Dancing with the Machine
The following is the latest song from the Shenzhen migrant worker band, Zhong D Yin 重D音, performed at Beijing Migrant Workers’ Home’s 打工春晚 or Migrant Worker Spring Festival Gala, along with translated lyrics. Zhong D Yin’s name literally means Heavy...
Embracing Confucius, class struggle, funeral strippers, and tunneling Everest – Chuang’s weekly news update
Class and class struggle in China Contours of the class struggle in China Socialist Worker, April 22 “Since the 2008 and the spread of the global economic crisis, China has experienced a sharp rise in class struggle, both in Hong Kong and on the mainland. Ellen David...
Lide shoe workers beaten and arrested during assembly in Guangzhou
Photo from 锤子之声. Last December we translated a report about the strike of 2,500 workers at a Lide shoe factory in Guangzhou – one in a series of struggles at footwear factories in Guangdong that began with the historic strike of 50,000 workers at six Yue Yuen...
A New Silk Road, anti-pollution struggle in the hinterland, fiscal easing to warm the cooling economy and weapons clinking in Southeast Asia – weekly news update, April 20
Photo from the New York Times article linked below Geopolitics of the Silk Road – Chinese government plans massive investments in an attempt to build a new logistics structure across Asia, Africa and Europe China is investing $46 billion to carve out a...
Screwing Screws on the Assembly Line
In response to the interest in Chinese worker poetry stimulated by the late Foxconn poet Xu Lizhi, Chuang is continuing to translate poetry by Chinese workers. Zhou Qizao is a wandering proletarian who has worked in and around Shenzhen since 2004. He was then 19. In...
“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