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An interview with a volunteer at an independent left publication and organization in mainland China
In an age where young people have become increasingly trapped within the culture of consumerism, where the third film in the Tiny Times series grossed 5.2 billion yuan at the box offices in one (...)
, by QIAN Ben-li
LAST JULY, 2018, 89 workers at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co. Ltd. demanded the right to set up a workplace union. Although over the past decade there have been a growing number of disputes and strikes by Shenzhen workers, the Jasic case is unusual because it was openly supported by a group (...)
, by AU Loong Yu
China’s 1989 democratic movement saw intellectuals and students excluding workers from the very beginning. After the failure of that democratic movement, intellectuals soon divided into liberals and the New Left, cleaved by the false dichotomy of “state versus market.” Intellectuals may have (...)
, by BLANCHARD Ben, SHEPHERD Christian
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police detained a well-known Marxist at a top university on Wednesday, a witness said, on the sensitive anniversary of the 125th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, whose legacy remains deeply contested.
Qiu Zhanxuan, head of the Peking University (...)
, by WILPERT Gregory, XU Zhun
Chinese university students, inspired by their studies of Marx, are facing an increasing state crackdown on their movement in support of workers who have been trying to organize Shenzhen’s Jasic Technology. Prof. Zhun Xu analyzes the situation. GREG WILPERT: It’s The Real News Network and I’m (...)
, by SONAM Palden
Students are finding out the hard way that there is a huge gap between pure Marxism and the Chinese brand.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded on the ideological foundation of Marxism in 1921 and led the country to a revolution-fueled bloody civil war, in which the communists emerged (...)
, by War on Want
Left-feminist student group dissolved by force and members facing harassment, prison.
In November 2017, police in China stormed a left-wing student reading group at the Guangdong University of Technology where eight students were arrested and jailed on trumped up charges. Since then, their families have been harassed and intimidated. Sun Ting Ting – the only woman released on bail – has been forced to report into police station, and in February 2018 she was violently removed from a train when (...)
, by FRIEDMAN Eli
China’s leftist revival is overstated. The country’s new “Maoists” cede too much ground to nationalism and the market.
“It’s a golden period to be a leftist in China.” At least that was the assessment of Minzu University of China professor and well-known Maoist Zhang Hongliang in a recent New York (...)
, by CARTER Lance
In a country where the Communist Party has dominated “left-wing” politics for over sixty years, dissent has often been deemed a “right-wing” or “counterrevolutionary” affair. Subsequently, many dissidents and parts of the general population have embraced the term “right-wing” as implying something (...)
, by AU Loong Yu
Review of Wang Hui, The End of Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, London: Verso, 2010, 272 pp., $26.95. The publisher of Wang Hui’s book described it as follows: “arguing that China’s revolutionary history and its current liberalization are part of the same discourse of modernity, Wang (...)
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