The Chinese working class movement is probably the largest in the world, it is constrained in its ability to organise and form independent unions. The ongoing mass protests in Hong Kong have focused renewed attention to the situation in China and its labour movement.

For this week's program, we play a recorded talk by Kevin Lin, an activist and researcher of China’s labor movement, on the Chinese labour movement and international solidarity. The full recording of the international meeting that Kevin participated in can be found on the page of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists.

Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region.

It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia