China
Myanmar is fought over by imperialists
The neoliberal imperialists who have returned to office in Washington with Joe Biden are finding the world has become more complicated since they left with Barack Obama four years ago.
Hong Kong protest movement leaders face jail
Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam could be imprisoned for five years
Hypocrisy from the top over China's oppressed Uyghur minority
British politicians have suddenly discovered they’re passionate defenders of human rights again.
Huawei ban is about West’s tech control
The Tories last week announced the removal of Chinese technology firm Huawei from Britain’s new 5G network
Korean War showed up imperialist barbarism
The ‘forgotten war’ that began 70 years ago wrecked a country so that big powers could grab more influence, writes Sophie Squire
Mass demonstrations defy draconian new laws in Hong Kong
Thousands of demonstrators defied the new law and a police ban on protests by chanting pro-independence slogans and waving independence flags
India-China battles warn of rising tension
22 June 2020High in the barren mountains of Ladakh, just downwind from the Himalayas, a seemingly bizarre series of fights took place last week.
Virus tears through poorer countries as fears of a ‘second wave’ grip China
16 June 2020The global coronavirus crisis is far from over.
Hong Kong’s National Security Law triggers new mass mobilisation
02 June 2020A continuous week of demonstrations shows the bravery of the people, youth and students. But some of the demonstrators also had limitations.
Fresh protests erupt in Hong Kong
25 May 2020Mass protests have erupted in Hong Kong against a plan by the Chinese government to impose a new security law.
Imperialist rivalries heighten the crisis
05 May 2020The Coronavirus pandemic represents a crisis that is simultaneously biological, economic, and political
Bosses’ virus fears are only for profits
09 March 2020“New data paint grim picture of coronavirus fallout,” read a headline in the Financial Times newspaper last week. My heart sank when I saw it. But when I anxiously scanned the article, it wasn’t about the spread of the coronavirus or the deaths it is causing.
Coronavirus shows capitalism is sick
18 February 2020It is still too early to say how serious an epidemic Covid?19—as the latest coronavirus outbreak is now known—will prove to be.
Letters—Media racism exposed in coverage of coronavirus
04 February 2020Panic around the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan has led to a rise in racist attacks against Chinese and East Asian people.
York students say they won’t be divided by coronavirus fears
02 February 2020Students fear a rise in racism after the first British cases of coronavirus infection were revealed to be from their university.
Britain in firing line of US-EU trade war
28 January 2020China and the United States have agreed to a truce in the trade war they have been waging for the past two years. What is supposed to be “phase one” of a larger trade deal was signed in Washington last week.
Lockdown and panic won’t stop spread of virus in China
24 January 2020The spread of a virus in China worked the British rightwing press into a frenzy.
Why does China persecute the Uyghur Muslims?
03 December 2019Tomáš Tengely-Evans looks at the history of nationalism behind China’s racist horror
Hong Kong voters back democracy
26 November 2019Voters in Hong Kong delivered an unprecedented landslide for pro-democracy candidates in local elections
Brutal Hong Kong police target university in drive to crush pro-democracy movement
18 November 2019Huge battles were taking place in Hong Kong as Socialist Worker went to press, as the authorities escalated their repression of pro-democracy protests.
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