China Worker Net

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China Worker Net
Type of site
Left-wing website[1]
FoundedMay 1, 2005
DissolvedFebruary 22, 2006[2]
URLwww.zggr.org

The China Worker Net,[3] or Chinese Workers Website,[4] was a Chinese left-wing[5] website dedicated to the Chinese working class.[6] It was founded in Beijing[7] on May 1, 2005[8] by a group calling themselves "socialists".[9] The editor-in-chief of the site was Yan Yuanzhang.[10]

China Worker Net (www.zggr.org) claimed to truly represent the workers, peasants, soldiers, and communist ideology.[10] The website made sharp criticisms of laborer and peasant policies.[11]

Shut down[edit]

On February 22, 2006, the China Worker Net was ordered to be shut down by the Chinese government.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "China Human Rights Report 2006" (PDF). Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. 2006-12-29.
  2. ^ Guobin Yang (26 June 2009). The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. Columbia University Press. pp. 362–. ISBN 978-0-231-51314-2.
  3. ^ United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (2006). Annual Report. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 183–.
  4. ^ Mobo Gao (20 February 2008). The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Pluto Press. pp. 138–. ISBN 978-0-7453-2781-5.
  5. ^ "Three Chinese left-wing websites were closed down". BBC News. 2006-03-22.
  6. ^ "About China Worker Net". www.zggr.org. 2005-05-01. Archived from the original on 2007-11-10.
  7. ^ "The voice of 10 million yuan and the fate of the Worker's Website". Marxist.com. 31 March 2006.
  8. ^ Oiwan Lam (28 June 2010). "China: Labour research website shut down for supporting Honda labour strike". Globalvoices.org.
  9. ^ "China Human Rights Briefing February 20 – 26, 2006". Chinese Human Rights Defenders. February 26, 2006.
  10. ^ a b "Three civil leftist websites closed before the Two Sessions". Voice of America. 2006-02-26.
  11. ^ Robert Marquand (February 24, 2006). "China's media censorship rattling world image". The Christian Science Monitor.
  12. ^ "Stephen Philion Interviews with Yan Yuanzhang, Editor-in-Chief of "China Worker Net"". Marxist.com. 6 April 2006.