Pigs, Oil and Land: News round-up, May 4.
Pigs Can Fly: Chinese May Day Celebration Criticized for Pushing Pigs off Bridge. The Telegraph, May 4th As May Day demonstrators battle police in countries across the world, from South Korea to the US West Coast, tourism officials in Hunan concocted a...
Dancing with the Machine
The following is the latest song from the Shenzhen migrant worker band, Zhong D Yin 重D音, performed at Beijing Migrant Workers’ Home’s 打工春晚 or Migrant Worker Spring Festival Gala, along with translated lyrics. Zhong D Yin’s name literally means Heavy...
Embracing Confucius, class struggle, funeral strippers, and tunneling Everest – Chuang’s weekly news update
Class and class struggle in China Contours of the class struggle in China Socialist Worker, April 22 “Since the 2008 and the spread of the global economic crisis, China has experienced a sharp rise in class struggle, both in Hong Kong and on the mainland. Ellen David...
Lide shoe workers beaten and arrested during assembly in Guangzhou
Photo from 锤子之声. Last December we translated a report about the strike of 2,500 workers at a Lide shoe factory in Guangzhou – one in a series of struggles at footwear factories in Guangdong that began with the historic strike of 50,000 workers at six Yue Yuen...
“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