia

Thousands arrested, tortured, beaten and humiliated on the streets

Political turmoil and chaos continue

Call for united action now

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

Only way to counter racial and reactionary religious policies

Constitution suspended, fundamental rights denied

Textile workers are on the move again.

CWI leaflet in English and Burmese

Massive death toll deepens country’s crisis

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 […]

All wings of establishment jostle for power

Deaths and injuries, as protests spread

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

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

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

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

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

Wesley Suthantharabal Muthiah 1930 – 2007

Scandals abound

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

Government isolated; workers need solutions

Pakistan celebrates its 60th anniversary on 14 August 2007.

Trade Union Rights Campaign secretary victimised for exposing Telcom redundancy plans

Please send protests!

Fifty killed and more than 150 injured

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

Party’s leaders called in for questioning

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) organised and participated in activities across Pakistan in more than 40 towns and cities.

Campaign against war and oppression gets a boost

This is an introduction to an Indian edition of the book Marxism in Today’s World

Ruling elite divided with no immediate alternative

Judge rejects state prosecutor’s demands

Urgent messages of protest needed!

One day in February this year, Ammu, a 25-year-old textile worker, was found hanged in the most suspicious circumstances.

New government, but is it a "new Nepal"?

Killings are ultimately the responsibility of the ‘Communist’ led state government.

Second successful national congress held in Lahore

“I tried to rip up my ballot paper” –Leung Kwok-hung known as ‘Long Hair’, an independent socialist legislator in the Hong Kong Assembly

A review article on ‘The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century’ (by Will Hutton)

Mass class struggle in impoverished, repressive society

Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and some associates in the ’United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided the […]

Bodies of murder victims likely those of kidnapped Tamils

Private developers’ thugs and police demolish local homes

Majority of children malnourished and majority of population illiterate

Medecin Sans Frontier threaten striking health workers with dismissal

Another US retreat?

The situation in Sri Lanka has become even more difficult for the left forces, especially the activists fighting against the war and against the repression of the rights of the Tamil-speaking minority.