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An anarchist in love with Mao’s China - Herbert Read’s ‘letters from China’ ... Plus a list of dubious accounts of ‘successful’ revolutions, from Russia to Rojava

In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in which perhaps 30 million…

Dagong Diary, Part 1: Job Hunting

Part 1 of a 7-part series recording a short excursion into the lives of migrant workers at the beginning of China’s working year, in an…

Crowded "dormitory" provided by agency company in Hong Kong, with workers sleepi

Elis died of slave-like life in agency center

An Indonesian migrant domestic worker recently died in a Hong Kong work agency hostel. We re-post an article from WKNews that examines the…

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Gender war and social stability in Xi’s China: Interview with a friend of the Women’s Day Five (1st half)

Many friends and associates of the five feminists detained on March 7 are still in…

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Free the Women's Day Five! - Statements from Chinese workers and students

Translation of a statement by the partner of "Da Tu" (Giant Rabbit), one of the feminists detained…

Foxconn suicides continue

Four years later, still a graveyard of Chinese youth

In 2014, on the eve of China’s national day celebrations, scenes recalling those of four years ago appeared in Chinese headlines. Foxconn became…

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Land grabs in contemporary China

Translation of article summarizing original research about land grabs in China since the 1990s, concluding that this ongoing expropriation of…

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"Professor Xu": Laid-off plastics worker becomes China's Walter White

Repost of a story of interest less for its similarity to "Breaking Bad," and more for what this…

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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…

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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…

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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"…