Revolutionary Socialist Media gives full support to the striking workers at the Jasic Technology factory in Shenzhen China. Class struggle is growing now that Chinese workers dare to fight back against the capitalist class and their supporters in the Chinese ‘’Communist’’ Party (CCP). The reaction from Xi Jinping is what we expected. The police arrested many strike leaders, among them is Shen Mengyu. She was eating diner when the regimes security forces took her by force into an unmarked car. Nobody has heard from Shen since 11 August. What makes her special is that Shen is a Maoist, a supporter of Mao Zedong and a critic of the CCP regime. Her arrest shows that even supporters of Mao are not free to criticize the state-capitalist government!
It all started in July this year, when 1.000 workers of the Jasic Technology factory in Shenzhen decided to set up an independent trade union. Free trade unions are not allowed in the People’s Republic of China. All workers are required to join the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. 300 million Chinese are members, but this ‘’trade union federation’’ is a state controlled entity. It works to keep the workers in line with the state-capitalist politics of the Chinese ‘’Communist’’ Party. A trade union leader does not answer to the workers, but to the capitalist boss/state manager of his/her place of work. It is his/her job to direct the orders from the top to the workers at the bottom. Because Chinese workers are not free to choose their own leaders, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions is rejected by the International Trade Union Confederation as as tool of the Chinese working class!
The workers in Shenzhen said NO to their official union ‘’representatives’’ and decided to set up a free trade union. This is not what the bosses of the Jasic Technology factory wish to see. So they asked for government help. It turns out that Jasic Technology has a close relationship with local ‘’communist’’ party leaders in the Pingshan district of Shenzhen. The regime reacted swiftly and arrested key strike leaders such as Shen Mengyu and Xiao Hu. This is why Revolutionary Socialist Media gives full attention to the brave strike. Because the world capitalist media ignores the struggle of Chinese workers completely. They rather focus on ‘’communist’’ leader Xi Jinping and how ‘’communist’’ China actually is. Workers at Jasic Technology know better. Like the millions who work for low wages, they know that their country is not socialist. A true socialist China would give political and economic to the working class. However the CCP regime is not Marxist, it is state-capitalist and works very hard to support local capitalists like those of the Jasic Technology factory in supressing workers’ rights!
Chinaworker.info reported that the owner of Jasic Technology is a CCP member and delegate at Shenzhen People’s Congress, the local chapter of the pseudo-parliament of China. The owner is not the only one who is both a CCP member and a delegate. Jasic’s personal manager is also part of the CCP bureaucracy, both are delegates in the Shenzhen People’s Congress. This exposes the close connection between the Chinese ‘’Communist’’ Party and local capitalists in China. 30 workers have been detained since the strike started in July. 17 remain arrested as of 23 August 2018. Those who have been released report of violence and torture by the security police. Again this is no surprise. The security police is a brutal tool of the state-capitalist regime and has no regard for the democratic rights of workers. Their agents are hard-core nationalists, drilled to be uncritical supporters of the government. This is why RSM has often compared the current People’s Republic of China to the old nationalist regime of Chiang-Kai-Shek. As the CCP turned to the right-wing, it became ideological close to the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party). It is ironic to see that the Chinese ‘’Communist’’ Party has become what it fought against, in the Chinese civil war of 1927-1949!
Revolutionary Socialist Media supports the demands of Chinaworker.info and calls for the release of Shen Mengyu and Xiao Hu. We demand free and independent trade unions for workers and a socialist China under management of its working class, not a corrupt state-capitalist single party system. Western governments will not be our allies. They are puppets of capitalists like the owners of Jasic Technology. Solidarity must come from workers themselves. Because western countries have huge economic interests in China. They know that their donors are exploiting millions of Chinese to enrich themselves. This is why the European Union and the United States will never do anything for the oppressed. Their interests are capitalist interests and do not serve the needs of ordinary people. The brave strike in Shenzhen proofs that class struggle is building. Xi Jinping cannot hide the fact that his regime is not as stable has he wants others to think. Chinese workers will fight and if united by a true Marxist leadership, they could overthrow the CCP and the rotten capitalist system it supports!
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