A more valid criticism was that the Chinese government’s track record on human rights won’t win any medals. And to be sure, it must be recognized that some of those complaints were made by those with less than genuine motives. This was the topic of a recent discussion between twenty northern California labor leaders and a visiting high-level Chinese delegation from the Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions (GZFTU).
The delegation, which is affiliated with the state-controlled All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), surprised us a bit when they said this was the first visit of top Chinese labor officials with leaders of a AFL-CIO Central Labor Council. Facing new challenges to organize multi-nationals, our guests emphasized they wanted to rapidly end their isolation from American unions.
GZFTU's Chairman Chen Weiguang began by acknowledging that China‘s unions had to be reformed. “We need to protect the rights and interests of the workers and elect leaders who will stand up for workers,” said Weiguang. “Of course, the bosses within the enterprises want a union chair who will be obedient to the company but we believe the union belongs to the workers, not the bosses.” Chen speaks from his experience as a major planner of the successful unionization of Wal-Mart in China.
China's “Economic Miracle”
Currently the seventh largest world economy, the country of 1.3 billion is on track to become the third largest by 2015. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown at rates that are among the highest for any major country in the 20th century. (US Dept. of Agric., USDA 2004 report) There are many internal factors contributing to China's economic "miracle" such as a more-skilled workforce and unprecedented capital spending on roads, utilities, buildings, machinery and equipment.
Over time, infrastructure improvements result in big increases in labor productivity and mass production of quality products, something U.S. policy makers do not appreciate. Substantial foreign investment in new technology since the early 1990s has also helped spur productivity. Before the mid-1990s there were clear differences between state-owned "socialist" factories, which offered lifetime employment, housing, and medical care, and private sector factories, which provided little job security, low wages, and no fringe benefits.
Today, however, competition and persistent government efforts to privatize state-owned firms has led even these enterprises to offer less job security, fewer welfare benefits, and stricter labor conditions. (China Labour Rights Bulletin) As a result, wages of Chinese workers have remained very low. Experts estimate wages at around 12% of US workers, thus providing China an extremely favorable trade advantage. For example, the USDA reports that “furniture manufactured in China can enter the U.S. market at 25 to 35 percent of the cost of comparable furniture” made in the United States. This imbalance is representative of most Chinese exports. From these statistics, it should be clear that raising the wages and living conditions of Chinese workers is imperative. Solidarity is not just an abstract emotional impulse; it is an economic necessity that unites workers around the world.
Our goal should be to avoid divisive competition between ourselves by establishing uniform international labor standards.
A Conversation with Chinese Labor
Our meeting with the Chinese delegation proved to be a lively and frank exchange. I asked a question about the control of the Communist Party over the official trade unions. As reported by Paul Burton in the May 28, 2008, Labor, the San Mateo County Central Labor Council newspaper, Chen responded to the question by explaining the history of unions under the Communist Party.
“For a long time China was a 'command economy' and unions were subservient to it. There was no distinction between labor and capital because we were all part of the nation,” Chen said. “The Party worked hard for the development of the working class and to educate workers. Things have changed with the move to a market economy and differentiation in factories between bosses and workers.”
Chen said that over the past 30 years of economic reforms, workers have made great sacrifices and now that capital had become too powerful the Communist Party was rethinking the balance of capital and labor, enacting new labor laws as part of that change.
Apparently some progress is being made.
Burton summarized the meeting by observing that “with the enactment of recent pro-worker labor laws in China, the situation may be changing as workers exercise their rights under these new labor laws.
“The China Labor Bulletin (CLB, online at www.china-labour.org.hk/en/) reported that 'the number of labor dispute cases in Guangzhou for the first two months of 2008 equaled the total number of cases in 2001. More than 60 percent of all cases involved non-payment of salaries and over-time.'"
CLB director Han Dongfang wrote encouragingly that “by developing collective bargaining at the grassroots level, enterprise-level unions will be transformed into labor organizations that genuinely represent the rights and interests of workers.”
