Luo Ding is a contributor to chinaworker.info. While Hong Kong has been convulsed by the biggest mass protests in its history, large demonstrations against construction of a polluting waste incinerator plant have rocked Wuhan, central China. A week of large street protests began in Yangluo, an outer sub-district of Wuhan, on June 28, when around […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Rising U.S.-China Tensions: A New Era of Conflict The escalating U.S.-China conflict is nothing short of a major crisis for global capitalism. With negotiations having all but collapsed there seems to be no “exit ramp” from the trade war that began in July 2018. This crisis points to […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Incredible movement in Hong Kong. Sunday, June 16’s demo was two million, outnumbering last Sunday’s one million, which opened the floodgates. This means more than 1 in 4 of Hong Kong’s population (7.5m) joined the march. A statement on behalf of the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who may […]
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Dikang is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Anniversary of June 4 Beijing massacre draws record numbers at Hong Kong vigil By Dikang, chinaworker.info Today marks the 30th anniversary of the gruesome massacre in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on the orders of China’s top leaders. China was in the throes of a revolutionary mass […]
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Wang Linyu is a contributor to chinaworker.info. 100th anniversary of May Fourth Movement – The Chinese dictatorship has many reasons to fear that once again China could be on the threshold of mass protests by radicalised youth and students, which could ignite a bigger movement among the working class. On May 4, 1919, 3,000 college […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. In July 2018, tariffs were imposed on Chinese imports by President Trump’s government and there was immediate tit-for-tat retaliation by China. This has amounted to the biggest trade war since the 1930s and is increasingly taking its toll on the global economy. IMF chief Christine Lagarde, reflecting the […]
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China: Police state in Xinjiang under global spotlight What is behind the new found indignation of the US and other governments over China’s repression of its Muslim minorities? After decades of silence, governments in Washington, Berlin, London, Ottawa and elsewhere have woken up to the brutal repression against China’s ten million Uighur Muslims in the […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Capitalism and imperialism were driven out, but political power rested in the hands of a Stalinist communist party It is an especially nervous Communist Party (CCP) regime that presides over the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October. The regime […]
Continue ReadingA new wave of repression is sweeping China’s universities. Security forces have detained more than a dozen student activists since the start of November. All the victims are connected to a solidarity campaign for factory workers in southern China, where a fight to establish an independent trade union began in June. Their solidarity campaign, which […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Trump’s tariffs raise international tensions and could derail global economic growth The trade war between Washington and Beijing looks set to escalate. The Trump administration is poised to impose tariffs – a punitive tax on imported goods – on a further US$200 billion of Chinese goods. This would […]
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