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  • China

    Gongyou: The New Dangerous Class in China?

    20 October 2018, by Yu Chunsen

    After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial workers’ (xin chanye gongren), ‘semi-proletariat’, ‘full proletariat’, ‘precarious proletariat’ (buwending wuchanzhe), and even ‘Chinese new workers’ (zhongguo xin gongren) (Lee 2007; Lü 2012 and 2014; Pun and Chan 2008; Pun and Lu 2010; Smith and Pun 2017; Standing 2016; Swider 2015; Woronov 2016; Xie 2005; Yang 2010).

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  • Fourth International

    September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International

    19 October 2018, by Arthur Nicola, Laurent Ripart, Léon Crémieux, Michael Löwy, Penelope Duggan

    This ensemble of articles was originally published as a centre-spread in l’Anticapitaliste weekly newspaper of the NPA in France.

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  • Palestine/Israel

    The implications of the Balfour declaration

    20 September 2018, by Gilbert Achcar , Julien Salingue

    Below we publish two articles written almost a year ago to mark the centenary of the Balfour declaration, a key moment in the history of the Middle East. The issues raised in the two pieces, respectively by Gilbert Achcar and Julian Salingue, are as least as pertinent today as they were when they were written.

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  • Israel

    Local Government, Local Governance, Local Democracy

    18 September 2018, by B. Skanthakumar

    The shock result of the February 2018 local government election, on a high turnout exceeding 75%, has triggered governmental instability and continuing turmoil within the ‘good governance’ touting coalition that rode to power in the presidential election of January 2015, and stabilised itself after the August 2015 parliamentary election.

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