A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

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    8 hours ago

    If the CCP’s all about championing the humble worker then surely they’ll approve of this guy’s actions, right?

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      8 hours ago

      CCP shuts down alternative unions and prevents any left wing demonstrations, it’s ironic, you don’t have to fall into a party line when you’re not a party member yet they’re being hunted down as if they just broke the rules of centralised democracy

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      Surely they’d prefer workers to go through official channels so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages. They’re not anarchists lol

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        From the article:

        Police, however, said the claim that “800 yuan in wages were owed” was false, and that the company was in the process of approving payment of 5,370 yuan in wages. It blamed the factory fire on the arsonist’s suicidal thoughts, and said police would deal strictly with those spreading rumors.

        So the “official channels” would just tell him unpaid wages don’t exist

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          What about the ACFTU? Or one of the labour inspectorates? Going to police is the first step, but it’s hardly the only official channel.

          The education system clearly failed to prepare this worker for what they should do if their boss steals their wages, but there were definitely other options besides going all propaganda of the deed on the factory. I certainly sympathize with them though!

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        5 hours ago

        Official Channels

        So same as an US-American petitioning trump? 🤣

        so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages

        I guess you oppose burning teslas? Bootlick much?

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          So same as an US-American petitioning trump? 🤣

          What if I told you that the US and China are different countries and that they have different governments?

          I guess you oppose burning teslas? Bootlick much?

          I oppose adventurism.

          People should be organized and follow democratic centralism, parties and unions and organizations and such. They shouldn’t just go off on whatever adventure pops in their head because they’re mad at some rich guy for being a piece of shit.

          Again, that shit is for anarchists, and in case you haven’t noticed they haven’t been very historically successful.