This week, school officials harassed young Marxists at a half-dozen universities and prevented some from meeting, activists said. “They’re more willing to go out on the street and stick their necks out,” he said. China allows labor organizing only under the auspices of the official, party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions. The workers said managers had seized control of their branch of the official union. Complaining of being underpaid and treated like slaves, they began to organize a petition before the police intervened and detained several of them.

Source: New York Times September 28, 2018 23:50 UTC