Pakistan
Pakistan: False police case against Comrade Hameed Chanah
Socialist and union organizer targetted by feudal lords and corrupt state officials
Asia
China
China: Trial of Bo Xilai, most important in 30 years
Regime risks internal earthquake, as power struggle sharpens
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Jailed activist awarded human rights prize
Vadim Kuramshim’s courageous campaigning recognised by lawyers’ prestigious award
China
China: Regime at a crossroads
New leaders facing economic and political crisis
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Radio programme lifts lid on dictatorship’s prisons
But fails to explain widespread conspiracy of silence
Malaysia
Malaysia: Economy worsening
Further burden on working class and young people
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Fatal shootings underline extent of country’s militarisation
United Socialist Party makes election challenge
Asia
Southern Asia: When the world economic crisis makes landfall in South Asia
Fragile governments will be rocked by mass movements of workers and poor
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: ‘Black July’ 1983 and civil war
Anti-Tamil pogroms organised by ruling class
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: 430,000 people march on 1 July
‘Down with CY Leung’ – but what are the next steps in democracy struggle?