Let's wish them well. We all should work toward this common goal in each of our unions. But some would say it is not possible to achieve while the Chinese government retains exclusive control of the unions.
The role of Trade Unions in China
Founded in 1925, ACFTU has around 170 million members. It is the only union legally recognized but its membership is shrinking as privately-owned companies become a larger share of the economy. The numbers are staggering. In their Feb. 9, 2008, issue, ChinaDaily reports that 200 million were employed by 5.39 million registered private establishments in 2007. This is more than half of all companies in China. These firms alone generated 60 percent of the GDP.
ACFTU is responding to this challenge by mounting a huge organizing campaign in the private sector, especially among the foreign-owned. As a result, the Federation expects it membership to increase to 200 million by its September 2008 Congress. It also hopes to announce successful completion of a “100-day” bold unionization effort begun in June to organize 80% of the Fortune 500 firms.
This new thinking was forced upon Chinese unions after they encountered stiff opposition from notoriously anti union Wal-Mart. Labor officials, normally accustomed to dealing with state enterprises, were shocked when the company actually refused to even meet with union organizers, a tactic commonly employed in America.
ACFTU began a successful grass-roots organizing campaign, a first for the state labor body.
The union was finally recognized in 2006. Chen Weiguang played an important role confronting Wal-Mart as a hostile employer rather than as a friendly joint-venture partner with the government. The latter view has always compromised the union’s ability to represent workers.
For example, the ACFTU official website still clearly reveals its cooperation with management: "Trade unions of the foreign-invested enterprises in China have firmly centered on production and business operation to conduct activities and have given support to enterprises in their operation and management according to law; have educated workers to observe factory rules and regulations and discipline; organized workers to launch labor emulation campaigns; and aroused the enthusiasm of the workers for running the enterprises well, so as to contribute to the sound development of the enterprises."
Yet, soon after the Wal-Mart victory, the ACFTU website announced: “This successful experience in setting up Wal-Mart unions is groundbreaking in that we have discovered a new line of thinking. It not only will influence other foreign and private investors to quickly abide by the law to allow unions to be established, it also brings to trade unionists a new mission. Following the new logic in setting up unions, new adjustments in union work will be needed, be it in methods, in organizational structure, ways of identifying backbone activists, down to how to use union funds….”
We are obviously observing the wavering contradictions of a mass labor organization of millions trying to define for itself a new role and trying to discover for itself a new voice that speaks more sharply to the needs of Chinese workers.
The big question is whether the announced changes in union structure and purpose enacted from “above” will be sufficient to satisfy millions of Chinese workers “below” who so desperately need an organization representing their class interests. So far, the government is walking a delicate tight rope of enacting reform without relinquishing control.
Fresh off the success of their grand Olympic production, the state retains the stage with the home crowd anxiously awaits their next major performance of reforming the trade unions. Hundreds of millions of desperate workers still suffering under conditions most observers describe as horribly primitive have so far been relatively quiet.
Chinese officials hope they remain in their seats.
But a “thumbs down” review might end up with a rebellious audience itself taking over the stage.
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We think that China has a better comprehension of the importance of mutually beneficial cultural and trade exchanges with Africa than any other developed economy. We also believe that you in China understand the critical role of music in cultivating the growth of those connections because we saw you using music to such great effect in that opening ceremony extravaganza.
In this song, "Down in Africa", we name all the capital cities in Africa (50).
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On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States government dropped atomic bombs on two densely-populated Japanese cities, killing between 200,000 and 300,000 civilians. Commemorations of the atomic bombings often focus on the need to destroy nuclear weapons. But the anniversary raises another issue that is no less important, for the bombings had specifically targeted Japanese civilians. The military tactic of targeting civilian populations in times of war was nothing new, with deep historical roots extending back to Biblical times when armies would lay siege to entire cities. More recently, US military manuals of the 1920s and 1930s had promoted such tactics not just for the potential scale of destruction but also for the psychological effects on civilians. Air Corps doctrine, for example, praised air raids as "a method of imposing will by terrorizing the whole population," and before World War II advocated "attacks to intimidate civil populations" [2]. Secretary of War Henry Stimson later made a similar point, boasting that "the atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon" [3].
