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Tag: Class Struggles

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The Gig Economy Era [in China]: The Saturation of the Employment Reservoir, New Regulations Incite Controversy – 17 September 2025

This is Part 3 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles

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Interviews

Seven Questions on Labour and Economic Reform in Ethiopia. Interview with Samuel Andreas Admasie – 15 September 2025

“Ethiopian working people’s incomes are simply so low that they cannot be pilfered very much further.” Dr. Samuel Andreas Admasie is a researcher and archive

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Young Workers [in China]: “Swallowing our Wretched Shares” – 29 August 2025

This is Part 2 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles

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The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat, by Bill Fletcher, Jr. – 21 August 2025

For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism. In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by

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Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: 2024 Review of Labor Issues in China – 10 August 2025

Preface by Chuang 闯 Since 2020, an anonymous group of netizens has been coming together to prepare an annual review of labor struggles (or, in

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Youthquake – How Kenya’s Gen Z Took on IMF Austerity, by Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy – 25 June 2025

As Kenya marks the first anniversary of the uprising that shook the nation on 25 June 2024, Abdirashid Diriye reflects on the pivotal role played

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What Everyone on the Left Should Know About Taiwan (At the Minimum), by Ralf Ruckus – 17 June 2025

The political left is (potentially) a force to counter right-wing politics, resist nationalist tendencies, and help coordinate social movements that fight against capitalism. But recently,

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Yemen, the Women’s Uprising, by Luiza Toscane – 6 June 2025

Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks. They have demanded water, electricity, a better standard of living, the payment

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China Under Pressure: Popular Mobilisations and Systemic Breaks, by Andrea Ferrario – 5 June 2025

The protests that swept through China between May and early June 2025 highlight deep tensions and dynamics of growing instability in the country’s social fabric

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Noise, Vibration, and Dust: A Wildcat Strike in Armenia’s Largest Mine, by Knar Khudoyan – 1 June 2025

Usually, strikes in Armenia’s furthest mining towns are repressed before journalists can make it there from the capital city, Yerevan. The recent wildcat strike of

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Women’s Day Celebration at the ASHA Workers’ Strike in Thiruvananthapuram and B Team Scheming, by J. Devika – 9 March 2025

Yesterday was a day of great strength, solidarity, and remembrance of women workers’ historic struggles for rights and against tyrants. Support for the striking ASHA

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Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran, by Arya Zahedi – 27 February 2024

From Ill Will Traversing a century of revolution, counter-revolution, and regime change in Iran, Arya Zahedi traces out the social, political, and ideological tensions that

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Statements

Support the ASHA Workers’ Strike in Kerala: An Appeal to Women’s Organisations, Trade Unions, and Malayalis around the World – 23 February 2025

The ASHA workers’ strike in Kerala is entering its third week. We are appalled by the CPI(M)-led government’s apathy and the disgusting ignorance of the

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Against Productivism, by Tom Wetzel – 19 July 2024

Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in

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Books Interviews Podcasts

How Moroccan Jews Challenged Israel. Interview with Asaf Elia-Shalev – 7 June 2024

Asaf Elia-Shalev’s book Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth (University of California Press, 2024) tells the story of the young and impoverished

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“The Roots of the Reactionary Bloc Lie in the Supposed ‘Democratic’ Camp”: Interview with the Slovak Collective Karmína – 18 October 2023

Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a

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Book reviews

Capitalism Is Not a “Free Labor” System, by Yueran Zhang – 10 January 2021

Apologists for capitalism like to point to its historically progressive aspects, like its supposed use of “free labor” rather than older forms of labor compulsion.

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