Until the End of the World: Notes on a Coup
By Soe Lin Aung 1 2 As night fell in Yangon this week, the city echoed every night with the sound of residents banging pots and pans and drivers honking their horns—noise to drive away evil spirits. In Mandalay, medical workers gathered in formation, their masked...
Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System
Around the world, previously invisible delivery personnel have achieved a new prominence in popular consciousness as “frontline workers” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As the emergency has highlighted both the importance and the dangers of delivery work, strikes...
Scaling the Firewall, 1: #LiftTheBucket
First intake in a series from our friend G. —Chuang The following is the first of a new series of investigations into Chinese social media, compiling information on trends in social phenomena that I believe can provide additional context for readers outside the...
Worker organising under the pandemic: reflections from China
Below is our translation of an anonymous Chinese article from the mainland left blog Worker Study Room (工人自习室), originally published in May 2020. It is the only attempt we’re aware of to provide a systematic overview of workers’ lives and job conditions, labour...
Measuring the Profitability of Chinese Industry: Data Brief
Introduction The specter of looming depression now sits on our immediate horizon.[i] But, in speaking about the secular crisis of capitalism and the position of China within this global crisis, it is essential to cut to the core of the question. On the one hand, this...
“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