Seeing through Muddied Waters, Part 1: Jasic, Strikes & Unions
Image: Bobby Yip4 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...
Winter is Coming: China 2018-2019 (Wildcat)
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...
Tiananmen Square & the March into the Institutions
Image: Catherine Henriette/AFP/Getty Excerpt from “Red Dust,” part 2 of our economic history of modern China, from Frontiers, the second issue of the Chuǎng journal. Print copies of Frontiers [have been] distributed to our sustainers and [are now on sale via AK Press...
Unionists vs. the union: letters from the July 20th Incident in Pingshan
Over the past week, activist and leftist corners Chinese social media have again exploded in courageous demonstrations of solidarity for a group of workers and their supporters being persecuted by the twin hands of capital and the local state, this time in Pingshan...
“Let the People Themselves Decide Whether We’re Guilty”
Update on the “Eight Young Leftists” persecuted by Guangzhou police last winter, analysis of their case, and translation of Huang Liping’s open letter. — On November 15th of last year, police from the Xiaoguwei Subdistrict of Guangzhou stormed into a reading...
“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