<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Orsan Senalp</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:35 PM<br>Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [Debate-List] China unleashes ‘white terror’ against protesting workers<br>To: Nw Labour discuss <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> John Devenish <<a href="mailto:Devenishj@ukzn.ac.za" target="_blank">Devenishj@ukzn.ac.za</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 4 Apr 2016 14:13:01 GMT+2<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:debate-list@fahamu.org" target="_blank">debate-list@fahamu.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:debate-list@fahamu.org" target="_blank">debate-list@fahamu.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Debate-List] China unleashes ‘white terror’ against protesting workers</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Wave of repression – over 30 mineworkers arrested after Shuangyashan strike<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">China Worker
</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">3 April 2016</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<b>“We are not rioters”</b><br>
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.<br>
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“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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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