We Resolve to Fight to the End
Jasic Workers Support Group 23 August 2018
People often ask, why has this issue had such a large impact?
It’s actually very simple:
Because there are dark forces who don’t want to fix problems,
But rather want to fix the people who raise the problems.
It’s because of this that this issue has evolved to the level it’s at now.
Beginning last year, Jasic workers reported problems to the higher authorities.
They went to the Labor Bureau, they went to the ACFTU, but no one gave them an answer.
In the end workers were picked on, singled out, and beaten by the factory’s guards.
But what did the police do?
They stood on the side of [Jasic CEO] Pan Lei and the other capitalists.
Thus we workers had nowhere else to go. Thus we are standing here.
They blocked us, surrounded us, followed us, planted spies in our midst,
censored information, kidnapped us,
used our relatives to try to divide and undermine us.
Recently they have put the word out
that in the next few days they want to violently clear us out
violently defeat all of us.
Will we be defeated by them?
No!
Professor Qian Liqun of Peking University once said,
Our universities are cultivating refined egoists.
As students, we cannot be so soft.
When we come across evil, when we come across dark forces,
We have to stand up and defend justice.
If we don’t act, who will?
It is precisely because we students have the simplest sense of social responsibility,
That we closely follow what Chairman Xi taught us: to button well our first button.
One particularly deep impression I have is of one time I spoke.
There were lots of people getting off work, And mothers with their children,
They all listened very intently to our speeches.
At the time there was a mother right across from me.
With one hand she held her child, with the other she held her phone, recording our speeches.
After our speech, with one hand hugging her child and one holding her phone,
she clapped resolutely for us.
I was very moved.
I really felt like our hearts were together.
We insist on winning justice for our workers,
We insist on speaking out for our workers,
Today we are standing here with dignity and our heads high,
Because we are the light and you are the dark,
And the purpose of light is to disperse darkness.
Sit in the midst of the people’s fire and shudder, you dark forces!
Our actions are no longer just for our friends not yet released from detention,
What we are defending is this expression of social morals,
What we want to demonstrate, is whether the dark forces of Pingshan can handle this.
In the face of these value-less souls and ugly faces, we must shout out:
Give us back our Mengyu!
Give us back our Support Group comrades!
Give us back our workers!
Jasic Workers:
Stand up!
Be your own masters!
Build a union!
Our cause is just. Just causes cannot be defeated by any enemy.