@kabrams You may find interesting this collection on the #WorkersMovement in #China and its century-long #dialectic with the #ChineseCommunistParty ( #CCP ).

#ProletarianChina #CenturyOfChineseLabour

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/12/01/proletarian-china/

Second thing exciting to me this morning: oral history from a worker at a Honda plant in China.

http://chuangcn.org/journal/two/the-awakening-of-lin-xiaocao/

When I visited Guangzhou in 2014 with a group of Japanese labor activists/scholars before Xi's crack down, we met with workers, activists, scholars, and one or two sympathetic officials of the local branch of the official, state-controlled union. Broken up and driven underground now, but Germinal-like, still working & organizing.

#China
#workersmovement
#RankAndFile

Love this picture of my friend Yunoki san, who we all refer to as "legend" because of her decades of struggle for democratic unionism and women's liberation. In the first photo she's on strike against the merger of Showa Oil and Shell Oil, in 1984. The men are managers, monitoring and mocking her. In the second one she is at a May Day demo calling for parental leave for men and women and protesting firings.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20181210000851.html
#japan
#workersmovement
#womensliberation

Busy days, planning a symposium on worker coops and unions in Tokyo on Nov. 15. #workersmovement #solidarityeconomy #coopsnunions #labornotes