I found this odd

Started by abnormaltoy, January 06, 2008, 01:52:34 PM

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January 06, 2008, 01:52:34 PM
Chinese Employers Accused of Hiring Hoodlums to Attack, Cow Labor Organizers

SHENZHEN, China (AP) -- Huang Qingnan lifts his hospital sheets and shows a long scar below his left hip. His right thigh needed stitches and surgeons fought to mend muscle and tendon gashed in his calf.

The 34-year-old labor activist was stabbed repeatedly by knife-wielding thugs, one in a series of attacks that experts and workers' rights advocates fear may signal a worrying new trend -- privatized intimidation.

Once it would have been the communist government going after activists such as Huang. Today, he's less worried about the government and more about gangsters he believes are being hired by China's rough new capitalists to cow troublesome workers.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080106/china_attacks_on_activists.html

Worker rights movements are a cornerstone of socialism, China's choosen form of government, and yet they are going against their own. Odd.
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