At least a thousand people and probably many more have been enslaved in brick factories and mines in Shanxi and Henan provinces. Children and adolescents have been kidnapped from the streets and railway stations in China to be enslaved in the most disgusting conditions by “modern” slave owners whose only purpose in life is to make money.
Local Chinese authorities have been complicit in this modern slave trade. One slave camp was owned by a village party secretary. Of course China has laws prohibiting such practices, but if the local authorities, the police and the slave traders are all working together and protecting each other, the laws can never be implemented. There has been a huge crackdown, hundreds of people have been rescued and exploiters have been arrested. Some of the slave traders and bosses will no doubt be executed. But will it solve the problem?
Communist party organizations at the local level have degenerated into exploiters and oppressors of the people. The party central in Beijing is powerless to stop them. After the crackdown, the ugly beasts will rear their heads again to kidnap innocent people from China's streets. Laws are not enough. The only way to crush the oppressors and exploiters is the dictatorship of the proletariat – that is democracy for the people and dictatorship for the enemies of the people. Nothing else will do. To solve this problem, a revolutionary mass movement is needed: to swipe away the slave owners hiding inside the Communist Party.
To rebel is justified!
(The Guardian: Enslaved, burned and beaten: police free 450 from Chinese brick factories), (The New York Times: Reports of Forced Labor Unsettle China), (The Times: Children snatched off the streets to work as slaves).
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