Ruo Yan and Andrew Sebald introduce a symposium on the independent working-class struggles in China, calling for international solidarity.
Place: China
Gender and the Chinese Working Class
Zoe Zhao and Olia Shu analyze many forms of exploitation of women workers in China, such as in family workshops and digital platforms, and their resistance.
Labor Solidarity Through Supply Chains
Foxconn and the U.S. Labor Movement
Zhang Mazi highlights the power held by Foxconn workers and calls on US workers to build solidarity, including by targeting Foxconn’s global supply chains.
Between Chinese Surveillance and Israeli Settler Colonialism
On the extensive collaborations between the Chinese and Israeli regimes on surveillance technologies, which are also increasingly used in North America.
The State of Labor Resistance and Repression in China
Julie Liu and Roy Li discuss the trajectory of labour struggles in China in recent years, fighting against severe state repression and censorship.
Activists on U.S.-China Labor Solidarity
Ellen David Friedman, Alex T. Tom and Kevin Lin discuss the experiences and importance of worker-to-worker solidarity for democratic unionism between the US and China.
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 4
Given China’s drivers, it’s difficult to imagine how this trend could be halted or reversed short of the collapse or overthrow of the CCP. That’s coming but of course it’s impossible to predict when.
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 3
If Xi’s Chinese-style modernization has shattered the myth that modern-is-Western, then why is his economy still so dependent on Western science and technology?
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 2
In fact, China’s “miracle” was neither an “unprecedented feat” nor as rapid as the modernizations of its own East Asian neighbors, let alone characterized by “long-term social stability.”
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 1
Xi’s “new type civilization” is the opposite of all this. Instead of enlightenment, emancipation, freedom, critical thinking, science and democracy.
The East Is Not Red
When one surveys the history of American interventionism in other countries—from Brazil to Guatemala, from Cuba to Chile, from Mossadegh’s Iran to Grenada and Nicaragua—and when we contemplate . . .
Solidarity Statement with Protests in China
More than just the lockdown, what motivates these protests is people’s sense of not being heard in a political system that so arrogantly disregards popular opinions.
The United States and China in Latin America: Rival Imperialisms
The United States has long dominated Latin America, but today—in fact for the last twenty years—it is being challenged by China, which has invested billions and established political and some military relationships with many governments in the region.
China: Making the World Safe for Capitalism
Peter Ranis discusses repression, exploitation, and ecological devastation in China’s authoritarian capitalism.
Is China Socialist Because It Reduced Poverty?
Michael Karadjis assesses and rejects the claim that China’s impressive poverty reduction makes it a socialist country.
Our Attitude Towards Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Saturday 26 February 2022,
This petition now circulating among Chinese academics on Chinese social media is being now censored by China’s Internet overseers.
The war began in darkness.
In the early hours of February 22, 2022 (the evening of February 21 in Moscow), . . .
Biden Focuses U.S. Foreign Policy on Challenging China
President Joseph Biden has refocused U.S. foreign policy and military strategy on America’s two great power imperial rivals: Russia and China, particularly the latter.
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