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“ With the influx of Chinese automakers comes concerns that they don't respect Brazilian laws or unions. In China, there are no independent trade unions, they are all under the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, which is led by the ruling Communist Party of China. Independent trade unions in China are banned by the state and often face severe repression. ​“‘The majority of Chinese companies have not had contact with the Brazilian trade union movement,’”says Torres. “​In December of 2024, while plant expansion was underway, the Brazilian Ministry of Labor and Employment conducted a surprise inspection of the facility housing 163 Chinese workers who had been shipped to work at BYD. They found that workers lived in slave-like conditions on BYD’s factory grounds.” “The Brazilian Ministry of Labor and Employment charged BYD with 'slavery' and human trafficking, and concluded that living conditions were ‘a manifest affront to the principles of the dignity of human beings.’ “A...

Note: This post has been put behind a wall with a warning by Blogger. It is excerpts from a legally-published book. Words such pornonationalism, sex, sexual, pornography are used in context. There not a single pronographic image or video. The post is will be reviewed by Blogger. ___________ By Richard Seymour Wherever disaster nationalism erupts, it produces a pornography of sexual evil: ‘porno-nationalism’, as Dibyesh Anand calls it. It fantasises about women who are ‘disgusting vile parasites’ (among the milder specimens of incel misogyny), duplicitous Muslims luring Hindu girls into their religion (the Hindu nationalist fear of ‘love jihad’), and elite child sex trafficking ‘across continents, through the Vatican, and underneath the cover of charities and child protective services’ (as a QAnon bestseller put it). The nation, being reproduced through sex, always recruits sexuality. In its rise during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, nationalism helped establish what Christoph...

The limits of right Gramscianism

“ Ms. Manthay and the other uninvited settlers are part of the Landless Workers Movement, perhaps the world’s largest Marxist-inspired movement operating within a democracy and, after 40 years of sometimes bloody land occupations, a major political, social and cultural force in Brazil. The movement, led by activists who call themselves militants, organizes hundreds of thousands of Brazil’s poor to take unused land from the rich, settle it and farm it, often as large collectives. They are reversing, they say, the deep inequality fed by Brazil’s historically uneven distribution of land. While leftists embrace the cause — the movement’s red hats depicting a couple holding a machete aloft have become commonplace at hipster bars — many Brazilians view it as communist and criminal. That has created a dilemma for the new leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a longtime movement supporter who is now trying to build bridges in Congress and the powerful agriculture industry. Across L...

"We do not want communists in Brazil" Anticommunism without communism

"Capitalism is killing us" Translated to Arabic as "The capitalist terrorism ... How modern life is killing us without blood"  الإرهاب الرأسمالي ... هكذا تقتلنا الحياة الحديثة دون دماء