Manufacturing slowdown in China triggers more strikes

[Le Socialiste]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/chin-d03.shtml

Seems China's latest strike wave is growing larger instead of receding. The problem lies in the fact that employers, managers, and the ruling elite can't afford to respond to the workers' demands in a manner that is satisfactory. Seeing as the global financial situation is rapidly worsening - leading to less companies using Chinese manufacturing - China's own export-led economy will suffer. And while strikes are not uncommon in China, the detiorating state of the world's economies will make it increasingly difficult to diffuse future workers' struggles.

[the last donut of the night]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/chin-d03.shtml

Seems China's latest strike wave is growing larger instead of receding. The problem lies in the fact that employers, managers, and the ruling elite can't afford to respond to the workers' demands in a manner that is satisfactory. Seeing as the global financial situation is rapidly worsening - leading to less companies using Chinese manufacturing - China's own export-led economy will suffer. And while strikes are not uncommon in China, the detiorating state of the world's economies will make it increasingly difficult to diffuse future workers' struggles.

this brings up a good point. i think what's really different about this crisis, when compared to, say, the great depression, is that the bourgeoisie now can't afford to escape its own economic mistakes. there's no room for improving and it knows it very well -- this is why it's going to continue pushing austerity, cutbacks, war and other reactionary measures to see if it can superate it and make profits while they're doing it. the global elites are winning this battle -- for now. it's imperative the working class fights back. not for reform, not for social democracy, but for true democracy. the chinese workers are showing that even in the biggest world economy, growth and prosperity are lies; their struggle is an example that even these BRIC economies can't escape this capitalist fuck-up. it's time for fighting; solidarity to the homies over in china

[the last donut of the night]

im kinda excited

[Le Socialiste]

I believe we've only experienced the beginnings of what will wind up becoming a series of awakenings for the international working-class, culminating in an ever growing sense of militancy on the part of those previously unaffected by the financial crisis. People who might have otherwise been unwilling to voice their frustrations over the oppressiveness of the capitalist system are discovering that they can (and will). In this year alone we've witnessed the slightest of stirrings from a working-class previously gripped by defeatism, and while they may not immediately resort to offensive action and tactics (as opposed to a state of constant defensiveness), they will have to rediscover the strength of a class united.