On July 27, 2018, police arrested thirty protesters in Shenzhen, including 29 Jasic Technology workers and a university student. Shen Mengyu, the recent graduate who stood in solidarity with the protesting workers, has since been completely cut off from communications. More recently, the (...)
• Police make arrests in Hunan and Guangdong provinces on Sunday evening in what appears to be coordinated crackdown
• They are accused of ‘disturbing public order’
At least five Chinese activists have been arrested by police for allegedly “disturbing public order” in what appears to be a (...)
Last July, 89 workers at the Jasic company in Shenzhen applied to found a workplace union but their application was refused and later their leaders were temporarily arrested. This escalated the confrontation between workers and the local authority, and several dozen Maoist students from all (...)
Protesters describe themselves as fervent Marxists and Maoists, presenting a unique problem for Communist party
At least 10 young Chinese labour protesters have been detained as part of a crackdown targeting a rise in student activism at elite universities across the country.
Groups of (...)
Yue Xin was detained along with about 50 other activists, many of them young Marxists, who joined campaign for union rights at Jasic Technology
A young rights activist who called for China’s top university to be transparent about its investigation of a rape case and joined a labour dispute in (...)
After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial (...)
In July this year, 89 workers at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co. Ltd demanded the right to set up a workplace union. In the past decade there has been an explosion of strikes in Shenzhen, and this dispute is one of the many where workers have demanded better working conditions, owed wages, (...)
Activists in Shenzhen last month protested in support of workers’ rights. Their banners call for the punishment of corrupt police officials and the release of detained factory workers.
HUIZHOU, China — They were exactly what China’s best universities were supposed to produce: young men and women (...)
More than 50 students and workers were arrested this summer during a weeks-long struggle to form a union at Jasic Technology in Shenzhen, China. A group of workers in China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzhen tried something very rare this summer—they attempted to follow the legal process to set up a (...)
Please join us in signing and sharing this petition to call for the immediate release of the workers and their student allies unjustly arrested for union organising and solidarity actions at Shenzhen Jasic Technology in China since July 2018.
[ESSF has signed the petition. We shall update the (...)
[Note of Update as of 6th Sep 2018]
1. 238 international scholars have joined the co-sign.
2. With the pressure and support from the concern group, international scholars and activists, some of the arrestees were released but still under different level of monitor and control. According to (...)
Bellicose pronouncements from Washington and crackdowns from Beijing aren’t stifling China’s labor movement.
The bellicose news headlines that are spewed daily from the Trump administration might give the impression that most Chinese workers are engaged in just one occupation: collectively (...)
The Hong Kong civil society continue to support the Jasic workers and their supporters, despite the bulk of the supporters groups were arrested and detained by the Chinese Government. Some 30 representatives of the Hong Kong civil society including workers and students marched on to the (...)
Last month students and recent graduates from more than a dozen mainland Chinese universities stood up in solidarity support with workers of Jasic Technology, a private company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The student activists include those from the Peking University, Tsinghua (...)
Asia Transnational Corporation Monitoring Network Indonesia secretariat August 29, 2018 Premier Li Keqiang The State Council of the People’s Republic of China No. 8, Yuetan South Street, Xicheng District, Beijing Peoples’ Republic of China 100017 Email: premier mail.gov.cn Premier Li, I (...)
Worker Empowerment reacts to the official report on the Jasic event published by Xinhua News, which we are reproducing below. Xinhua wrote that the “investigation found an unregistered illegal organization named ’dagongzhe zhongxin’ or ’center for migrant workers’ was instigating and supporting the (...)
Video shows police storming flat used by students backing workers seeking union rights
Activists supporting the factory workers are pictured inside an apartment in Huizhou. Photograph: Sue-Lin Wong/Reuters
Fifty student activists have gone missing in southern China after police raided an (...)
Jasic factory workers are facing extreme repression after their attempt to form a representative union in a Jasic welding machine factory in Shenzen, southeastern China. A solidarity movement has spread in support the Jasic workers, resulting in the abduction and forced disappearance of several (...)
Over the past week, activist and leftist corners Chinese social media have again exploded in courageous demonstrations of solidarity for a group of workers and their supporters being persecuted by the twin hands of capital and the local state, this time in Pingshan District, Shenzhen. There, at (...)
Mengyu stands outside NHK with a shirt reading “illegal factory” – Photo not reproduced here.
The industrial district grad student
In June 2015, I graduated from the Sun Yat-Sen University School of Mathematics and Computational Science. But unlike my peers, I didn’t choose a job in high-rise (...)
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