Keeping Each Other Afloat, Pt. 3 – The Gig Economy Era: The Saturation of the Employment Reservoir, New Regulations Incite Controversy
This is Part 3 in our serialized translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles in 2024” produced by an anonymous group of netizens. Part 1 of our translation can be found here, Part 2 here, and...
Keeping Each Other Afloat, Pt. 2 – Young Workers: “Swallowing our Wretched Shares”
This is Part 2 in our serialized translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles in 2024” produced by an anonymous group of netizens. Part 1 of our translation can be found here, and the Chinese...
Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: 2024 Review of Labor Issues in China
Preface Since 2020, an anonymous group of netizens has been coming together to prepare an annual review of labor struggles (or, in their terminology, “labor rights incidents”) and related social trends in China. The effort is led by Wechat User “Chiapas Eastern Wind...
TRUMP II: Trade War Gone Global
In this first contribution to the new project Heatwave, we respond to that collective’s questions about the global impacts of the latest rounds of American tariffs. The full overview of this inquiry can be read on their website, along with responses from comrades in...
“In this way, our account drew on Jacques Camatte as much as TC to ask: How did Marxism become a theory of modernization? How did the theory of revolution against capitalism become a theory of how to carry out industrialization...” | @chuangcn interview w/ @endnotesjournal