Another shoe strike in the Pearl River Delta: Lide, Guangzhou Translation of a brief report on a strike of 2,500 workers at a shoe factory in Guangzhou that began…
Sold on promises: China's intra-working class exploitation An interview recorded from memory. This blog is about the upsurges that occur, the cracks that…
Ba Jin and the “Arshinov Platform” A short article on the connection of the great Chinese novelist and anarchist Ba Jin with the Organisational Platform of the Libertarian…
The margins and the centre: for a new history of the Cultural Revolution Repost of an informative reflection on the lessons to be learned from China's "Cultural Revolution"…
Gender, temporality, and the reproduction of labour power. Women migrant workers in South China This excellent article by Hannah Schling on migration and gender in China was just…
Shanghai on strike: the politics of Chinese labor Classic book by Elizabeth Perry on working-class formation during the industrialization of Shanghai from 1839 to 1949, including insight into the…
The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014) Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi (许立志), the Foxconn worker who took his own life on 30 September…
Between the competition and the capitalists: Guangzhou’s taxi driver strike Many of Guangzhou's 40,000 taxi drivers have been on strike over squeezed pay and excessive…
No buses are due on Nathan road - Mong Kok occupation 2.0 weekend sum-up A few observations on the current development of the Mong Kok occupation in Hong Kong.
Crackdown in Guizhou leaves two dead, hundreds injured: Boxun One of the witnesses said the overwhelming number of police, water cannon and police dogs made the square look like a war zone. The number of injured strained the capacity of local hospitals and some patients had to be transferred to other hospitals nearby.
Hotpot, Gods, and "Leftist Pricks": Political Tensions in the Mong Kok Occupation Analysis of events in the Mong Kok occupation (part of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement") from October…
Never retreat, a Mong Kok state of mind "Gritty district has its own breed of protester. Tough, streetwise, and kowtowing to no-one." Introduction to some differences between Mong Kok's…
