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The Way Out for China (Part XII) Workers Movement - by Wei Jingsheng
标题： 《中国的出路》之十二
（中国工人运动）-- 魏京生
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The
Way Out for China (Part XII) - Workers' Movement
--
by Wei Jingsheng
Around
the June 4 anniversary this year, I visited several Western European
countries. I noticed that both the
Chinese and non-Chinese there have not reduced their interest in democracy in China. It really was not as bad as some people
have predicted. Many friends said
that it is partially because the ongoing situation in China has lit the fire of
hope again. Indeed, the
development inside China could be far from the expectations of many. The recent rising of the tide of
workers' movements in China is one of the examples that people have been
waiting for years, yet were gradually losing their confidence in.
Under
the suppression of the powerful dictatorial machine of the Chinese Communist
Party, for decades now the workers movement in China could not be
developed. There are several
reasons. The first is due to the
existence of official "labor unions" under the Communist Party. These organizations act as scabs for
the Communist government. The
officials of these so-called "labor unions" are paid by the
government and have become the main force in charge of monitoring and
destroying the true labor movement.
When there is conflict between labor and the capital management, these
so-called "labor unions" habitually will speak in favor of the
government and the capital side.
They barely stand on the side of the workers. During the recent workers' movements, there are some
so-called "labor-union" officials who opposed the workers, and even physically
had fights with the Honda workers.
These examples are a true reflection of the nature of the
"official" side.
The
second reason that labor organization became difficult is that after the
Chinese Communist Party took over power it exposed its true nature of opposing
the people. For decades now, the
Communist government has treated the workers' struggle for their rights as a
political crime and has given severe suppression. In the past sixty some years, there have been numerous
spontaneous workers' organizations that were suppressed with the criminal
charges of being "anti-revolutionary". Their leaders were either sent to jail or were persecuted in
other ways. The workers'
organizations without leadership were soon dissolved.
There
are many other reasons as well, but the above two are the most important. The Communist dictatorial rule and the
wreck by these scabs has had the result that the Chinese workers could not be
organized to defend their own rights.
This is exactly the main reason why the capitalists from Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and the other nations could find cheap labor in China.
Because
these laborers who produce good products, the foreign invested businesses could
receive excessive surplus value.
To keep this excessive profit, all the capitalists in the world united
together in an effort to defend the existence of the dictatorial system of the
Chinese Communist Party. This
system is an unbreakable food chain: big fish feeding on small fish; small fish
feeding on shrimps.
For
more than 20 years now, accompanied by the workers' movements, the Chinese
democratic movements have been rising one after another and striven
incessantly. However, they are
suppressed by the united power of the Chinese Communist Party and its Western
allies. Both labor and democracy
movements are hard to stimulate and persist, and thus are teased by the others
as "could not work". The
root cause of ineffectiveness is the existence of this international alliance.
This
alliance has forced the majority of Western politicians to surrender themselves
to the will of the Communist Party, to protect the interests of big
business. Even the labor
organizations in the West are infiltrated by big business and are not concerned
with workers movements in China.
This lack of support is another main reason why the Chinese labor
movement has been in a depressed status for a long time.
However,
Chinese workers who are suppressed too hard will naturally have a breaking
point, to develop workers movements in seeking their own rights and
interests. Recently, the workers
movement starting in the FoxConn factories in GuangDong spread rapidly all over
China, proving that the Chinese workers need their own unions, and urgently
need to be organized to defend their own rights and interests. The emergence of leaders for the
younger generation of workers has brought a chance for the Chinese
society. The wave of workers'
movements, with its main desire of seeking pay raises now, will not only form
rights-defending organizations but also mitigate the ongoing economic crisis
happening inside China. Both of
these aspects are the hope for the Chinese society now.
Many
people have noticed the rapid inflation in China, without paying attention to
the relationship between this inflation and the deformed industrial structure
in China. Simply, the cost of
labor is only a tiny portion of the total output value, while most of the
produced value has become the profit of Chinese and foreign capitalists. The majority of this profit went to
investment in expanding production capacity, the financial sector, and the real
estate market. With the global
economy in recession, much of these funds were exchanged into foreign currency
and fled abroad. The natural
result is the oversupply of currency in China. This is the root cause of the inflation.
To
solve this problem there are only two methods, without a third.
The
first is to raise the exchange rate of the Chinese currency, RenMinBi, and to
abolish all sorts of non-tariff import barriers, in an effort to allow foreign
products flow into the Chinese market while the currency flow out, in an effort
to resume the balance of the Chinese market and to absorb the oversupplied
active money. This method must be
accompanied by the second method, which is to raise the real income of the wage
and salary earners, so as to rapidly expand the consumer market inside China in
an effort to avoid the domino effect of a shrinking manufacturing.
When
we try to apply these two methods, it will naturally reduce the excessive
profit of both Chinese and foreign businesses. However, only when the average profit has been reduced to a
reasonable level, the Chinese economy could be stabilized. Otherwise, the big rise and fall of
these years will naturally amplify and ultimately cause the collapse of the
economy.
Why
has the Chinese Communist ruling clique taken all sorts of measures, except
these two simple and effective ones?