When World War II started, however, such strategies were frequently condemned in international circles. Although military technology had developed rapidly in recent decades, the previous century had also witnessed notable national and international agreements designed to limit the brutality of warfare. Building on a centuries-old moral and legal distinction between soldiers and civilians, the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions had banned the "bombardment, by whatever means" of urban residential areas [4]. The 1925 Geneva Protocol had added to wartime prohibitions, condemning the use of chemical and biological weapons. In 1939, then, widespread acceptance of the targeting of civilian populations such as occurred at Hiroshima and Nagasaki six years later was by no means a foregone conclusion. Yet those acts enjoyed enormous support, and not only within the upper echelons of government: 85 percent of the US public approved of the Hiroshima bombing in an August 8, 1945, poll [5].
How did the sort of logic that condoned the targeting of civilian populations prevail over the countervailing moral norms codified in international law in previous decades? As historians have pointed out, the development of the military tactic of "area bombing" early in the war was a crucial stepping stone to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Area bombing refers to the aerial use of explosive and/or incendiary bombs against entire geographic areas, usually cities, rather than against conventional military targets. The logic of area bombing expands the definition of "military" to include industries, residential areas, and even the working population of laborers involved in economic production. As a theoretical and moral development, then, area bombing was unique in that it implied no hesitancy about killing noncombatants, and often sought specifically to do so [6]. An examination of the process by which area bombing gained practical acceptance as military strategy during World War II can help shed light on several issues: the ways that Allied leaders justified the bombing of cities; the reasons why the US public usually accepted those justifications; the ways that area bombing help paved the way for the use of the atomic bombs in August 1945; and finally, the long-term legacy of launching air raids against civilian populations in the years 1940-45.
The Path to Area Bombing
The area bombing of cities during World War II in fact followed a number of historical precedents. Roman military leaders, for example, had followed a comparable logic in the destruction of Carthage in 146 B.C. Although traditionally executed from the ground prior to the invention of airplanes, full-scale attacks on entire cities were common in ancient times. Since the early 1900s European powers had also engaged in the deliberate bombing of cities. Germany, France, and Great Britain had all bombed cities in World War I, and both France and Britain had used aerial strikes in the 1920s and 1930s to punish "intransigent tribesmen" in colonized territories in Africa, India, and the Middle East (the US also did so in Nicaragua around the same time) [7].
Area bombing was unique, however, in that it sought indiscriminate annihilation of entire places. Hitler's 1940 air raid on Coventry, England, destroyed much of the city's infrastructure and was one of the first instances of "indiscriminate bombing" during the war [8]. Nazi attacks on London, Moscow, and various European countries throughout the war also fall under the category of area bombing. But even so, area bombing was largely an Allied practice, especially from 1942 onward. Whereas most German and Japanese aerial attacks involved "tactical," "strategic," and/or "terror-bombing" (which certainly inflicted large civilian casualties at times), British and US aerial bombing was more often directed toward wiping out entire urban areas. By the end of World War II the Allies had carried out more area bombing missions than had the Axis [9].
Although US officials had planned to firebomb Japan as early as 1940, US military practice early in the war, with some exceptions, did not generally involve area bombing of urban locations. Instead, military strategies went through several escalations in their level of brutality. The Doolittle raid on Japan in April 1942 was the first large-scale use of incendiary bombs against civilian populations. Between 1943 and early 1945 the number of Allied incendiary raids gradually increased, punctuated by the mid-1943 US-British attacks on Hamburg, Germany, and the March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo. After the US Army's Chemical Warfare Service successfully developed napalm in 1943, the Allied use of incendiaries increased [10]. During the war roughly 593,000 civilians died in bombing raids on German cities, and at least 780,000 civilians in Japan died as a result of incendiary raids alone [11]. The latter figure excludes civilian fatalities from both explosive raids and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which followed three months after the Tokyo raid.
