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Hunger strike by young detainees \u2022 Solidarity protests needed<\/strong><\/div>\n

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chinaworker.info reporters<\/p>\n

In the final week of August the CCP (‘Communist’ Party) dictatorship launched a nationally coordinated crackdown against left youth activists and workers fighting for trade union rights in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dozens have been arrested since police smashed down the door to the Huizhou apartment housing the Jasic Technology Workers\u2019 Support Group, comprising dismissed workers and young left-wing activists, early on 24 August. Some of the youth activists who are still being held by Guangdong police have reportedly started a hunger strike.<\/p>\n

chinaworker.info declares our wholehearted solidarity with these youngsters and the workers at Jasic Technology, the Shenzhen company that is becoming known in the worldwide labour movement as a despicable anti-union sweatshop.<\/p>\n

The current crackdown is no local matter, but a concerted police sweep with arrests being made in Beijing and other areas. Three Maoist linked websites \u2013 ‘Epoch Pioneer’, ‘Red Reference’ and ‘Mao Zedong Flag’ \u2013 have also been raided and temporarily shut down, with a combined eight arrests being made among the staff of these popular sites. The government\u2019s motive for this is to silence expressions of sympathy with the struggle in Shenzhen and deny any outlet for the outrage that is likely to grow as news of the police repression spreads.<\/p>\n

The Jasic Technology struggle to establish an independent trade union at the company’s Shenzhen factory\u00a0 is historic and can have big effects on China\u2019s political situation in the future. It signals that the struggle for real unions \u2013 outlawed under China’s dictatorship \u2013 is now on the agenda. This is the only way for Chinese workers to organise and defend their interests, incomes and jobs, against a crisis-hit capitalism that more than ever relies on the iron fist of state repression to protect its profits and power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Members of the Jasic Workers’ Support Group in Guangdong province.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Political radicalisation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The struggle also signals a deepening of political radicalisation among Chinese workers and youth, which has been a growing trend in the past two years. Many of the idealistic and heroic young activists who went to Guangdong to support the workers\u2019 struggle have been shocked at the ferocity of the state\u2019s reaction.\u00a0The 24 August crackdown has dealt a big blow to the mistaken belief of a section of the young activists\u00a0that the central government in Beijing would intercede on their behalf, and that the order to crack down originated only at local level.<\/p>\n

The brutality of the CCP regime\u2019s measures and the singling out of several left\u00a0websites\u00a0and groups shows it is a nationally decided policy. It wants to \u2018nip in the bud\u2019 the fusion of rising worker militancy and radical anti-capitalist politics that have been a feature of this struggle. This will not succeed. The youth and workers will pick themselves up and regroup for future struggles.\u00a0The young activists who have not been arrested, and even some who have been “released” but are still under police surveillance,\u00a0are still trying with considerable bravery to expose the brutal crackdown and refute the smears levelled at them by the state-controlled media that they are agents or dupes of “foreign forces”.<\/p>\n

Continuing relentless solidarity campaigns are needed to support those that may face severe punishments at frame-up trials. chinaworker.info demands the immediate release and dropping of all charges against members of the Jasic Workers’ Support Group, and the arrested staffers of left-wing websites. We call for lifting of the closure orders on these websites and an end to political censorship. Trade unionists internationally are urged to express solidarity with Jasic Technology workers’ struggle and exert pressure on Chinese companies and authorities for the re-instatement of the unfairly dismissed workers. Support the struggle for independent and democratic trade unions in China.<\/p>\n

Above all, the new generation of left activists must draw all the necessary conclusions from this important struggle: that organisation and a revolutionary socialist policy are needed to bring about a complete change of the system in China and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) is a socialist organisation with members in 40-plus countries, including chinaworker.info in China. In support of the Jasic Technology workers’ struggle, CWI members have initiated solidarity activities in more than 20 countries. Please send photos and reports to cwi.china@gmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Protest in support of Jasic workers in China outside the Worsley, Manchester, branch of Jasic in England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Protest at Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Germany, on 28 August.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Protest in Pittsburg, USA, against repression of workers and youth of the Jasic struggle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Solidarity protest with Jasic Technology workers in Bangalore, India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Solidarity protest in Gothenburg, Sweden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Solidarity from members of Workers and Socialist Party (CWI) in Pretoria, South Africa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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