In the meantime, neither orphans of the labour movement, nor prophets of the communism to come, we participate in the class struggle as it is on a daily basis and as it produces theory.
Liberals call for Uyghur rights but support Israel’s genocide, while tankies clamor for the liberation of Palestine but dismiss the labor camps in Xinjiang as a hoax by US imperialism.
When we are outraged by the plight of the Chained Woman of Feng County, how can we separate ourselves from our Uyghur sisters?
Racialization… is a historical feature of global capitalism and the imperial economic expropriation on which it depends….
The theme of “enlightenment” had been frequently revisited since the socialist era, but “national salvation” was not reactivated until this moment in 1999.
China’s job structure is becoming more dependent on the service sector and moving away from agriculture, mining, manufacturing and construction.
Since this type of activism emerged in the wake of migrant struggles in the coastal export-processing zones, we should not be surprised that state repression could so easily destroy these networks …