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By Mazdoor Inquilab It had been 4 years since the last major general strike by central trade unions in 2021. Since 2010, there had been a general strike once every year by trade unions until the pandemic hit. The past strikes were massive one day strikes that caused large, but temporary, disruptions to the system, […]

By LENA WANG On May 28, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the State Department would “work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or studying in critical fields.” This threat follows the Trump administration’s thwarted attempt to […]

Mazdoor inquilab India Mehnatkashtareek Pakistan Introduction : The abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution was celebrated by the Modi government as a great nationalist victory. This amendment, which ended Kashmir’s limited autonomy, was presented as the change that would bring lasting peace to Kashmir, prosperity would soon follow. Instead, it turned Kashmir overnight […]

On May 19, the Yemeni Houthis announced that they would target all ships entering or leaving the port of Haifa, Israel’s main port in occupied Palestine. The port is located in the Red Sea, through which 15% of all world trade passes. By Fabio Bosco The Houthis hold de facto power in western Yemen. Since […]

By M.A. AL-GHARIB The U.S. military reports that it has conducted over 800 air strikes in the last month on the Houthi-administered area of Yemen. On April 28, the Houthis’ Civil Defense organization claimed that a U.S. strike on a prison holding African migrants killed at least 68 people and wounded 47 others. At the […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab (India) and Mehnat Kash Tarik (Pakistan) On the afternoon of 22nd of April, nearly 26 civilian tourists were gunned down by militants claiming to be of the ‘The Resistance Front of Kashmir’ (TRF), an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The tourists were mostly visitors from the Indian mainland, and mostly Hindu. Eyewitnesses have […]

By CAMERON GAY Tens of thousands marched in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on April 11 to denounce continuing U.S. airstrikes on their country and Israeli bombing in Gaza. On the early morning of April 11, U.S. airstrikes killed at least three people, while the death toll in an attack two days earlier rose to […]

Shame, shame USA!  USA is a fascist state! No justice, no peace! By a group of Hong Kong residents who advocate against war Over the past week, Israel has torn apart the ceasefire agreement, first suspending the exchange of hostages, then shutting off water and electricity to Gaza, then re-launchng the bombardment of Gaza overnight […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab In February, the Russo-Ukrainian war entered its third year. Until this point, there has been at least 1 million casualties, and verifiable death estimates of soldiers and civilians amount to over 300,000. This makes the war the deadliest war in Europe after the Second World War, far surpassing the death and destruction […]

A Chinese startup launched an efficient artificial intelligence model that has sent tech giants’ stocks tumbling. What does this mean from a socialist perspective? By Marcel Wando DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, recently launched an open source AI model that rivals the developments of U.S. technology giants and uses significantly fewer resources. This innovation […]

By Lee On January 1, 2025, a student at the Vocational Technical School in Pucheng was found dead on the ground outside of his dormitory window. According to the report of the CCP investigation team, at about 10 pm on January 1, 2025, a student with the surname Dang had difficulty falling asleep in his […]

By Alejandro Iturbe Last Tuesday, the president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, announced on television that he had declared martial law, thus suspending the activities of parliament and all “constitutional guarantees.” This included the prohibition of political activities and the suspension of habeas corpus (which implies the power of arbitrary detention by the government), as […]

By: Fábio Bosco (11/19/2024) On November 19, Hong Kong judicial authorities announced the sentences against 45 opposition figures for organizing election primaries to unify the so-called “pan-democratic opposition” in July 2020, which was attended by 610,000 voters. The sentences range from 4 to 10 years in prison. Jurist Benny Tai, an associate professor at the […]

Since September 9, the workers at the Samsung plant at Sriperambudur in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have been on strike. Over a thousand workers have been on strike demanding increases in pay, among various other demands for improving their work conditions. The intensity and militancy shown in the strike, has been an […]

By ERNIE GOTTA President Biden has been using his final year in office to expand on the Trump administration’s tariffs on China. New tariffs were announced in May, but the implementation was delayed until September. The steepest of the tariffs included a 100% tax rate on electric vehicles. Other imposed tax hikes on Chinese companies […]

Anura Kumara Dissanayeke, the main leader of the JVP (Sinhala acronym for the People’s Liberation Front), is the new president of Sri Lanka after defeating the other 38 candidates in the recent presidential election. The news has had a major impact in the international media, which has portrayed Dissanayeke and the JVP as “Marxists.” Videos […]