By John Chan
24 February 2009

China's notorious dangerous coal industry recorded another tragedy on Sunday. A gas explosion in the Tunlan Coal Mine near Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province, killed at least 74 miners and injured another 114. The death toll is the worst since an accident that killed 105 miners in the same province in December 2007.

The blast occurred early Sunday morning when 436 workers were working un...

• Tibet’s Rising Son
• Photo: A coal miner awaits news af...

By John Chan
19 February 2009

In an extraordinary move that reveals real fear of social unrest, Chinese president Hu Jintao recently held a meeting of the Central Military Commission (CMC) to urge his senior generals to ensure that the army would follow the orders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) "under any circumstances". The CCP rule has always rested on standing army, currently 2.3 million-strong, together with the affiliated Peoples Arme...

By John Chan

Staggering falls in exports across Asia have shocked economic analysts and ended all claims that the global slump may be nearing its bottom. The IMF's growth forecast for Asia this year is just 2.7 percent—less than a third of the 9 percent growth rate of 2007. The prediction is a full percentage point less than during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.

IMA Asia analyst Richard Martin commented in the Australian: "It's...

Rio Tinto shareholder threatens Chinalco deal
Legal & General Investment Management Ltd, the largest shareholder of
Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto, indicated that it would vote
against a US$19.5 billion cash infusion by Alumnium Corp of China
(Chinalco), the Wall Street Journal reported. "We expressed our view
that shareholder pre-emption rights are paramount. We look forward to
engaging further with the company to achieve an outcome acceptable to
all s...

HONG KONG—Authorities in the southeastern Chinese city of Fuzhou have warned local officials to take measures to prevent "mass incidents" over a land dispute, as the global economic crisis sparks government fears of growing social unrest, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Hello comrades, I thought this article announcing two new sections of the ICC in Asia might be interesting:

en.internationalism.org/icconline/2009/philippines-turkey

During the ICC's last congresses, we pointed out an international trend towards the emergence of new groups and individuals moving towards the positions of the Communist Left, and we highlighted both t...

The text below comes from World Revolution, section of the International Communist Current in Britain. I decided to post it here in ‘Left Communism in China’ Blog because the militant struggles and strikes by hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers inside China are part of the world-wide proletarian defense against the attacks of capita...

At noon on 17 January, students at Dianbai First High School in the city of Maoming in Guangdong province discovered the school canteen was serving sub-standard pork. The pork smelled rotten even after being thoroughly cooked. After making inquiries at the canteen employees, they found out that recently the canteen had been providing the students with sub-standard meat quite frequently. This aroused the anger of the students, and collectively they demanded an explanation from ...

By Carol Divjak
10 February 2009

The Chinese government is facing a massive unemployment crisis, far worse than in the late 1990s, when lay-offs of more than 30 million workers from state enterprises led to a wave of militant protests. This time, the growing army of unemployed mainly consists of internal migrant workers from the countryside, who have been hit hard by plunging export orders in the urban manufacturing centres and the collapse of the construction boom.

Clash between police and hundreds of local residents triggered by ban on dragon dance

According to officials and eyewitnesses in Dejiang county, in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, at least a dozen people were injured on Sunday 8 February during a riot that began when the police moved to break-up a traditional Lunar New Year procession, the dragon dance. There are some media reports that soldiers were called in to quell the disturbances. Three of the injur...

I appreciate the effort of the comrade who put this website. The proletariat in China has a vast history of class struggle before it was completely defeated in 1927, the last gasp of world proletarian offensive against capitalism. Besides, the international bourgeoisie propagandized today that in the epoch of decadent capitalism, there is...

We can now be accessed at:

http://internationalist.cn.st/

Government claims of 6.8 percent economic growth in final quarter of 2008 based on “outdated system”

The latest shock economic news from China is that its economy may have slowed to zero growth in the final quarter of last year. Compared to the previous quarter’s growth, the method used by most major economies, growth was about one percent at an annual pace and possibly zero, according to economists cited by Associated Press. Beijing...