The strike at Southern Weekly (Chinese newspaper)...

[Os Cangaceiros]

I was watching a report about this issue on the news and I'd be interested to know what people think about it.

Basically some journalists in China went on strike over a piece that censors wanted to include in their publication. I guess a deal has been reached:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/09/journalists-at-censored-chinese-paper-strike-deal/

[Lenina Rosenweg]

For what its worth


In a separate but related development, the Guangdong-based liberal newspaper Southern Weekly had its editorial axed and rewritten by provincial propaganda boss Tuo Zhen, because the original piece called for the realisation of the “dream of constitutionalism in China”. A group of Southern Weekly journalists have protested at this censorship in the one province where the media is seen to be less of a mouthpiece for the dictatorship.

At the time of writing, some journalists are reported to have taken strike action after the newspaper’s management took control of microblog accounts and published statements supporting the government’s version of events. This is the first strike by media employees since 1989 and deserves the full support of all who are fighting for democratic rights, as an excellent example of how this struggle must be conducted. The journalists’ action has generated an outpouring of solidarity on the internet from across the country. The current protests in solidarity with the Southern Weekly staff are already raising democratic demands that go beyond the limited prescriptions of the liberal reformers and petitioners.

http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/6111