Asia & the Pacific

Journalists rebel in Guangzhou as right wing in China raises its voice

Those in China who advocate bourgeois democracy, deepening capitalist reforms and opening up further to imperialism staged a journalists’ rebellion…

January 14, 2013

Coal miners, Hurricane Sandy and China’s GreenGen

This year, possibly for the first time ever, the United Mine Workers did not endorse a presidential candidate. In 2008,…

December 21, 2012

Mass movement demands U.S. release Aafia Siddiqui

  In support of continuing efforts to pressure the U.S. government to repatriate Dr. Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan, former U.S.…

December 20, 2012

Cynthia McKinney, Sara Flounders travel to Pakistan in solidarity with political prisoner

Dec. 3 — Arriving in Karachi, Pakistan, at 4 a.m. for a trip in support of efforts to free and…

December 3, 2012

Tell U.S. to ‘Free Aafia Siddiqui!’

McKinney, Flounders to visit Pakistan   In support of continuing efforts to pressure the U.S. government to repatriate Dr. Aafia…

November 30, 2012

In guise of exposing corruption, New York Times aims blow at China

Crisis in China, Part 13 The New York Times has committed an act of journalistic aggression against China. On Oct.…

November 2, 2012

‘ Stop drones’ protest in Pakistan

Before Pakistan’s military stopped them from entering a Waziristan area on the border with Afghanistan, thousands of Pakistani people and…

October 14, 2012

The crisis in China: Behind the expulsion of Bo Xilai

The leadership of the Communist Party of China has expelled former Politburo member Bo Xilai from the party, removed him…

October 3, 2012

The real criminals behind Pakistan’s factory fires

The deadly fire of 1911 — which killed 146 workers, mostly immigrant women and girls — and the ensuing publicity,…

September 27, 2012

Stop U.S. machinations in the Middle East!

Washington and the corporate media alike have made it obvious that U.S. imperialism — and its colonialist allies in Europe…

August 20, 2012