On May 17, the Spartacist League and Spartacus Youth Club participated in a protest against “torture professor” John Yoo outside the commencement ceremony at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school. As deputy assistant attorney general, John Yoo, now a law professor at UC Berkeley, authored the notorious Justice Department memos that provided legal justification for the U.S. imperialists’ use of torture as part of the ruling class’ bipartisan “war on terror.” Yoo maintains that the bourgeoisie’s use of waterboarding is justified and that there are no legal restrictions against the president’s ordering the torture of detainees. Supported by both Democrats and Republicans, the “war on terror” has meant bloody imperialist slaughter abroad and racist repression in the U.S., and John Yoo was a key architect of it.
The protest against Yoo was called by Act Against Torture and the World Can’t Wait campaign (WCW) of the reformist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). We intervened into this demonstration to protest John Yoo from our revolutionary Marxist perspective, with the understanding that the only way to rid the world of torture, imperialist war and barbarism is through the overturn of the capitalist system through socialist revolution. The WCW and its creator, the RCP, attempted to censor our revolutionary internationalist opposition to American imperialism so that they could push their program of refurbishing the democratic credentials of U.S. imperialism.
The WCW’s call for the demonstration, “Fire & Dis-bar [sic] John Yoo! No Professors Condoning Torture at UC Berkeley,” was an appeal to the administration to clean up the campus, and they urged students to petition the dean to fire John Yoo. We are for students, teachers and campus workers driving this war criminal off campus. But to paint the administration as an ally against this war criminal is a whitewash of the administration, which is the representative of the capitalist rulers on campus. It is not the bourgeoisie’s war criminals, but leftist professors like Ward Churchill and Norman Finkelstein, student activists and campus workers whom the administration targets. Universities under capitalism are bourgeois institutions that train the next generation of technocrats, businessmen and bureaucrats to maintain the rule of the capitalist class. We remind our readers that “progressive” Berkeley was home to the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons development lab for decades.
As law students lined the walk to the Boalt Hall commencement reception, our comrades chanted, “John Yoo and the CIA: Torture made in the U.S.A.!” and “John Yoo, imperialist tool! Overthrow U.S. capitalist rule!” When we chanted, “Pressure politics—no solution! We need workers revolution!” and “Democrats, Republicans—parties of war! For a workers party to wage class war!”, RCPers started to panic and tried to drown us out by chanting, “Shame on who? John Yoo!” Law graduates filing by gave thumbs up for our next chant, “U.S. imperialists out of Iraq now! U.S. imperialists out of Afghanistan now! U.S. imperialists out of the Near East now!” This sent the reformists into a frenzy, arguing that the demonstration could only take up John Yoo and torture!
This pathetic attempt at political censorship showed the RCP’s appetite for unity with the liberals and the Democrats against the revolutionary communists. One RCPer asked us how we would like it if they had come to the rally we built for Mumia and chanted, “Long live Mao.” We would have welcomed the chance to debate Maoism or any other political question. In fact, that’s why the RCP declined the Partisan Defense Committee’s invitation to endorse, build for and speak at the April united-front rallies to free Mumia. They fear exposure of the contradiction between their cynical “revolutionary” rhetoric and their thoroughly reformist politics. (See “RCP Maoists ‘Serve the People’ …Up to the Democrats,” WV No. 901, 26 October 2007.)
Several RCPers at the demo argued that their WCW campaign, which pushes as its main slogan, “Drive out the Bush regime” (read: “vote Democrat”), was a way to create an opening for revolutionary politics. Really the opposite is true. Far from creating an opening for a revolutionary program, the RCP and its WCW project divert outrage against the depredations of U.S. imperialism back into the same old “lesser evil” Democratic Party pressure politics.
