Growing up in 1990s China, Yangyang Cheng encountered two contradictory narratives about what it meant to be a worker. In older periodicals and occasionally in
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How has the situation with labor rights in healthcare changed since February 2022? Why is the state closing hospitals and cutting medical staff as the
First, I would like to thank the international revolutionary community for their consistent support of the Ukrainian resistance. It is not a self-evident position: a
On Sunday, June 14, 2026, pensioners from Shush, Karkheh and Haft-Tappeh, towns in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, again gathered outside the local Social Security office,
Greetings to all the workers and toilers throughout Iran. A few days ago, we received news that was both happy and sad. We learned that
From Rest of World Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech’s AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital
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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
Manfred Elfstrom is a political scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research focuses on labour protests in China, the state’s authoritarian
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, we were taught that the kings gave us everything we needed. That oil was a blessing from God. That obedience
Murad Gattal spoke to Azerbaijani trade unionists and left-wing activists about the state of society following Ilham Aliyev’s election for the fifth presidential term and
In ‘The Left in China: A Political Cartography’ (Pluto Press, 2023), Ralf Ruckus traces the fascinating history of left-wing, subversive, and oppositional forces in China
Introduction: From Resisting Neoliberalism to Embracing Illiberalism Reviving “working class politics” seemed a panacea to reverse the declining strength of the US Left since the