Weakness of opposition is Prime Minister Abe’s only strength Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI in Japan) Shinzo Abe recently became the longest serving Japanese prime minister in nearly four decades.
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Spain: Elections mark shift to the Left
No government majority as Podemos partially recovers
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Hong Kong: New Year riot in Mong Kok
Police violence must be condemned
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China: Crisis set to deepen in Year of the Monkey
As the Year of the Monkey arrives China is facing its worst economic crisis in decades.
China
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China: Crisis set to deepen in Year of the Monkey
As the Year of the Monkey arrives China is facing its worst economic crisis in decades. (more…)
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China: Strikes surge as jobs disappear
There was a dramatic escalation in the number of workers’ struggles in China last year, especially...
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China fears spread across global markets
Could the financial turmoil of the opening week set the tone for 2016? (more…)
- China: 2015 a year of unnatural disasters
- China’s arrest of Peter Dahlin marks ominous new stage in crackdown
- Hong Kong protest: Against Alibaba’s acquisition of SCMP
Hong Kong
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Hong Kong: New Year riot in Mong Kok
Police violence must be condemned (more…)
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China’s arrest of Peter Dahlin marks ominous new stage in crackdown
“China is entering a dark night of repression and detentions under Xi Jinping” – Chinese activist...
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Hong Kong protest: Against Alibaba’s acquisition of SCMP
Defend freedom of press! (more…)
- Hong Kong: Protesters call for release of Guangdong labour activists
- Hong Kong: Great result for socialist election campaign
- “I will only take one-third of a district councillor’s wage”
Taiwan
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Taiwan: Support insurance workers’ strike
Nan Shan Insurance workers on strike since 9 December for pension rights and against contract labour...
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CWI’s 2nd congress for China and Hong Kong a big success
Discussions on perspectives for Hong Kong’s democracy struggle and the crisis in China (more…)
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Is China heading for a new Tiananmen?
26th anniversary of the Beijing massacre on June 4, 1989, is also a warning of revolutionary shocks...
- Taiwan: Kuomintang’s landslide election defeat redraws the political map
- Obama’s TPP: Taking neo-liberalism to a new level
- Taiwan: Thousands march against Ma’s nuclear policy
International
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Japan: Social and political unease after “twenty lost years”
Weakness of opposition is Prime Minister Abe’s only strength Carl Simmons, Kokusai Rentai (CWI...
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Spain: Elections mark shift to the Left
No government majority as Podemos partially recovers (more…)
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China fears spread across global markets
Could the financial turmoil of the opening week set the tone for 2016? (more…)
- China’s arrest of Peter Dahlin marks ominous new stage in crackdown
- China’s ‘red alert’ sums up climate crisis
- Paris Summit: Capitalism versus the climate
Theory & History
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Unpacking the rucksack – Identity politics and the struggle against oppression
In the search for a way to fight against discrimination and oppression, many young people in particular...
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Indonesia 1965: 50 years since anti-communist massacres
World’s third largest Communist Party crushed in US-backed military coup (more…)
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Socialism: Past or future?
Review of ‘PostCapitalism: a guide to our future’ by Paul Mason (more…)
- How the war machine was stopped: 40 years since the Vietnam War
- 75 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky
- Hong Kong: Has June 4 candlelight vigil become just a “ritual”?
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