After a single gunshot was heard, the police blasted thousands of rounds of ammunition into the home. The cops’ fusillade was so intense that one of their officers, James Ramp, was killed in their own cross fire. Though cops claimed the original gunshot came from the MOVE house, witnesses, including a reporter for KYW radio, identified the gunfire as coming from a building behind the police lines. When the adults emerged from the gunfire, police publicly beat, dragged, kicked and stomped nearly to death a shirtless Delbert Africa. The outrage sparked by Delbert’s savage beating, captured by news cameras and televised in slow motion, ultimately led to a federal civil rights lawsuit and indictments against three of the cops. When chilling photos of the beating appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 400 cops picketed the newspaper. After the assault, the police completely bulldozed the house, destroying evidence of their own wrongdoing and proving that the MOVE members’ only “crime” was to survive.
The Philadelphia in which the MOVE organization emerged in 1972 was a racist hellhole lorded over by a force of killer cops led by Frank Rizzo, first as deputy police commissioner, then commissioner and later mayor. Any expression of black dissent was met with brutal police repression, centrally meted out by Philadelphia’s notorious “red squad”—the Civil Affairs unit—and the “Stakeout” squad, an urban death squad of police sharpshooters. For the cops, arbitrary stops, beatings and arrests of MOVE members were standard procedure. In 1973-74, some 40 MOVE members were arrested 150 times, fined approximately $15,000 and given sentences of up to several years in jail. In 1976, blackjack-wielding cops descended on a MOVE celebration, and in the resulting melee Janine Africa’s newborn infant was trampled to death.
In 1978, then-District Attorney Edward Rendell declared that the police would have been “within their rights to have, subsequent to the shooting of Officer Ramp, stormed the house and killed all of the 12 people in the basement.” In August 1981, nine MOVE members including Delbert Africa were sentenced to prison terms of 30 to 100 years on false charges stemming from the death of Ramp. At the time, standing alone among journalists in defense of MOVE was Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is today America’s foremost class-war prisoner (see article, page 12). By the time of the 1978 assault, Mumia had already interviewed victims of police brutality and was acquiring a reputation as the “voice of the voiceless.” In December 1981, only months after the MOVE 9 conviction, Mumia himself was arrested on false charges of killing Officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death explicitly for his political views. The D.A. Rendell, who prosecuted the MOVE 9 and Mumia Abu-Jamal, is Pennsylvania’s current governor and a leading player in the national Democratic Party. He is one of a number of leading figures in the Pennsylvania state government for whom the vendetta against MOVE and Mumia has played a key role in building their careers. Free Mumia now!
On 13 May 1985, the MOVE prisoners watched in horror from their Pennsylvania cells as the Philadelphia police under black Democratic mayor Wilson Goode, in league with federal authorities, came to finish the job they had started in 1978, dropping a high-powered explosive bomb on MOVE’s Osage Avenue home. Eleven people, including five children, were burnt to death and an entire black neighborhood was left in smoldering ruins. This coordinated act of racist state murder must never be forgotten.
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Mia Farrow, the actress and activist, has asked Blackwater, the US private security company active in Iraq, for help in Darfur after becoming frustrated by the stalled deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force.
Ms Farrow said she had approached Erik Prince, founder and owner of Blackwater, to discuss whether a military role was either feasible or desirable.
She acknowledged that many people might have reservations about Blackwater being involved in Darfur - the company's men were involved in the fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians last September - but said the threat of violence to refugees meant all options had to be explored.
"The people in the camps would say 'we don't care whether it's Blackwater, any-water, as long as they help us'," she told the Financial Times.
Mr Prince hasraised the possibility of a role in Darfur for security companies.
Ms Farrow, who represents Dream for Darfur, a human rights group, and other lobbyists this week lambasted the UN Security Council for its "shameful" failure to halt killings in the Sudanese province.
The criticism came on the eve of a report yesterday by diplomats of the 15-member council who visited Sudan this month, with some envoys acknowledging the structure of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid) force was flawed and that the Sudanese government was not interested in seeing an effective international force on the ground.
