On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 04:31 PM, Glenn Kissack wrote: Ultra-left? After the U.S., China has the most billionaires in the world.
> > You might want to take a look at the film “Mardi Gras: Made in China”: > > https://vimeo.com/ondemand/9808 > > Or read Pao-yu Ching’s essay: > > https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/N01-From-Victory-to-Defeat-5th-Printing.pdf > > Skipping past the history of China under Mao, which we are all too familiar with, Pao-yu Ching paints a very different picture of China here than many leftists have been taught to believe. If you put aside the economic growth, what he says of China,after Deng,and before Xi Jinping could almost be describing the lot of the Russian working and agricultural classes after the fall of the Soviet Union. Much of the bleak picture painted here seems to focus on the period from 1978-2010.He is right, the dismantling of the commune system was a big mistake, and China's agriculture has suffered greatly as a result. Hasn't Xi iniatied significant reforms, in favor of workers, since taking office, in 2013? The same would apply to the abuses of the rural class cited here,that would go back before 2003 (!) , This is a site I found very informative about labor issues in China https://clb.org.hk/content/workers%E2%80%99-rights-and-labour-relations-china ( https://clb.org.hk/content/workers%E2%80%99-rights-and-labour-relations-china ) > > China's paramount leader, Xi Jinping, has on numerous occasions since 2013 > called on the ACFTU to do a better job in helping low-paid workers achieve > their “China dream.” In November 2015, he formally launched a trade union > reform initiative, designed to shake up the organization and improve the > way union officials carry out their work. Specifically, the reform > initiative had two main objectives: 1. “eliminate four impediments” to the > ACFTU’s work: regimentation, bureaucratisation, elitism, and > frivolousness; and 2. “increase three positive attributes” of the > organization: political consciousness, progressiveness, and popular > legitimacy. In essence, what this jargon means is that the ACFTU must > abandon its old bureaucratic ways and focus on concrete measures that > could both help workers and restore its own reputation. This site also has many pages about worker's strikes in China,here are a couple. https://www.clb.org.hk/sites/default/files/archive/en/share/File/general/Collective_Bargaining_at_Shenzhen.pdf https://www.clb.org.hk/content/taking-stand-trade-union-chairman-fights-back-against-walmart Pao-yu Ching is correct when he talks about China and pollution. Moving away from coal is a big problem for China, Fracking in China is unregulated. Not that much different than the USA? There is much work that still needs to be done to move China away from fossil fuels. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/world/asia/china-shale-gas-fracking.html I have much greater hope in China meeting carbon standards than I do the USA doing the same. Also the left,and unions, are stronger in China, than they will ever be in the reactionary USA. This Film about the Tai Kuen bead factory is from 2005, and is now quite outdated. I know since then, the Chinese government has taken full, or partial, control back of may factories and companies. It would be interesting to learn if Tai Kuen is one of them. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7886): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7886 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81477310/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
