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China sex workers 'abused by police'

LabourWorld — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:26:52 +0000

China in Revolt

LabourWorld — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:17:05 +0000

Issue 7-8: Emancipation
Essays
by Eli Friedman
http://jacobinmag.com/category/blogs/

Socialist China Should Demand Press Freedom

LabourWorld — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:21:51 +0000

"Common Sense" Editorial Group

This article by Chinese students argues that since Marx and Engels came out in defense of freedom of speech in 1848, a socialist country should therefore guarantee freedom of speech.

The incident of Nanfang Weekly reporters coming out in defense of their right to publish reports without censorship is worthy of attention because it is the first time, since 1989, that people within the establishment have demanded press freedom and the first time that ordinary people and students have publicly supported that political demand.

Chronology of the Intervention on Press Freedom in the Nanfang Weekend Incident

LabourWorld — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:09:30 +0000

CHINA ARRESTS MORE ACTIVISTS FOR URGING PROTESTS

LabourWorld — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:46:27 +0000

AFPMarch 14, 2011, 7:59 am

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BEIJING (AFP) - Police in China have arrested and charged more activists with subversion, rights groups say, as online calls Sunday urged Chinese to join anti-government rallies for the fourth week running.

Guo Weidong, 38, was charged with "inciting subversion" Friday after he posted Internet calls for protesters to attend rallies marking the "Jasmine revolution," the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in China said.

China police stop spread of Egypt news: activist

LabourWorld — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:56:34 +0000

(AFP) – 2 days ago

BEIJING — Police in southwest China have barred activists from distributing leaflets about anti-government protests in Egypt and Tunisia, deeming the news too sensitive, one dissident said Wednesday.

Activists in Guizhou province tried to hand out information about the demonstrations over the weekend, but police told them this was an "unusual period" and gave them 3,000 yuan ($450) to stop, Chen Xi told AFP.

Land Rent, House Rent and Distribution of Wealth: The Logic of Capital in the Urbanization of the Guangdong Rural Since 1979

wkf — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:56:20 +0000

Siu Yu-Kwan discusses Marx's rent theory.

The Games Behind the Giant City and Express Railway

wkf — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:27:30 +0000

In this article, Lau Yu-fan analyses the relationship betwe

Book review: Karl Marx in Beijing

Admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:40:38 +0000

Source: "International Socialism", Issue: 123, 25 June 09
By Jeong Seong-jin
Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing (Verso, 2007), £14.99
Translation by Owen Miller

The following review was written by Jeong Seong-jin, professor of economics at Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. Professor Jeong is the author of a number of books in Korean, including Marx and the Korean Economy and Marx and Trotsky. He is also co-editor of the English-language volume Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy (Ashgate, 2007), editor of the bilingual journal Marxism21 and translator (into Korean) of An Anticapitalist Manifesto and The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Alex Callinicos.

China: End of a Model -- Or the Birth of a New One?

Admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:37:25 +0000

By Au Loong Yu

(Author’s note: This article was first published in the summer issue 2009 of the US journal New Politics. This slightly revised version corrected two translation mistakes and a minor error in the footnotes. September 3, 2009.)

China’s thirty years of nearly uninterrupted high growth has encountered great challenge as global economic crisis has hit China’s export hard. Since China’s trade as a percentage of GDP is as high as 70%, the export-led growth mode has practically ended. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is aware of this. Back in April 2008 President Hu Jintao spoke of the need to change the mode of development from export-led growth to domestic-led growth by expanding domestic demand. In November the 4 trillion RMB of rescue package followed. The economy is slowing down, and the target of the rescue package at “Baoba,” or keeping the growth rate at 8 percent, is hard to achieve. Nevertheless, with a slower growth rate of 5-6 percent, which most commentators are speculating, is still outstanding when the US and EU are sinking further into deep recession. The global downturn on one hand and China’s relative strength in containing the crisis on the other makes the topic “the rise of China” more heated than ever.