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Labor strikes are rising in China as weak demand sees factories shutter and workers’ pay cut.
Strikes in China’s manufacturing sector are rising amid a shaky domestic economic recovery and a global economy still weighed down by the war in Ukraine and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (...)
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (...)
• As stable manufacturing jobs become affected by the global economic downturn, what is the role of international brands in China’s widespread factory layoffs, relocations, and closures, and how can China’s official trade union take advantage of a confluence of stakeholder interests to better (...)
The intake below was written by Wen, a comrade from mainland China who was active in labor-support work there throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. Most of it was originally written in January 2020, just after the last labor activists of the 2010s had been detained, forced to (...)
Note: The Chinese original article is [here->https://borderless-hk.com/2023/01/14/why-did-foxconn-workers-protests-in-zhengzhou-happen-the-seven-evil-deeds-of-foxconn-the-ccp-and-apple. Through carefully reviewing the whole processes of the protests the author indicted the collusion between (...)
要求苹果公司承担其社会责任，彻查郑州富士康事件
We request that Apple Inc. take on its social responsibility to thoroughly investigate the incident at Zhengzhou’s Foxconn factory
自十月末以来，社交媒体上涌现出大量来自中国河南省的视频，接着境内外传媒也报道，显示当地富士康工人正在遭受残酷且荒谬的对待。
Since early October, footage depicting Foxconn workers’ experience of (...)
Stories of workers escaping from Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory in China have been circulating on Chinese social media. Fearful of COVID-19 inflection and confined to the factory compound, some workers panicked and fled home. To bring forward a worker’s perspective on why and how they fled, we (...)
Cities near Foxconn plant draw up plans to isolate migrant workers who are returning to home towns
Cities in central China have hastily drawn up plans to isolate migrant workers fleeing to their home towns from the country’s largest iPhone factory, amid fears they will spread coronavirus (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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