Dr Jörg Nowak Interviewed by German public television channel ZDF

Dr Jörg Nowak

Interviewed by German public television channel ZDF, 2 August 2019

Call for an international climate strike

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/streikforscher-zu-fridays-for-future-oekologische-fragen-innerhalb-der-gewerkschaften-umstritten-100.html 

Streikforscher zu Klimademos-"Ökologische Fragen innerhalb der Gewerkschaften umstritten"

Datum:

02.08.2019 21:40 Uhr

Warum nicht einfach mal das ganze Land an einem Freitag 

lahmlegen? Streikforscher Jörg Nowak erklärt, warum Joko 

Winterscheidts Idee mit den Gewerkschaften schwer 

umzusetzen ist.

Jenny Chan interviewed by Daniel Denvir for The Dig (10 April 2019)

Jenny Chan interviewed by Daniel Denvir for The Dig (a podcast from Jacobin magazine), in “Chinese Class Conflict with Jenny Chan,” 10 April 2019 (total run time: 01:56:59).

In the US, China is often viewed at best as a nefarious and enigmatic rival and at worst as a civilizational enemy. But these stories of national rivalry that permeate both major parties and the mainstream media function as a mystification, shrouding the global supply chain that connects capitalist exploitation from East to West. When we cut through the noise, a rather different picture emerges: China is home to a massive portion of the world's working-class, a class that is struggling against the combined forces of state and global capital for dignified lives. And these struggles, contrary to conventional wisdom, are deeply connected, rather than opposed to, worker struggles in the West. Dan interviews sociologist Jenny Chan on China's class conflict and labor movement.

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Andreas Bieler awarded the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies fellowship (2019-2020)

Andreas Bieler has been awarded a one-year fellowship with the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, starting in August 2019.

Big congratulations!

Andreas Bieler

Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Social Sciences

Jenny Chan received the 2018 Best Teaching Award

Jenny Chan, assistant professor, received the 2018 Best Teaching Award, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Andreas Bieler and Adam D. Morton: Theorising the International

Andreas Bieler and Adam D. Morton - Free online resource on International Relations theory: 

Theorising the International

https://sites.google.com/site/irtheoryresource/ 

Scholars Demand the Shenzhen Government Release Jasic Workers Arrested for Attempting to Unionize (30 July 2018)

30 July 2018

Scholars Demand the Shenzhen Government Release Jasic Workers Arrested for Attempting to Unionize

Dear Scholars,

Prof. Pun Ngai of the University of Hong Kong, Prof. Jack Qiu of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prof. Jenny Chan of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University sincerely and urgently invite you to co-sign this open letter to support Jasic Shenzhen workers currently on strike to defend their right to unionize and those arrested for joining or observing workers' protest. 

At this moment, 30 workers from Shenzhen Jasic (Jiashi) Technology Co. and observers are detained after workers attempted to practice their legal right to organize a trade union. Workers were threatened, beaten and arrested but are still strong and eager to defend their rights. They desperately need support from progressive individuals and organizations elsewhere in the world to let the Chinese government know, the world is watching. For more details, please refer to SACOM's video.

Workers’ actions are remarkable in the sense that workers are standing up to defend not only their economic, but also their political rights. This marks the rising consciousness and awareness of the working class in modern China. Your support and concern are crucial to widen the space available for Chinese workers to mobilize and defend themselves in this strike.

For the link to the petition, please refer to:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdl82DkA67nWz4e5a6KyBUnVrCc9Do-k_9FCsOubiNHO0S5Vg/viewform  (English Version, effective as of 30 July 2018)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnnEzX6Si3RjswDPVMuA_D5exUgZCI82kKDbvp6qxgeSZ2gw/viewform?usp=sf_link (Chinese Version, effective as of 30 July 2018)

We would appreciate it if you could co-sign the letter and pass it on to other scholars in your network who would support workers in their strike. 

More information at: Michael Ma, Project Officer, Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) Website: www.sacom.hk Tel: (852) 2392 5464 Fax: (852) 2392 5463

Email: michaelma@sacom.hk Mailing Address: P.O.Box No. 79583, Mongkok Post Office, HONG KONG

New podcast about the book by A. Choudry and S.Vally

Podcast "Radical histories and social movements" on the recently published book by Aziz Choudry and S. Vally ("Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements History's Schools", Routledge 2018) is now available online in the Will Brehm's blog.