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Update October 1, 2018: Issue 2, “Frontiers,” is finally nearing completion. (See the overview to the issue here, and two preview pieces: “A State Adequate to the Task” and “The Hermit and the Empire.”) Thanks to sales from issue 1...
“Bluegogo’s CEO has apologised, but I still haven’t gotten my wages and can’t pay rent”
Image from SocialBikeshare.org Translation of Jianjiao’s commentary on the collapse of all but two of the many bike-share companies that bubbled up last year, and on the discourse of the hard-working, risk-taking CEO, followed by our own observations....
“The Germans don’t care, so we have to fight for ourselves” (德国人不管，我们自己奋斗吧)
Reposted from Gongchao, 9 October 2017. Also see this music video made by the temp workers in Changchun. — FAW-VW workers employed through temporary agencies in Changchun, northeastern China, have been involved in a struggle for equal pay since late 2016....
Three Theses on the Crisis in Rakhine
Image from “China backs Myanmar on Rohingya issue” Reposted from Tea Circle (September 27, 2017) By Soe Lin Aung By now, the main contours of the recent events in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, are well-known. On August 25, an insurgent group calling...
Drinking Tea with China’s ‘National Treasure’: Five Questions
Translation and commentary by Peng X[1] — In this unusual transcript of a recent encounter between feminist activists and police in a southern Chinese city, we witness the state’s repressive tactics in operation alongside the humour and defiance of those...
“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