Chinese workers fight for democracy
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I was leading a meeting last November at Liverpool University’s Guild of Students on the question of a socialist response to the politics of multiculturalism and assimilation.
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AWL London forum: the Beijing Olympics and Chinese workers' struggles
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Date:
28 August, 2008 - 21:30 - 23:30
Location:
The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross London
Description:
A London Workers' Liberty forum
As you watch the Olympic spectacular in August, spare a thought for the workers on Beijing's Olympic construction sites, working for about US$5 a day, under terrible conditions. These workers are part of a hundred of millions-strong workforce that has the potential to transform the country - to overturn a political system that tortures and imprisons its opponents and an economic and social system that rests on super-exploitation.
After decades of economic growth at around 10% a year, the Chinese working class has grown enormously, many millions are migrant workers in China's major cities, as well as migrants who have left China seeking a better life. Not working-class organisation and struggle is on the rise. How long before the Chinese working class discovers the militant traditions of its past, before it was crushed by the Stalinist regime?
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No Sweat leafleting for Chinese workers' rights
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Date:
29 January, 2005 - 14:00
Location:
Chinatown, London. Details: 07719 283132.
Chinese New Year: leaflet for workers' rights in China
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Date:
13 February, 2005 - 11:00
Location:
Chinatown, London
Description:
More: 07719 283 132
More: 07719 283 132
The truth about China
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A top Chinese government official has blamed Europe’s economic problems on welfare provision and labour laws.
Resisting bosses' greed in China and South Korea
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China’s people and its media have defied state censorship to condemn the government’s development drive, which is coming with a terrible cost.
How China's Stalinists deal with strikes
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In a report on the Shanghai truck drivers' dispute, in the Financial Times of 27 April, Jamil Anderlini summarised the Chinese authorities' standard procedure for strikes.
Reviews: John Palmer; SWP; Foley; Wates and Knevvit; Pauline Kael; Davis and Huttenback; Liebman; Marquand
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Martin Thomas reviews "Europe without America", by John Palmer.
Clive Bradley reviews "Revolutionary Rehearsals", published by the SWP's Bookmarks.
Stan Crooke reviews "Ireland, the case for British disengagement", by Conor Foley.
Neil Stonelake reviews "Community Architecture", by Nick Wates and Charles Knevvit.
Belinda Weaver reviews "State of the Art", by Pauline Kael.
Rhodri Evans reviews "Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: the Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912", by Lance Davis, Robert Huttenback, and Susan Gray Davis.
Gerry Bates reviews "Leninism Under Lenin", by Marcel Liebman.
Bryan Edmands reviews "Thank you, Mr Moto", by John P Marquand.
New website maps strikes in China
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Manfred Elfstrom, a PhD student at Cornell University in the United States, has produced an extraordinary resource for the trade union movement.
A Chinese Marxist in the 1920s
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A veteran Chinese Trotskyist describes his time in the Chinese Communist Party, between joining in 1925 and being expelled in 1929.