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...
Fear and Loathing in “the Pacified South”: Conspiracies and SEZs in Vietnam
Image: Protesters marching in downtown Saigon. The front banner reads, “Do not give the SEZs to Red China [Trung Cộng], not even for one day.” Source: Kao Nguyen / AFP From 111 BCE to 968 CE the territory around contemporary Hanoi was ruled by...
Turning out engines
Image: Reuters via Politico.com Pat has been conducting first-hand research on industrial relations in Guangdong’s auto parts sector since 2016. Gavin and Ren interviewed her in 2017. They revised and edited the following text in 2018 for Chuang. The...
Marx Pays a Visit to Foxconn
Translation of an illustrated piece recently circulated among electronics workers in the Pearl River Delta, followed by a commentary by Victor Grant. The Chinese version (马克思来到富士康，他惊呆了！) was originally published last spring on WeiGongHui (微工荟 — “WeChat Union”),...
“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