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China: Another suicide at Foxconn
Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’
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China: Hit by new toxic milk scare
Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products
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China: Zhao Lianhai, tainted milk activist, launches hunger strike in prison
“The government is guilty! The government is not taking responsibility for us!”
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China: State repression against leftist trade unionist
The Chinese police illegally arrested Zhao Dongmin, as the government-controlled puppet trade union accused Maoist activists of "disrupting social order"
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China: Thousands riot against land seizure in Yunnan province
A force of 2,000 People’s Armed Police (PAP) used to suppress massive protest by villagers in China’s southwest
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China: Foxconn “sweatshops” move inland through collusion with provincial bureaucracies
Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]
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EU-China summit: Bigger profits on the backs of Chinese workers
Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament on 21st September 2010 on the EU-China summit
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China: The struggle for grassroots independent unions
Regime announces union ‘reforms’ – is democratisation of the state-run unions on the cards?
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China: Thousands join protests for Cantonese language
Protests have broken out in Guangzhou and Hong Kong over a proposal from Guangzhou-based official Ji Kekuang that Guangdong Television stop its news coverage in Cantonese and go over to Putonghua (Mandarin), China’s official language.
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China: Honda strike a turning point for nascent workers’ movement
A summer of discontent may await the ‘communist’ dictatorship as the giant of labour begins to stir