China
Content about workers' struggles and events in China.
Jin, Ba, 1904-2005
A short biography of anarchist, author and "grand old man of Chinese literature", according to The Guardian, Ba Jin.
Ba Jin
Aka Li Feigan, Pa Jin, born 25 November 1904 - Chengdu, Sichuan, died 17 October 2005 - China
Chinese villagers riot over land grab
Up to ten thousand Chinese villagers blockaded a warehouse in the village of Sanzhou in the southern province of Guangdong last week, claiming it had been built on land seized illegally by the Chinese government.
The villagers barricaded around 300 officials and foreign businessmen in the warehouse during its official opening, and were attacked by up to 1,000 riot police using batons, attack dogs and tear gas, holding the building overnight until they were dispersed in the morning.
China's emerging labour movement
A look at the burgeoning workers' movement in China and how it is attempting to organise in a country where the only union is run by the state.
Trade unionists in the US and elsewhere have long argued that there is no labor movement in China. They rightly point out that Chinese workers lack even the most basic human rights protections, including the rights to strike and join an independent union.
Dimensions of Chinese Anarchism - an interview with Arif Dirlik
An interview with historian and academic Arif Dirlik about anarchism's rich history in China.
Anarchism in North China, 1910-1934
Some personal recollections of the anarchist movement in Northern China.
In the village where I was born there is a monument in a square erected by the trades unions where fifteen Anarchists were executed as common criminals engaged in a conspiracy against the Empress in her last terror-stricken days. They were buried in a common grave which became a place of honour to the common people, who preserved it carefully.
1894-1931: Anarchism in Korea
A short history of anarchism and the anarchist movement in North and South Korea.
In the 2,000 years of Korean history there arose movements fighting for peasants rights and for national independence. Within these movements there were tendencies that may be seen as forerunners of modern anarchism, in the same way as we might view the Diggers in the English revolution.
China: Capitalism works you to death - literally
Following another worker's death, Ret Marut examines the conditions in China's factories.
Every year, 8.5 million Chinese peasants move into cities. Yang Xixiang left her village and family in the Chongqing area of central China in 1992 to find work in the city. She needed to support her husband's hepatitis B treatment.
1922: The Hong Kong strike
The history of a huge general strike in Hong Kong which won many concessions, including a 20% pay hike.
Hong Kong, Pearl of The Orient? Bastion of democracy against communism? Or a battleground for 200 years between worker and master?
Bakunin on trial
The ghost of Bakunin appears in a Chinese courtroom to haunt bureaucratic Maoism! The incident described below occurred in the aftermath of the Chinese 'Cultural Revolution'. The power battles between opposing factions of the ruling bureaucratic elite in Maoist China set in motion great upheavals and mobilizations of students and workers that sometimes went further than either ruling faction intended, as can be seen below.
China and Vietnam: Thousands of clothing workers strike
In Shangdong, China, more than 1,000 textile workers were on strike last week, while in Vietnam around 4,000 workers at a shoe factory struck for a wage increase.
China Labour Bulletin and VietNamNet reported:
More than 1,000 workers at the cloth-weaving section of the Heze Cotton Textile Factory, formerly a state-owned enterprise, in Shandong have been staging a strike against low pay since 10 February.