The activists, who claim China has used the threat of its Security Council veto to prevent tough sanctions on its ally, urged the UN to stand up to Khartoum in the deployment of a 26,000- strong force. They said the Sudanese government had abused its right to approve contingents in an effort to ensure only relatively poorly trained and equipped African troops were assigned.
"How long will you continue to allow the government of Sudan to manipulate this body?" Ms Farrow asked council members. "Did Adolf Hitler get to choose which troops should be deployed to end his genocide?"
Sudan and its militia allies are blamed for most of the violence in a conflict with rebels in Darfur, the western province where the UN estimates up to 300,000 have died in the past five years. Sudan disputes that figure.
Richard Williamson, US special envoy to Sudan, said that since Unamid took over from a small African Union force in January only 585 more UN peacekeepers had been deployed and that the remaining two thirds of the planned force had been delayed by the Sudanese government and by a lack of equipment. "If we continue to do what we've done, the genocide in slow motion will continue," he said.
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-love animals
- are you able to commit to helping them
- have 10-15 minutes for about 2-3 times a week to spare
you have the power to help animals in suffering.
HOW ?
Create a myspace and facebook account, or better still create your own blog / website? E.g. see my website/ blog : http://www.Heart4Animals.com
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Education is the key to reducing animal suffering. I became more aware and concerned about animal issues after knowing what is happening from animal-related websites.
I started updating this website with animal-related news because I got to see images of what happens to animals hidden away from our sheltered city lives.
The more people know what animals go through, the more people will refrain from buying products which will further increase animal suffering e.g. fur / fur-lined outercoats.
PART 2
OTHER LANGUAGE BLOGGERS
Do you or if you know of anyone who know Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, or any other language ? These are enormous markets that not exposed to the cruelty involved in the animal trade, and also, the animal organizations have not been able to penetrate into these markets deep enough.( See http://www.heart4animals.com/2008/04/29/uncategorized/animal-suffering-continues-in-korea.htm Try to enlist people who know such language to start blogs / facebook / myspace / zorpia accounts to spread the message around.
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DISCOURAGE OTHERS FROM BUYING FUR
Do you or do you know of anyone who wears sweaters with fur-lined hoods as shown in the picture below ? Please tell your friends / relatives about the horrible cruelty involved at http://www.heart4animals.com/2008/04/18/uncategorized/against-fur-farms-in-china-we-need-500-signatures.htm to raise their awareness, and urge them not to buy fur-lined sweaters as it is very likely skinned off a dog, cat or fox while it's alive in a fur farm.
The Show:
Home is Where the Heart Is
jpegs due 1-3-09
How do you document home? Is home a place, a building, a dwelling, a city, or a feeling? Is it real or intangible? Is it your home or someone else’s’? Will you choose to share your bizarre Holiday family rituals, those cherished, informal moments, the vacant lot where your home once stood, observations on a strangers’ home life, commentary on the housing market, or a documentary of the homeless? Is home a shelter, or a door to walk through, a place to rest your head or raise your children?
Show us a glimpse of what HOME means to you. It is, after all, the culture and history of you.
Artists to inspire you” William Eggleston, Sally Mann, Gregory Crewdson, and Tina Barney
Working with Artists and The Denver Rescue Mission are partnering to create a powerful photographic exhibition of HOME as seen by artists from all over the country, all over the world. All images juried into the exhibit will be printed by Master Printer and Award Winning Piezographer, Ron Landucci, owner of Infinite Editions at no cost to the artist. All work exhibited will be unframed and unmated and will be hung using T-pins and will have an overall dimension of 11 inches on the shortest side for consistency.
Hosted by the Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, California
Jurors: Michael Collopy, Charles Cramer & Janet Jones
First Prize: $2,000 (Over $3,500 in total prizes) (prizes in US dollars)
Entry deadline: January 31st, 2009 (received by)
Exhibition: April / May 2009
Eligibility: Open to all photographers internationally using any photographic style
About this year's theme
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