[P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [Debate-List] China unleashes ‘white terror’ against protesting workers

[Michel Bauwens]

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*From:* John Devenish <Devenishj at ukzn.ac.za>
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*China unleashes ‘white terror’ against protesting workers*

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*Wave of repression – over 30 mineworkers arrested after Shuangyashan
strike *China Worker 3 April 2016

The so-called ‘Shuangyashan incident’ – a six-day strike by around 10,000
coal miners in March – has shaken the dictatorship of the CCP (Chinese
Communist Party). It has also, predictably, brought forth a wave of
repression.

In the city of Shuangyashan itself, with a population of just over 1
million, over 30 workers have been arrested on suspicion of organising the
strike and street protests. The city’s Public Security Bureau has
reportedly circulated a ‘wanted list’ with photographs of 75 people they
want to detain.

*“We are not rioters”*
The crackdown in this city close to China’s border with Russia is a
reminder of the high stakes for workers in China if they engage in strikes
or industrial action. This is the case even though – as in most other
strikes in China – workers are only demanding to be paid for their labour.

“We are not rioters, we simply want to get back what we have worked so hard
for,” one Heilongjiang mineworker told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post.

In the case of the Shuangyashan miners, employed by the giant Longmay Group
which is owned by the government of Heilongjiang province, some workers are
still owed wages from 2014. In a political system where unions are illegal
and protest of any kind is punishable by severe repression, workers have
many risks to weigh up before taking strike action. Nevertheless, the
number of strikes has increased dramatically. Strikes last year more than
doubled from the previous year, to almost 2,800. Four-fifths of all strikes
were concerned with recovering unpaid wages.

The CCP regime has stepped up its repression against workers. It fears the
growth of workers’ self-organisation and an independent labour movement
more than any other challenge to its rule. Last year it initiated a
province-wide crackdown on labour rights activists and NGOs in Guangdong
province. In Sichuan province recently the authorities went a step further,
publicly parading and shaming eight construction workers in retribution for
a strike they organised last year. News of this punishment created outrage
from right-minded people on social media.



http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?2,27,3,3692



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