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THERE WAS outrage in China last month after bank depositors seeking the return of their savings were targeted by state security forces.
In particular, banks in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, saw protests by over 1,000 bank depositors. They were, however, attacked by plainclothes police and (...)
The HKU doctoral student has long had an interest in social issues on the mainland and had attracted the attention of state security personnel He did not seem worried about being questioned, according to his friends. But then he was detained.
Fang Ran was not alarmed when his belongings, (...)
Fang Ran, a 26-year-old Chinese citizen, was arrested in late August in mainland China. Since then, his relatives have had no news of him. According to his father, he is being held without trial and without access to a lawyer, in a secret location. This type of six-month solitary confinement is (...)
One of the friends said Fang Ran was passionate about social issues and was “not afraid of speaking out whenever he sees some injustice.”
A researcher from the University of Hong Kong has been detained by police in China, friends said Wednesday, while studying the politically thorny issue of (...)
In China, as in many countries, rights are enshrined by law in such a way that workers are expected to act as “firefighters” who self-enforce their rights by sounding the “fire alarm” at labor departments and courts to force senior officials to uphold labor standards. If workers sound the alarm by (...)
Chen Yi reports on the 996 working hour system which has become prevalent in China over the last few years.
[Note: 996 means working from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. The author is a frequent contributor to left wing websites. The original Chinese article is here
May 4 is China’s Youth Day, (...)
It is time for mainland Chinese leftists to abandon unrealistic fantasies and turn towards concrete foundations
[(Lausan Editor’s note: This translation of a short post by the mainland Chinese Marxist-Leninist “Cherry Commune” from 2020 is an exhortation to other mainland leftists to rethink its (...)
Zipping along Beijing’s streets on an electric scooter with sometimes death-defying speed, Chen Guojiang delivered hundreds of take-out food orders a day.Along the way, he filmed short videos that documented the viciously competitive conditions for China’s estimated 3 million workers who use (...)
China’s best-known food delivery worker activist, Chen Guojiang, was detained on 25 February and has been held at Beijing’s Chaoyang district detention centre since.
In mid-March, his family was formally notified that Chen is accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (寻衅滋事), the (...)
Rural-urban migrant workers in China often do not receive the same benefits at the workplace as their urban counterparts. This column uses a rich longitudinal survey to study the effects of union presence on the welfare of migrant workers. It finds that relative to workplaces without unions or (...)
Ten years since the Foxconn suicides, Mainland Chinese workers continue to suffer under the company’s exploitative practices.
2020 marks ten years since the Foxconn suicides. The 18 successive suicides of young workers and the uncovering of conditions on Foxconn’s shop floors in 2010 set off a (...)
In early September, China’s two main food delivery platforms, Meituan and Ele.me, were stunned by an expose in People (人物) magazine of the intense working conditions endured by industry employees on a daily basis.
The article (外卖骑手，困在系统里) revealed in detail how food delivery workers were essentially (...)
Between May and July of 2018, several workers at Shenzhen Jasic attempted to form a union, but were dismissed from the factory. In mid-July, these former employees obtained support from people outside Jasic (including university students, workers from other factories and former Jasic employees (...)
After the pandemic, China’s workers take another hit from widespread flooding.
Tens of millions of people have been affected by this year’s devastating floods across central China, mostly in the relatively poorer provinces of Jiangxi and Anhui, as well as around Wuhan, the locus of the Covid-19 (...)
Five well-known labour activists returned home Thursday evening, more than 15 months after they were arrested in a coordinated police raid on 21 January 2019. https://clb.org.hk/content/well-known-labour-activists-detained-shenzhen-police
The families and associates of Wu Guijun, Zhang Zhiru, (...)
After a month in which there were virtually no worker protests in China because much of the country was on lockdown, workers are beginning to take collective action again. Many protests have been related to the economic distress caused by the covid-19 epidemic.
China Labour Bulletin’s Strike (...)
2018-07-28 Chuang: Unionists vs. the union - letters from the July 20th Incident in Pingshan, and Jasic Workers’ Petition. http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article45760
2018-08-10 Mimi Lau (SCMP): Chinese Maoists join students in fight for workers’ rights at Jasic Technology (with links (...)
This is a short summary of the “Jasic Movement,” the wave of repression that followed, and the debate among left-wing groups in China on the current state of class struggles and forms of labor support in China. It is followed by a list of selected articles on the “Jasic Movement” in English and (...)
Veteran labour activist Liu Shaoming is scheduled to be released from jail tomorrow (28 November) after serving a four and a half year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power" (2). He is being held in the northern Guangdong city of Shaoguan and is reportedly in reasonable health and (...)
An old man sitting on the bench. Image Credit: Flickr / timquijano
As part of research into the lives of first generation and long-term migrant workers[2], Globalization Monitor surveyed 651 workers about social insurance and plans for retirement[3]. The migrant workers were living and working (...)
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