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...
Class Combat
Reposted from Ultra (August 4, 2017) — Imperium The empire had fallen long before it collapsed. Corrupt elites ruled from a distance. Industry fragmented in slow motion, plundered by the rich and slowly pieced apart by foreign competition. For common people, the...
“Study the crotch-kick & use it for self-defense against sexual harassment!”
Image from original Chinese article, reading: “The Dragon Spirit assigns you a mission: to exterminate the demon of capitalism The Wind Spirit grants you magical powers to destroy the ancient monster of patriarchy”1 A translation of “Set a modest goal for...
“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...
“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