Struggling to Survive in Shanghai and Beyond: News Highlights, April 2022
Fifth in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答系列 – Is China a socialist country? 中国是社会主义国家吗？
China is only a “socialist” country insofar as the meaning of the term “socialism” has become utterly bankrupt. This bankruptcy has mostly occurred through the false equivalence between “socialism” and “development.”
Controlling the Soul’s Thirst for Freedom: News Highlights, March 2022
Fourth in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答系列 – Is China a capitalist country? 中国是资本主义国家吗？
Since money is the lifeblood of capitalist production, this dependence on money for survival is the clearest signal that a population has been incorporated into global capitalism.
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答 – What Do Chinese Workers Think about the CCP? 中国工人如何看待中共？
In college I applied to join the party, but I noticed that our Party Branch Secretary was the most distasteful (庸俗) person in our school, and the “perks” of membership such as precedence in getting a job as a civil servant held no attraction for me, so the whole idea of joining became distasteful.
China FAQ 常见中国问题解答 – Series Introduction 系列序言
The time has come for us to help produce simple, handy and easily reproducible summaries of the communist perspective on China.
Sharing the Shame 与有耻焉：A Letter from Internationalists in China 来自中国大陆国际主义者的一封信
Chinese netizens are unfortunately seen at this time as the loudest supporters of war and Putin. Progressive anti-war voices are muted, and protesters are punished.
Chains of Patriarchy, Death from Overwork, Silenced Critics of War: News Highlights, February 2022
Third in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
Drinking Algae, Folding Beijing, Fighting Lockdowns: News Highlights, January 2022
Second in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
Free the Fujian Six! Open Letter from a Young Maoist Awaiting Prison
At least someone will know there were a few young people in Fujian who dared to speak the truth and went to prison with dignity.
Fake Capital, Persecuted Speculators & Exploited Enterprises: News Highlights, December 2021
First in a series of monthly summaries and analysis of mainland Chinese news and social media discussions.
Smart, Disaffected & Unseen: Li Yifan on the Rise & Fall of a Proletarian Subculture
“If you’re not a smart, then you don’t have a history. A life spent on the assembly line doesn’t have any value.”
The State of the Plague (interview & new book pre-order)
Interview with Brooklyn Rail on our book about how the pandemic has played out in China and its implications for capitalist state-building and class struggle.
天安门广场和进军建制
严厉打压参与运动的工人，成为了1990年代市场改革加速的条件，最显著的是1990年代初的食品市场自由化，因为工人本来一定会抵抗的。随着1989年之后中国经济愈发融入全球资本主义，学生和工人之间的经济利益也进一步分化了。
Bombing the Headquarters: Desperate Measures in a Time of Involution
“Using all the power of one life to resist the numbness of an entire system, and all that was left was a sigh. Rest in peace.”
Involution: Wildcat on China’s 2020
To find answers, the international left must stop looking at things through anti-imperialist and culturalist lenses and sharpen its gaze on Chinese class society.
Until the End of the World: Notes on a Coup
Soe Lin Aung looks beyond the palace to structural dynamics underlying Myanmar’s return to military rule and the possibilities for popular resistance.
Covid, Capitalism, Strikes & Solidarity: An Interview with Asia Art Tours
Communism is inherently internationalist, that requires learning about the largest fraction of the global proletariat, working in the largest technological complexes. But reading books isn’t really solidarity.
Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System
“For all those riders who are still fighting against time on the road, all I can do is to pray quietly for them in my heart.”
Scaling the Firewall, 1: #LiftTheBucket
Worker memes on Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) — first in a series on social media in China