An ongoing strike by China Airlines pilots continues into its third day since it was declared on Friday morning. It still remains unclear how the strike will resolve...
Labor issues continue to be contested in China Airlines, with the declaration of a strike over the Lunar New Year’s holiday by the Taoyuan Pilot’s Union at 6 AM this morning. Over 900 pilots are striking...
Demonstrations by Chinese leftist student activists regarding the Jasic struggle in Shenzhen continue, with the detention of over ten student members of a Marxist Society at Peking University late last month. Another wave of detentions took place earlier this month, with forced confessions extracted by the Chinese government from some of the detained...
Migrant workers in Taiwan continue to push for improved conditions, as observed in demonstrations by migrant workers in late October calling for the separation of migrant worker dormitories and the factories they work in. Demonstrations took place on October 28th outside of the Ministry of Labor...
The proposed banning of a Marxist book club at Peking University, one of China’s most prestigious and elite universities, is ironic. Namely, as part of its drive towards centralizing authority and advancing its version of Chinese nationalism, the current Chinese government under Xi Jinping purports to return to Marxist fundamentals rather than destabilizing western influences...
The Shenzhen Jasic struggle continues, with the arrest of over 50 student activists in late August. However, is the struggle primarily symbolic, or does it have the potential to spread?...
Protests have broken out in Shenzhen among workers for the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Corporation. Jasic workers sought to form a labor union, in accordance with rights they claim according to Chinese law, but were denied union representation by the company and by official, state-run labor unions...
A rare multi-province strike has broken out in China among truck drivers. Quite unusually, this comes on the heels of a previous multi-province strike among crane operators which broke out in May...
Two demonstrations regarding education took place over last weekend. The first took place on Saturday afternoon outside the Executive Yuan and concerned itself with anticipated tuition hikes slated to be announced by Executive Yuan later this month. The second demonstration took place on Sunday morning outside the Ministry of Education, as an emergency mobilization against the sudden suspension of operations of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Creativity...