Asia

After nearly a year when the planning for the country command succession was disturbed by an extraordinary string of scandals, the party leaders finally have announced the date of November 8th forthe opening of the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP). The scandals involved Bo...

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the Chinese economy hard, with setbacks in key indicators not seen for decades. What will happen in the coming months? How does this current reality and its dynamics impact world economy? By Alejandro Iturbe    Mar/31/2020 Recently, a BBC article reported: “China's National Bureau of Statistics...

After two years of relative calm, the Chinese working class is reappearing in the news, with reports of strikes occurring on the Pearl River Delta, in southeast China. This region is home to one of the largest concentrations of manufacturing in the whole world.  The current Chinese economic growth...

  Fact finding teams of New Wave New Delhi have confirmed that the 'murder' of the executive at Maruti is in fact a lie and in all likelihood he died in an accidental fire. The factory at Manesar is now under lockout and workers are under threat of layoffs...

A general strike has been called on the 27th of September by the farmer’s union “Samyukt Kisan Morcha” (United farmer’s front) to protest against the three farm laws which were passed arbitrarily last year. It was exactly on this day in 2020, that the president gave his assent to...

Under pressure from their workers, the largest railway federation in India, the All India Railway Federation, had conducted a strike ballot on the 21st and 22nd of December.  Most of the workers from all circuits showed enthusiastic participation in the ballot in which almost 80% of the workers voted....

            An important process of struggle has arisen in Hong Kong against the so-called “Extradition Law” proposed by the Beijing-dependent authorities. “The controversial bill will allow suspects of criminal offences, like murder and rape, to be extradited to continental China and other countries to be judged.“ The bill was...

End the divestment! Stop this FDI! End the Price Hikes!! For whom are these reforms? The government of the Congress has again begun its old capitalist tricks. Winning the presidential elections has given it the confidence to restart its reactionary programme of attacking the workers and poor peasants and petty bourgeois. The first major attack has already be fallen us in the form...

We should begin by stating the obvious, India's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster! Since the very first day, the government approached the problem with a combination of incompetence, ham-handedness, and glaring unpreparedness which would find few parallels in the world.  By Adhiraj Bose  -  Mazdoor Inqilab Today,...

As we watch Gaza being bombed again by Israeli forces, another equally devastating conflict is taking place in Myanmar, where the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar army, has unleashed a hell of oppression on its people, since taking power by a coup d'Etat.  By Adhiraj Bose - Mazdoor Inquilab  from Kolkata India In...