“We should all be feminists”? Repression, recuperation and China’s new women-only metro carriages
What can Guangdong’s ‘priority carriages for women’ and concurrent repression of feminists tell us about the Chinese state’s strategies for dealing with social antagonism? by Peng X — Last week, on June 26 and 28, new signature pink-signed metro carriages were...
The contradictory rise of China: an interview with Chuang by InfoAut
Photo: Eric Jenkins-Sahlin Comrades from the Italian website InfoAut.org contacted us with some questions about recent developments in China. Below are our responses.2 Here is how InfoAut introduce themselves: InfoAut is a portal of the Italian antagonistic movement...
Đình công tự phát: wildcat strikes in post-socialist Vietnam
Photo: Zing.vn Eric Bell explores Vietnam’s frequent wildcat strikes and reflects on where they could be going. — In Vietnam’s industrial zones — dotting the edges of major urban centres in relative isolation from one another, with a few dozen factory...
Working for Amazon in China, where the global giant is a dwarf
Photo from Reuters/Ralph D. Freso Results of an inquiry into the situation of Amazon warehouse workers in China—part of a project on ecommerce, logistics and supply chains by the “Inbound/Outbound Notes” collective. — Amazon has long been in...
Notes on a factory uprising in Yangon
Photo: DVB Soe Lin Aung examines last month’s strike-cum-riot at a Chinese-owned H&M supplier in Myanmar, digging beyond the headlines into its local context and broader political significance. — A Riot Foretold Last month, a strike turned sour on the...
“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