Factory Stories: Conditions and Struggles in Chinese Workplaces
Reposted from Gongchao (July 30, 2015).5 —– Hao Ren, et al. are Chinese worker activists who have been documenting and analyzing the situation and struggles of factory workers in the Pearl River Delta in South China over the past few years. In 2011, Hao...
Crashes, crack-downs, and explosions: News round-up, July 29
Photo by Reuters via SCMP Stock market crash, growth figures Wary Chinese investors are ditching stocks for real estate – Quartz, 27 July http://qz.com/464505/wary-chinese-investors-are-ditching-stocks-for-real-estate/ “Like a bouncy castle on a patchy power supply,...
Papering over crisis: the Chinese stock market plunge and the real economy
In the 1950s, Mao Zedong argued that the US was a paper tiger, that it appears strong but in reality was very weak. He began his argument by noting that the US “owes debts everywhere.” Debt is everywhere to be found in today’s China as well. Underneath the recent...
A Commune in Sichuan? Reflections on Endicott’s “Red Earth”
Reposted from the defunct China Left Review (issue #3, 2010). We’re reposting this old article here for reference because the Chinese version was recently reposted on Groundbreaking (破土), and 金沙水磨坊, and we noticed that the English version is no longer...
Industrial sunsets, gardening sailors, children and pesticides, dogs and meat, poisoned water and tainted fasting: News round-up, June 24
Photo: Reuters Sunset of China’s garment industry? – as the industrial giant comes of age low surplus value and labor intensive industries like garments are being relocated to cheaper regions or technologically upgraded Robotics revolution rocks Chinese textile...
“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