[Email Campaign] Calling on China’s Ministry of Education to Stop campus suppression on Marxist students

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In light of repeated repressive measures by the authorities of public universities against student activists since the Shenzhen Jasic incident last July, SACOM is hereby launching a global email campaign calling on the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China to address our demands.

We support the organising of worker-student alliances in China, and we believe that neither workers’ efforts to form unions nor student activities to support such efforts should be criminalised. Therefore, we demand that the Ministry of Education:

1) Stop the universities’ physical assaults upon and harassment of all student activists and campus workers for their Marxist beliefs and student-worker alliance activities;

2) Ensure that students do not face the threat of expulsion for their participation in labour organising, and that their right to education is protected.

To support this campaign, please send your email to the minister of the Ministry of Education to demand an end of campus suppression.

Please fill in your name, your email address and the organisation or school you represent (the last row) to show the international solidarity.

[Email Campaign] Calling on China’s Ministry of Education to Stop campus suppression on Marxist students

  

尊敬的陈部长：(Please scroll down for English)

近日，中国多间公立大学校方打压参与校内工人组织、去年夏天支持工厂工人组建工会的学生，我在此致信表达对此的谴责和诉求。

一直以来，各高校的马克思主义学会（下称马会）致力调研校内职工的工作条件及帮助他们改善劳动条件，但现时遭受校方管理层的严重打压。2018年9月，校方以关闭马会恐吓成员。2018年12月，北大发布了一项告示，宣布校方将改组马会，包括将马会原主席革职，并指定新成员代替原有的骨干学生，但这些新成员从未参加过任何马会活动。马会原有成员组织了一场和平示威，抗议校方的无理改组；然而，大学保安却以肢体攻击，将学生强行关在教室内，校方管理层甚至报警，让警察到场强迫他们观看早前因参与支持佳士工人活动而被拘留的学生的“认罪”片段。

不仅是北京大学校方对马会进行打压，人民大学、南京大学、和北京语言大学的马克思主义社团皆被校方强行吊销。与此同时，校方持续监视及打压在网上声援佳士事件和支持校内职工的马会学生。

随着打压越演越烈，北大生展振振于1月2日被捕。两日后，在没有任何调查的情况下，校方举行了一次会议，通过开除展同学的决议。到了1月底，再有五名支持佳士事件的北大和人大学生被警察带走，至今仍然失联。

有鉴于上述事件，我强烈谴责大学校方和政府共谋，惩罚及审查支持工人的学生。透过这封信，我要求：
1. 停止肢体攻击和骚扰信仰马克思主义并实践工学团结运动的学生运动者及校园工人。
2. 保障学生的受教育的权利，确保不会再有学生因支持工人运动而被退学。

Calling on China’s Ministry of Education to Stop campus suppression on Marxist students
Dear Minister Chen,

I am writing to state my demand regarding the repression of students at several public universities for their involvement in campus workers’ organising and support for factory workers’ attempts to unionise last summer.

Marxist Societies in universities had been conducting workers’ inquiries and helping workers to improve their conditions on campus, but now they are facing severe repressions from university authorities. In September 2018, Peking University (PKU) threatened to shut down the group. In late December, PKU released an announcement and carried out a takeover by removing the head from his post and replacing leading members with students who had never participated in previous activities. When former members of the Marxist Society staged a peaceful demonstration to protest against the takeover, university security guards physically assaulted and forcibly barricaded them in classrooms. University authorities even went so far as to call the police, who came and forced the students to watch coerced “confession” videos of activists from the Jasic campaign who had been detained earlier.

Besides the takeover of PKU Marxist Society, the university authorities of Renmin University, Nanjing University and Beijing Language and Culture University all forcibly revocated their Marxist Societies. Meanwhile, these universities have been constantly surveilling and repressing Marxist students who speak out online for the detained Jasic activists and campus workers.

On January 2nd, as the crackdown deepened, a PKU student named Zhan Zhenzhen was arrested. Only two days later, without thorough investigations, PKU authorities held a meeting and made the decision to expel him. In late January, five more students from Peking University and Renmin University, who had supported the Jasic activists, were taken away by the police and are still missing.

In light of the above actions, I strongly condemn university authorities’ collusion with the state to punish and censor students for supporting workers. I am writing to the Ministry of Education to demand the following:

1) Stop the universities’ physical assaults upon and harassment of all student activists and campus workers for their Marxist beliefs and student-worker alliance activities;

2) Ensure that students do not face the threat of expulsion for their participation in labour organising, and that their right to education is protected.

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Here is the email to the minister of Ministry of Education:

Dear Minister Chen,

I am writing to state my demand regarding the repression of students at several public universities for their involvement in campus workers’ organising and support for factory workers’ attempts to unionise last summer.

Marxist Societies in universities had been conducting workers’ inquiries and helping workers to improve their conditions on campus, but now they are facing severe repressions from university authorities. In September 2018, Peking University (PKU) threatened to shut down the group. In late December, PKU released an announcement and carried out a takeover by removing the head from his post and replacing leading members with students who had never participated in previous activities. When former members of the Marxist Society staged a peaceful demonstration to protest against the takeover, university security guards physically assaulted and forcibly barricaded them in classrooms. University authorities even went so far as to call the police, who came and forced the students to watch coerced “confession” videos of activists from the Jasic campaign who had been detained earlier.

Besides the takeover of PKU Marxist Society, the university authorities of Renmin University, Nanjing University and Beijing Language and Culture University all forcibly revocated their Marxist Societies. Meanwhile, these universities have been constantly surveilling and repressing Marxist students who speak out online for the detained Jasic activists and campus workers.

On January 2nd, as the crackdown deepened, a PKU student named Zhan Zhenzhen was arrested. Only two days later, without thorough investigations, PKU authorities held a meeting and made the decision to expel him. In late January, five more students from Peking University and Renmin University, who had supported the Jasic activists, were taken away by the police and are still missing.

In light of the above actions, I strongly condemn university authorities’ collusion with the state to punish and censor students for supporting workers. I am writing to the Ministry of Education to demand the following:

1) Stop the universities’ physical assaults upon and harassment of all student activists and campus workers for their Marxist beliefs and student-worker alliance activities;

2) Ensure that students do not face the threat of expulsion for their participation in labour organising, and that their right to education is protected.