by chuang | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog
As the second piece in our series on “the Jasic affair,” the past year of state repression against young Maoists and related matters, we’ve translated an interview with two anonymous “participants in mainland labor struggles” from the second issue of the...
by chuang | Jun 25, 2019 | Blog
Reposted from CrimethInc., 22 June 2019. Instead of just retweeting this interview, we decided it needed to be republished in full, since it’s by far the most interesting piece we’ve seen on the movement so far (although they argue one of its virtues is...
by chuang | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog
The following article was originally published on Tootopia (土逗公社), probably the most popular platform for Chinese left millennials (until it was shut down in the latest wave of anti-left repression), toward the end of October 2018.1 The data used below therefore ends...
by chuang | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
Photo: AFP/ Getty The events of Hong Kong’s movement against the extradition bill have already been widely reported in English, with more details and personal accounts coming out every day. (For highlights follow our Twitter feed.) Here we’d just like to share two...
by chuang | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog
Image: Bobby Yip1 Commentators ranging from academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek to some of the world’s top China labor scholars have hailed “the Jasic Conflagration” as an event of “historic significance” or even “the most important labor...
by chuang | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog
Image: Alamy Updated translation of “China: Der Winter kommt” from issue #103 (February 2019) of the German magazine Wildcat. We publish this as the first in a series of blog posts attempting to grapple with events and trends in China over the past year, on which...