Tag: Chinese workers
The China Free Trade Agreement isn’t about Chinese workers ‘stealing Australian jobs’; it is about exploitation
Posted by John, September 28th, 2015 - under Jobs, Trade unions, Unions.
Tags: China Free Trade Agreement, Chinese workers
Comments: 1
In the latest edition of Solidarity James Supple rebuts the argument that under the China Free Trade Agreement Chinese workers will ‘steal’ Australian jobs. He says in part: ‘The problem is not with migrant workers coming here but the potential for exploitation as a result of the new agreements. Instead of a xenophobic campaign, […]
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The crisis in China’s economy
Posted by John, August 6th, 2015 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Boom and bust, China, Chinese workers
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In an article written for Red Flag, and republished in Socialist Worker US, Tom Bramble looks at the crisis in China’s economy.
Tiananmen Square: lessons for the future for the Chinese working class
Posted by John, June 3rd, 2014 - under Revolution, Tiananmen Square.
Tags: China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese workers
Comments: 5
Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It has the strength to overthrow the corrupt and bankrupt butchers in Beijing and their sons and daughters. Having done that the Chinese working class will be forced to take the revolution beyond bourgeois political demands and threaten capitalism in China itself. Then and only then can we talk about genuine socialism, the self-emancipation of the working class through its own democratic organs to organise production to satisfy human need, not to make a profit.
Support colleagues striking for press freedom at the Southern Weekend Newspaper, Guangzhou
Posted by John, January 8th, 2013 - under Strikes.
Tags: China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese workers, Free speech
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Please add my name to the Media Alliance letter to show my support to my colleagues at Southern Weekend in their fight for press freedom and the fundamental principles of journalism.
Tiananmen Square: remembering the past and imagining the future
Posted by John, June 5th, 2012 - under Revolution, Tiananmen Square.
Tags: China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese workers, Democracy
Comments: 2
Tiananmen Square was a dress rehearsal for the future. The Chinese working class has a material interest in democracy. It has the strength to overthrow the corrupt and bankrupt butchers in Beijing.
Having done that the Chinese working class will be forced to take the revolution beyond bourgeois political demands and threaten capitalism in China itself. Then and only then can we talk about genuine socialism, the self-emancipation of the working class through its own democratic organs of societal control.
Yes to Chinese workers; no to ‘Aussie’ nationalism
Posted by John, May 30th, 2012 - under Nationalism, Paul Howes, Racism.
Tags: 457 visas, CFMEU, Chinese workers, Dave Oliver, Doug Cameron, EMAs, Enterprise migration agreements, Foreign workers
Comments: 9
The ramifications of the collapse in class struggle are clear for all to see – growing inequality, more wealth being shovelled to the wealthy, long working hours, high levels of disguised unemployment and politically a cowered trade union movement meek in its mildness and terrifying in its timidity, with a Labor Party whose raison d’etre appears almost indistinguishable from the Tories.
Instead of attacking Chinese and other ‘foreign’ workers we should welcome them and fight for them. In doing that can we begin rebuilding our capacity as a movement to defend all jobs and help keep at bay the nationalist flag of racism.