Revisiting Tiananmen: Democracy, Workers, and Reform

This chapter reflects on the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, exploring the complexities of the protests beyond the pro-democracy narrative. It analyzes the interactions between students and workers during the protests, emphasizing issues of autonomy, state repression, and the struggle for rights. By contextualizing these events within the broader socio-political landscape of China, the chapter draws parallels to historical and global movements for worker democracy and empowerment.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 1
Tiananmen Remastered, Part 2
Governing Fertility: How Pronatalist Policies Kill
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #19

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Sources/Links:

The FDA Wants to Take Away Your Covid Vaccine, ft. Dr. Kaveh Hoda

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-covid-vaccines-can-stay-fall-access-concerns-rcna208492

Tiananmen Remastered

https://lausancollective.com/2021/communists-crushed-international-workers-movement/

https://chuangcn.org/journal/two/red-dust/sinosphere/

http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Walder.html

https://chuangcn.org/2019/06/tiananmen-square-the-march-into-the-institutions/

https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1970/workers-control/

https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4