The Activist Organising China's Biggest Labour Strikes
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The Labours of Mr Zhang: The Party is over for China's working class. In the boom-and-bust economy, it was the poor who lost out. Now unemployed and angry, millions of once-loyal Communist supporters are taking on Beijing. In 21st century China, the assurance of a job with cradle to grave care at a state-owned enterprise is a distant memory. Ghost cities built on debt lie empty. Unemployment is rife - and so is dissent. Mr Yao was a coal miner for 33 years, but was made redundant. Abandoned to the vagaries of the capitalist labour market, “the bosses exploit us", he complains. "It’s like the slave system...Why is the government so corrupt?” A former shoe factory worker and self-taught lawyer, Zhang Ziru, has helped organise some of China’s biggest strikes. It's a dangerous job; under constant police surveillance, Ziru has lost count of how many times he has been arrested. Yet with nearly 3000 strikes across China in 2015 and more job losses and wage cuts likely among the struggling working class, Ziru is committed to his cause. “Even if I’m falsely accused of disrupting social order, it’s just a matter of a three to five year jail sentence. I can accept that.” For similar stories, see: Exposing The Changing Face Of Superpower China https://youtu.be/JswfjZ7KZ-0 What Limits On Freedom Remain In China? https://youtu.be/XUisxlofUxk America's Greatest Weapon Against China https://youtu.be/TWSoExGnY1g Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6859/the-labours-of-mr-zhang Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures ABC Australia – Ref. 6859 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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all poor need to rise up and take everything from the rich, they are .0000001% we make up the rest.
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What you done is correct. Don't let government and politicians kill you. They eat plenty of food but you people nothing.
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its always been the same-chinese people are good but the government are not so good are they
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these houses are very much expensive regarding the salary of locals. the locals in coastal region get rich because the economic development made their land expensive which made all Chinese houses expensive but most non-coastal regions with weaker economy cannot afford that kind of fancy house prices driven high and high by greedy local government landlords and state banks.
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Get rid with those FUCKING Communist party. China deserveds to be a republic not on communist's party's CORRUPTION.
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This exactly what India is doing now I am sure we will end up like this
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I smell a dynasty change
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This is purely a biased anti Chinese propaganda video.
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chinese government is just so inhumane and lack compassion to its people... ordinary chinese people do not deserve this, they are the ones making the chinese economy rich.
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看到这些底层的真是生活,他们的确不容易的。不过一想到他们竟然怀恋毛泽东的时代,想想也是气,哀其不幸怒其不争,人穷思维也穷,可怜可恨。
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I don't think they care, they are at their breaking point so being on camera is probably the least of their worries. I just wanted to say another great doc , I wish it was longer, but oh well. Amazing gentleman there Mr Zhang and journeyman please do a follow up at some point!!
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just as here, the government volunteers no information.
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i feel bad for the working class and street vendors, young people many cannot afford health insurance,if they loose their job their is no social safety net, if your sick and cannot pay your out, most cannot afford to buy an apt, prices are higher than USA even fruits and meats. Life is hard for the common chinese person :/
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Same thing is happening now in Cambodia
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Come on.
the grass root.
there is no job for you?
My dad come from village with nothing yet he survive in the city.
we understand that you have to work hard and that will not be easy.
Improve yourself if you want to get a better job.
Some of them say when Mao in power there will be no such thing will happen.
I will say you want to be like the western world.
Welcome to capitalism. -
Shenyang....
Yep, that's my hometown.
No, that's my HOMETOWN! -
The thieves running China spend 400,000 USD per month on promoting a 2 minutes propagandize clips on the time square billboard @ NYC...yet they've million of starving Chinese in China that need help..gotta love those thieves
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The thieves running China some how create a new lie of many lies they created that is is foreigners fault ...and some how South East Asian Sea is involved...
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You should worry. Currently my wife receives hundreds of supporters instantly on any blog she initiates. When not outside of China she had mire than 2,000,000 followers. I told her today, "be careful. You are being watched!
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说实话有些你们拍的太假了。以前微博就揭穿过你们的拍摄手法。虽然题材中国人一看就很对,可其实内部包含的东西,太坏!
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