Unionists vs. the union: letters from the July 20th Incident in Pingshan
Translated statements from workers and their supporters held in criminal detention for organizing a union at an industrial equipment plant in Shenzhen
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“Let the People Themselves Decide Whether We’re Guilty”
Update on the “Eight Young Leftists” persecuted by Guangzhou police last winter, analysis of their case, and translation of Huang Liping’s open letter.
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Fear and Loathing in “the Pacified South”: Conspiracies and SEZs in Vietnam
An insurgent popular nationalism is rapidly gaining cross-class traction in Vietnam. Sunday’s events suggest the VCP is unable to control domestic Sinophobia.
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Turning out engines
Interview on auto parts plant workers in Guangdong since the 2010 strike wave
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Marx Pays a Visit to Foxconn
Translation and commentary on a cartoon from independent workers’ media.
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The Hermit and the Empire: China after the Collapse of the Developmental Regime
Preview of our journal’s second issue: Introduction to Part II of our economic history of China, on the tortuous reintegration into capitalism from 1969 to 2001.
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“The Mastermind”: A Third Young Leftist Speaks Out on the November 15th Incident
Translation of a third open letter by one of the eight young participants in a student reading group who have been accused of “conspiring to disrupt social order.” Four released on bail awaiting trial after a month in detention, four still in hiding.
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Locked Up for Reading Books: Voices from the November 15th Incident
Translations of letters by two of the four young activists arrested at Guangdong University of Technology two months ago, and our brief commentary.
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Adding Insult to Injury: Beijing’s Evictions and the Discourse of “Low-End Population”
Translation of an article and a photo-essay from Tootopia, followed by our commentary.
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“Bluegogo’s CEO has apologised, but I still haven’t gotten my wages and can’t pay rent”
Translation of Jianjiao’s commentary on the collapse of all but two of the many bike-share companies that bubbled up last year, and on the discourse of the hard-working, risk-taking CEO.
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“The Germans don’t care, so we have to fight for ourselves” (德国人不管，我们自己奋斗吧)
Report on the year-long struggle and repression of temp agency workers at the FAW-VW joint venture in Changchun, and their unsuccessful effort to win support from German unionists in Volkswagen’s global works council, in the context of labor conflicts at several VW plants in Europe.
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Three Theses on the Crisis in Rakhine
Analysis of the clear, if not always direct, relationship between the Rohingya crisis & the (largely Chinese-invested) development projects that are sweeping Rakhine & other parts of Myanmar, with dynamics comparable to trends in western China.
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Drinking Tea with China’s ‘National Treasure’: Five Questions
Translation of a police encounter with two feminists in southern China, and a commentary on the limits of state power
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Class Combat
Reflections on proletarian physical culture in Trump’s America & Xi’s China through the lens of Chinese revolutionary history
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“Study the crotch-kick & use it for self-defense against sexual harassment!”
Translation from a Chinese leftist platform promoting the study of martial arts for women’s self-defense against sexual harassment on mass transit — both for immediate use and as a step toward broader social change.
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“We should all be feminists”? Repression, recuperation and China’s new women-only metro carriages
What can Guangdong’s ‘priority carriages for women’ and concurrent repression of feminists tell us about the Chinese state’s strategies for dealing with social antagonism?
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The contradictory rise of China: an interview with Chuang by InfoAut
InfoAut asked us some questions about recent developments in China and its international relations. Here are our responses.
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Đình công tự phát: wildcat strikes in post-socialist Vietnam
Overview and analysis of the frequent wildcat strikes in Vietnam’s export-processing sector, focusing on their political significance
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Working for Amazon in China, where the global giant is a dwarf
Results of an inquiry into the situation of Amazon warehouse workers in China — part of a project on ecommerce, logistics and supply chains by the “Inbound/Outbound Notes” collective.
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