Drinking Algae, Folding Beijing, Fighting Lockdowns: News Highlights, January 2022
This post is the second in a series of monthly summaries of highlights from Chinese-language news and social media, offering some analysis of economic trends and the changing character of class struggle in China. Through these posts, we hope to give English readers a...
Free the Fujian Six! Open Letter from a Young Maoist Awaiting Prison
Just as 2022 began, the world received news that delivery worker and organizer Chen Guojiang, known as Mengzhu (盟主), had been freed after nearly a year in detention. But Mengzhu’s release by no means signified the loosening of control over labor activists, leftists or...
Fake Capital, Persecuted Speculators & Exploited Enterprises: News Highlights, December 2021
This post is the first in a series of monthly summaries of highlights from Chinese-language news and social media, offering some analysis of economic trends and the changing character of class struggle in China. Through these posts, we hope to give English readers a...
Smart, Disaffected & Unseen: Li Yifan on the Rise & Fall of a Proletarian Subculture
Below is our translation of an interview with Li Yifan about his documentary film We Were Smart (杀马特我爱你), along with a new preface by our friend BG about the film’s significance for China’s emerging movement of “autonomous spaces.” The Chinese interview, conducted by...
“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