The following scholars have offered public statements of support for the striking workers at Jasic Technology in Shenzhen and the Chinese university students who have been organizing in solidarity with the workers. In addition, the scholars express their intention to boycott the next World Congress on Marxism organized in Beijing. The statements are constantly updated here and on a Github site accessible in China.
John Roemer
Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics, Yale University (Attendee of the 1st World Congress on Marxism in 2015)
When I was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, in 1968, we progressive students formed a similar support group for campus workers. This was part of our effort to build a Worker-Student Alliance. We were certainly not suppressed as the Chinese students have been. The idea that Marxist students should support the workers on their campuses is a natural one; the fact that the Chinese government is suppressing such students — even kidnapping then — exposes the political leadership as sham Marxists. A worker-student alliance is most basic necessity of a communist movement….I had already decided not to attend the next Marxist convocation in China.
约翰·罗默（John Roemer），耶鲁大学政治科学与经济学教授（罗默教授出席了北京大学于2015年举办的第一次世界马克思主义大会）
1968年，当我还是加州大学伯克利分校一名研究生的时候，我们这些进步学生们也成立了一个类似的小组来支持校园里的工人们。这是我们试图建立工人-学生联盟的一种努力。显然，我们并没有遭遇到如今的这些中国学生们所遭到的镇压。马克思主义学生很自然地应当在校园里支持工人，而中国政府正在镇压这样的学生，甚至还绑架他们，这一事实暴露出中国政治领导层是假的马克思主义者。工人-学生联盟是共产主义运动最基本的要素……我已经决定不再参与在中国举办的下一次马克思主义大会。
Allen W. Wood
Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University
I am alarmed by reports of treatment of workers and students at Shenzhen Jasic Technology in Shenzhen China. I want to add my name to protests against this repression. I also want to join those who intend to boycott China’s World Congress on Marxism. I say this as a longtime Marx scholar who, before learning of
this news, has recently published an article on Marx (in Chinese translation) in the journal Social Sciences in China (中国社会科学).
艾伦·W·伍德（Allen W. Wood），印第安纳大学哲学教授
中国工人与学生在深圳佳士科技事件中受到的待遇令我感到震惊。我希望参与联名，以抗议对他们的镇压。我也希望参与抵制在中国举办的世界马克思主义大会。我是作为一个长期研究马克思的学者来作出此项声明的：在知晓这些消息之前，《中国社会科学》杂志刚刚发表了我一篇关于马克思的论文的中译本。
Ruth Milkman
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY
At the School of Labor and Urban Studies at the City University of New York where I teach, many of our students are actively involved in unions and in supporting the efforts of workers to organize, both during their studies and after they graduate. I am appalled that leading Chinese universities have become involved in repression of their students and recent graduates who have supported the efforts by Jasic workers to organize a
union. As a recent president of the American Sociological Association, the largest professional association of sociologists in the world, I support the boycott of China’s World Congress of Marxism and will urge my colleagues to do the same, as well as to scrutinize ties between their universities and leading Chinese universities complicit in this repression.
鲁思·米尔克曼（Ruth Milkman），纽约市立大学社会学杰出教授
我任教于纽约市立大学的劳工与城市研究学院。在我们院，不论是就读期间还是毕业以后，许多学生都积极地参与工会，并热情地支持工人们的自我组织。中国最顶尖的大学镇压支持佳士工厂组织工会的学生与校友，我对此深表震惊。作为美国社会学协会，也是世界上最大的社会学专业协会的前任主席，我支持抵制中国的世界马克思主义大会。我也会敦促我的同事们参与抵制，并敦促他们仔细审视自己所在的大学同参与镇压学生的中国顶尖大学之间的合作关系。
Noam Chomsky
Laureate Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona
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Samuel Farber
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College of CUNY
The Chinese government’s crackdown on workers, labor activities and leftist students in recent weeks is deeply troubling. It comes into sharp contrast with how the Chinese government has been using Marxism as the main tool of ideological legitimation. To continue to participate in China’s World Congress of Marxism and other officially sponsored Marxism-related events means we would stay complicit in the Chinese government’s game. Leftist scholars around the world should join the boycott of such conferences and events.
