Sold on promises: China’s intra-working class exploitation
Reposted from Nao.15 —– An interview recorded from memory. This blog is about the upsurges that occur, the cracks that appear in China’s system. But sometimes the picture we give out of a China in revolt is rosy in a way that misses the very deep scarring...
The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)
Reposted from Nao (October 29, 2014).18 —– Below are translations of poems by Xu Lizhi (许立志), the Foxconn worker who took his own life on 30 September 2014, at the age of 24, in Shenzhen, China. The translations are by friends of the Nao project, starting...
Between the competition and the capitalists: Guangzhou’s taxi driver strike
Reposted from Nao (October 29, 2014).21 —– On the opening day of the biannual China Import and Export Fair (also known as the Canton Fair), one of the busiest days of the year for Guangzhou taxi drivers, the roads were stuffed, but strangely, there were...
No buses are due on Nathan road: Mong Kok occupation 2.0 weekend sum-up
Reposted from Nao.27 — The “first” Mong Kok occupation was cleared on Friday (17th) after 5:00. The cops first removed the Christian altar on one of the south barricades then the Guanyu shrine in the north. After that they let it rip, tore the road...
Hotpot, Gods, and “Leftist Pricks”: Political Tensions in the Mong Kok Occupation
Reposted from Nao (October 15, 2014).29 —– Analysis of events in the Mong Kok occupation (part of Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Movement”) from October 9 to 11, related to a split between what could roughly be called “left” and...
“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