The Harsh Winter of Your Employment Safeguards the Economic Growth of the Nation
Translation of an article from the Chinese Marxist left, looking at debt, growth and crisis in the Chinese economy, with our commentary
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Other Voices from the Anti-Extradition Movement
Translations of two Chinese texts, perspectives within the movement not clear from mainstream accounts, with our commentary
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Seeing through Muddied Waters, Part 1: Jasic, Strikes & Unions
First in a series of engagements with “the Jasic Movement” & the resurgence of Maoism in relation to broader trends of class struggle in China, focusing on Pun Ngai’s April speech about the movement as a point of entry.
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Winter is Coming: China 2018-2019 (Wildcat)
Overview of the past year’s events & trends in China, translated from German magazine Wildcat.
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Tiananmen Square & the March into the Institutions
Excerpt from “Red Dust” (part 2 of our economic history of China from Chuang 2: Frontiers), about the role of the 1989 Tiananmen Movement in China’s transition to capitalism, especially how the split between students & workers in the movement expressed the emergence of new classes.
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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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Update October 1: Issue 2, “Frontiers,” is finally nearing completion. (See overview & preview pieces here.) We just need a few hundred $ more & we’ll be ready. Thanks for the donations so far — almost there.
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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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