诺姆·乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky），亚利桑那大学语言学教授
联名：萨缪尔·法比尔（Samuel Farber），纽约市立大学布鲁克林学院政治学荣休教授
最近几星期以来，中国政府对工人、劳工活动分子与左翼学生的打击令人深感不安。中国政府用马克思主义作为维系意识形态合法性的主要工具，而这种打击与之形成了尖锐的冲突。如果我们继续参与中国的世界马克思主义大会与其它官方赞助的马克思主义相关的活动，那就意味着我们成为了中国政府的这种勾当的同谋。全世界的左翼学者都应该参与抵制这类会议与活动。
Bridget Fowler
Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Glasgow
Please note my boycott of this Congress [World Congress of Marxism] in the light of the Chinese State’s crackdown on labour and student activists in Shenzhen. I am actively involved in the movement for socialism in Britain and internationally, and might well have decided to visit China for the Congress in order to debate aspects of Marxism. However, I regard the right to unionization to represent workers’ grievances, to free speech and to lawyers (especially when under arrest) as crucial for an emancipated society. It seems these procedures are being flouted in this case, which – sadly – helps to undermine the case globally for anti-capitalist goals.
布里奇特·福勒（Bridget Fowler），格拉斯哥大学社会学教授
鉴于中国对劳工与学生活动分子的打击，请接受我对这一会议（即世界马克思主义大会）的抗议。我是不列颠地区和国际上社会主义运动的积极参与者，而且也曾有意去中国参与这一会议来探讨马克思主义的某些方面。然而，我将工人们参与工会以表达不满的权利、言论自由和邀请律师（尤其是在被拘留的情况下）的权利视为解放的社会的关键要素。看起来，中国政府在公然藐视这些常规，这很不幸地妨害了全球范围内反资本主义的目标。
Rebecca E. Karl
Professor of History, New York University
I would like to be included as a signatory on the statement strongly objecting to the Chinese State’s suppression of student and worker activists. The escalation in suppressing activity in China aimed at supporting the rights of workers to organize and the rights of students to speak their conscience is not only distressing, it is appalling, in particular for a state that professes to follow Marxism as a legitimating ideology of rule.
丽贝卡·E·卡尔（Rebecca E. Karl），纽约大学历史学教授
我希望参与强烈抗议中国打击学生与工人活动分子的联署声明。在中国，对旨在支持工人组织权利与学生发表言论权利的活动的镇压正日益加强，这不仅令人不安，更是骇人听闻——这可是一个声称将马克思主义作为合法意识形态的国家
Chris Tilly
Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology, UCLA
I condemn the Chinese government’s repression of workers and their supporters in connection with an attempt to form a democratic, accountable union at Shenzhen Jasic Technology. The right to organize collectively, in order to petition and press for better labor standards, is a basic worker right, a basic citizens’ right, and a basic human right. I respect much that the Chinese government has done to lift the country out of poverty, but overcoming poverty is not sufficient without justice and human rights. As one consequence of my concern with these grave human rights violations, I will be boycotting China’s World Congress on Marxism.
克里斯·蒂利（Chris Tilly），加州大学洛杉矶分校城市规划与社会学教授
我谴责中国政府对工人与其支持者的镇压。这些工人与其支持者试图在深圳佳士科技建立一个民主、透明的工会。进行集体组织以展开申诉、要求更好的工作条件是一项基本的劳工权利，是一项基本的公民权利，更是一项基本的人权。我对于中国政府试图让整个国家摆脱贫困的行动表示敬意，但克服贫困问题的同时不能忽视正义与人权。出于对这些严重践踏人权的行为的考虑，我将抵制中国的世界马克思主义大会。
Leslie Sklair
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
As Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics and an admirer of the development of the social sciences in China over many decades, I find it deeply disappointing and worrying that leading Chinese universities have become involved in repression of their students and recent graduates who have supported the efforts by Jasic workers to organize a union. I therefore have no alternative but to support the boycott of China’s World Congress of Marxism and will urge my colleagues to do the same, as well as to scrutinize ties between their universities and leading Chinese universities complicit in this repression. I very much hope that this unfortunate situation can be quickly and fairly resolved and that the good name of the universities in China who have taken action against these students and former students can be restored.”
