“Tales of Rights Defense” from Railroad Workers Bulletin #1
Part Two in a series of translations from the independent workers’ newsletter Railroad Workers Bulletin (铁路工人通讯). For background see the “Prologue” to issue #1. Below is a translation of “A Few Tales of Rights Defense” (几个维权故事) by...
Railroad Workers Bulletin — Prologue to Issue #1
Railroad Workers Bulletin (铁路工人通讯) is an independent periodical produced by and for Chinese railroaders since last summer (2015), with the aim of promoting communication and “mutual aid” among railroad workers of all categories in the face of the...
Echoes of Chengdu’s Tian’anmen
Image via Louisa Lim/NPR. “Around Tianfu Square, buses were burning, fire was set to police cars as well. The riots in Chengdu, you don’t know about that?” I was puzzled when, about two months ago, a cab driver started talking to me about the protests in...
Bicycle couriers in China’s own “logistics revolution”
Image from 浙江在线. Translation by Chuang of《快递员可以有多惨？》(How bad can it get for couriers?) by 林海, from the 工业区观察 (Industrial Zone Observer) WeChat feed, April 6, 2016. (Original Chinese reposted below.) With the decline of exports and manufacturing over the past few...
“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