Between the competition and the capitalists: Guangzhou’s taxi driver strike
Reposted from Nao (October 29, 2014).4 —– 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 few...
No buses are due on Nathan road: Mong Kok occupation 2.0 weekend sum-up
Reposted from Nao.10 — 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).12 —– 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...
New foundations for struggle and solidarity: The culmination of development and privatization on a Guangzhou Island
Reposted from Nao (October 29, 2014).1 —– For nearly a month, garbage piled up throughout the streets of Guangzhou’s edifice to higher education as China saw another cleaner strike. The disgruntled employees are the sanitation workers who keep the...
Twenty-Five Years since the Tiananmen Protests: Legacies of the Student-Worker Divide
Reposted from the Nao (June 4, 2014).1 —– During the protest movement that centered around Tiananmen Square in Beijing twenty-five years ago, workers protested alongside students and intellectuals. But the political relationship between the two social...
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