• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    Slave labor is illegal in China, and working conditions have continuously been improving year over year for decades. The upper-level comment applies directly to that type of thinking you’re doing here.

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        10 days ago

        No, this is closer to fantasy than reality, you need to turn off Fox News. Regarding the treatment of Uyghurs, read Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation, and there isn’t excessice state violence against workers organizing for better conditions. In fact, the state most often sides with the workers against capitalists.

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              18 hours ago

              I guess to be more specific are worker led unions that facilate collective bargening or activities like strikes legal in the majority of China yet? Or are they limited to the role of special interest political action group still.

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                18 hours ago

                As long as it isn’t undermining the socialist system, strikes to happen and are supported by the CPC, even. Unions cannot legally be independent from the ACFTU.

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                  16 hours ago

                  Do you have some major examples where a legal strike was allowed to happen? From what i can tell illegal strikes happen are often not fully procecuted (Heaven is high and the emperor is far away after all) but legal strikes from the sanctioned ACFTU do not seem common, im guessing because of the top down structure of the org, but i could be mistaken there.

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                    16 hours ago

                    Strikes are generally uncommon across the board these days because the system works well and is constantly improving. A great article on the modern class struggle in China between the proletariat and national bourgeoisie is This is a Great Struggle, and it elaborates on the role of the CPC in the class struggle (for workers, against capitalists).