The key is due to the excessive profit. These profits have not only fattened these corrupted Chinese
officials, but also corrupted Western politics. This profit is the lifeblood for the very survival of the
Communist rule. If this wave of
workers' movements cannot force the Communist Party to resume a normal economic
structure, then only when the Chinese society has collapsed will we have an
opportunity to put it back in order.
I
am afraid that this is the last opportunity before the collapse in China.
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To
hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's commentary, please visit:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS100611ChinaWayOut12workersunions.mp3
(Written
and recorded on June 11, 2010.
Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia.)
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A551-W322
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A551-W322
Release
Date: June 12, 2010
发布日：2010年6月12日
Topic:
The Way Out for China (Part XII) Workers Movement - by Wei Jingsheng
标题： 《中国的出路》之十二
（中国工人运动）-- 魏京生
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《中国的出路》之十二 （工人运动）
-- 魏京生
六四前后，我访问了西欧几个国家。我看到那里的中国人、外国人对中国民主的关注并没有退潮，不像某些人预测的那样糟糕。很多朋友认为这是国内形势的发展让人们重新燃起了希望之火。的确，国内形势的发展常常出人意料之外。近期内工潮突起，就是人们多年期待而又渐渐失去信心的一例。
在中共强大的专政机器压迫下，工会运动几十年都没有发展起来。原因有好几个。首先是工贼式的共产党工会的存在，成为监视和破坏工会运动的主要力量。工会的官员都拿政府的薪水
。在劳资双方发生矛盾时，习惯性地帮助官方和资方说话，很少站在工人的立场上说话。这次工潮中有些工会官员和罢工的工人对立，甚至动起手来。就是这种本质的反映。
其次就是，中共执政后就暴露出它的反人民的本质。几十年来它一直就把工人争取权益的斗争当作政治犯罪，给予严厉的镇压。六十年来，有无数自发的工人组织被加上反革命等罪名加以镇压。他们的领袖或进监狱；或被以各种方式加以迫害。没有领袖的工人组织很快就散伙了。
还有很多原因，但上边两项是最主要的原因。中共的专制统治加上工贼的破坏，使得中国工人无法组织起来维护自身的权益。而这正是港台和各国资本家可以在中国找到廉价劳动力的主要原因。
因为有了价廉物美的劳动力，外资企业才有了超额的剩余价值可赚。因为有了超额利润可赚，全世界资产阶级才会联合起来，捍卫中共专制制度的存在。就像大鱼吃小鱼；小鱼吃虾米一样，形成了牢不可破的食物链。
二十多年来，中国的民主运动伴随着工人运动，此起彼伏，奋斗不息。但是受到了中共和他们的西方盟友的联合镇压，一直难以振奋，难以坚持。被人们讥讽为“不成气候”。根本原因就是这个国际联盟的存在。
这个联盟迫使西方多数政客屈服于中共的意志，保护大资本的利益。甚至西方的工会也受到大企业的渗透，不敢关心中国的工人运动。这是中国的工会运动长期以来处于低迷状态的另一个重要的原因。
但是，被压抑得太狠的中国工人，必然会寻找突破口，开展工会运动来谋求自身的权益。最近起源于广东富士康工厂的工潮能够迅速蔓延到全国，证明了中国工人需要自己的工会，并且迫切需要组织起来维护自身的权益。年轻一代工人领袖的出现，给中国社会带来了一次机会。这一波以加薪为主要诉求的工潮，不但可以形成工人维权的团体；而且可以缓解国内正在发生的经济危机。从这两方面来说，都是中国社会的希望。
现在很多人都注意到了国内迅猛发展的通货膨胀，但是没有注意到这个通货膨胀和畸形的产业结构之间的关系。简单些说，就是工薪阶层的工资只占生产总值的一小部分；大部分产出的价值成为中外资本家的利润。这些利润大部分投向扩大生产能力和金融、房地产市场。当全球经济不景气时，主要依靠国际市场的畸形经济必然陷入困境，再加上国内政局不稳，大量资金兑换成外汇外逃。这些都必然导致国内市场货币过剩。这就是通货膨胀的根本原因。
解决这个问题的方法只有两个，没有第三个。
第一就是提高人民币的汇率，并且取消各种非关税壁垒。使得货币流出的同时，增加商品流入。恢复国内市场的平衡；吸收过量的流通货币。但这个方法必须伴随着第二：提高工薪阶层的实际收入
，迅速扩大国内消费市场。以免出现生产萎缩的多米诺骨牌效应。
这两项措施双管齐下的结果，必然会压缩中外企业的超额利润。也只有当平均利润率下降到合理水平时，中国的经济才会稳定下来。否则，这些年来的大起大落必然会加大幅度，最终导致经济崩溃。
为什么中共统治集团采取了各种措施，但是就是不采取这两项简单有效的措施呢？关键就在超额利润上。超额利润不但养肥了贪官污吏；而且腐化了西方政治。这是中共政权生存的命根子。如果这一波工潮不能迫使中共恢复正常的经济结构，那么只有等到中国社会崩溃，才能够重新收拾旧山河了。
恐怕这是中国崩溃之前的最后机会了。
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聆听魏京生先生的相关录音，请访问：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS100611ChinaWayOut12workersunions.mp3
（撰写并录音于2010年6月11日。自由亚洲电台播出。）
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