Adding Insult to Injury: Beijing’s Evictions and the Discourse of “Low-End Population”
Image: EpochTimes.com Translation of an article and a photo-essay from the Chinese media platform Tootopia (土逗公社), followed by our commentary. “They are indeed ‘low-end labor-power,’ but who isn’t?” (他们就是“低端劳动力”，但谁不是呢？) By Lu Bu (卢布) Tootopia, November 24, 2017...
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Update October 1, 2018: Issue 2, “Frontiers,” is finally nearing completion. (See the overview to the issue here, and two preview pieces: “A State Adequate to the Task” and “The Hermit and the Empire.”) Thanks to sales from issue 1...
“Bluegogo’s CEO has apologised, but I still haven’t gotten my wages and can’t pay rent”
Image from SocialBikeshare.org Translation of Jianjiao’s commentary on the collapse of all but two of the many bike-share companies that bubbled up last year, and on the discourse of the hard-working, risk-taking CEO, followed by our own observations....
“The Germans don’t care, so we have to fight for ourselves” (德国人不管，我们自己奋斗吧)
Reposted from Gongchao, 9 October 2017. Also see this music video made by the temp workers in Changchun. — FAW-VW workers employed through temporary agencies in Changchun, northeastern China, have been involved in a struggle for equal pay since late 2016....
“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