China
China: The character of the Chinese state
China developments crucial importance to socialists everywhere
Asia
Pakistan
Pakistan: Pakistani Women, religious extremism and traditions
Five women shot, wounded and buried alive
Pakistan
Pakistan: PPP strengthens its grip on power but country plunged into crisis.
Urgent need of a mass working class party
Malaysia
Malaysia: Multinational Hualon taken into receivership
Textile workers win big concessions through persistent campaign
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: A sharp shift to the left
Anti-establishment mood leave government and business leaders in state of shock
Pakistan
Pakistan: Massacres of the Pashtoon peoples
America’s bloody imperialist war in Afghanistan spills into Pakistan
Thailand
Thailand: Courts rule Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej, must resign…ruling party re-nominates Samak
Weeks of bloody protests and political deadlock within ruling elite
Pakistan
Pakistan: Water and sanitation workers’ protest
Struggle over pay and conditions in Balochistan province
Georgia
Russia/Georgia: War exposes limits of West
Major capitalist powers jockey for influence at expense of peoples of the region
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Government uses war to steam-roller victory in provincial elections
Opposition trounced but United Socialist Party still biggest left force