While the “leaders” of the International Trade Union Confederation (See the post below) are sipping tea in the Great Hall of the People with the Butchers of Beijing, the real Chinese labor movement is emerging on the ground. As Han Dong Fang, the leader of the independent Chinese Labour Bulletin based in Hong Kong, notes, there are protests by thousands of workers every day in coastal China’s industrial zone.
STEPHEN F. DIAMOND
A legal scholar and political scientist at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley.