莱斯利·斯克莱尔（Leslie Sklair），伦敦政治经济学院社会学荣誉教授
作为伦敦政治经济学院社会学荣誉教授，作为对中国社会科学多年的发展感到钦佩的学者，我对于中国的顶尖大学参与镇压支持佳士工人组织工会的学生与校友一事深表失望与忧虑。有鉴于此，我别无选择：我支持抵制中国的世界马克思主义大会，并将敦促我的同事们来参与抵制，同时敦促他们仔细审视自己所在的大学同参与镇压学生的中国顶尖大学之间的合作关系。我非常希望这一不幸的事件能尽快获得妥善处理，也非常希望那些镇压了学生与校友的中国大学可以恢复声誉。
Robert Wolff
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
I stand in solidarity with my Chinese comrades, whose courageous work demands world-wide support. All of us in the Academy who believe in the right of workers to organize condemn the actions of the Chinese government, and we condemn as well as any of our American universities that are complicit in these actions by silently continuing their cooperation with Chinese universities.
罗伯特·沃尔夫（Robert Wolff），马萨诸塞州立大学阿姆赫斯特分校哲学荣誉教授
我与我的中国同志们站在一起。他们的勇气值得全世界范围的支持。学术界中所有相信工人有权组织起来的同仁都谴责中国政府的这些行为。我们同时也谴责美国境内一切对此保持沉默并继续与中国大学合作的大学，它们这样做，就是在成为中国大学的同谋。
Ken Surin
Professor Emeritus of Critical Theory, Duke University
China purports to uphold Marxist principles, so it is with sorrow that I note the repressive measures taken by the government against worker activists and Marxists. The Chinese government needs to give these measures urgent reconsideration, otherwise our inspiration and exemplar Karl Marx will be turning over in his grave.
肯内特·瑟林（Ken Surin），杜克大学批判理论荣誉教授
中国标榜自己遵循马克思主义的原则。因此，我非常悲伤地注意到，中国政府居然采取镇压性的措施来对待工人活动分子与马克思主义者。中国政府必须立即重新审视这些措施，否则卡尔·马克思这个带给了我们灵感的榜样即便在坟墓中也会不得安宁。
Christoph Görg
Head of the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna
I’m concerned that studying the work of Karl Marx and applying it to current working conditions are perceived as conflicting with the interests of a communist party. Critical and open minded discussions should be the basis of any strategies to construct a socialist society, otherwise we will miss this goal.
克里斯托弗·格尔吉（Christoph Görg），维也纳农业科学大学社会生态学院院长
令我感到困惑的是，研读卡尔·马克思的著作并将其应用于目前的工作条件之中竟然会同一个共产主义政党的利益发生冲突。对于任何试图建设社会主义社会的策略而言，批判性的开放讨论都应当是其基础，不然就会偏离这一目标。
Ulrich Brand
Professor and Chair of International Politics, University of Vienna, Austria
In the last weeks I closely followed through international media the hard measures the Chinese police and government are taken against students and workers in the aftermath of the attempt of workers to form a trade bunion at Jasic Shenzhen Technology Co., Ltd (Jasic). The Chinese way to socialism claims to improve the living conditions of Chinese people and the whole world looks on China to reach this peacefully. It is important that workers can organize and the students can raise their voices when they are in solidarity with workers. Therefore, I ask the Chinese police and government to set the imprisoned workers and students free and to enable an open debate about problematic working conditions. Karl Marx also insisted that a socialist and communist society required open discussions to detect and solve problems that emerge on the way to create a better society for all.
乌里奇·布兰德（Ulrich Brand），维也纳大学国际政治学教授
在过去的几个星期里，我通过国际媒体密切关注着中国警察与政府在深圳佳士科技成立工会失败后对学生与工人们采取的措施。中国道路的社会主义宣称将要提高中国人民的生活水准，全世界都希望看到中国通过和平的方式达到这一目的。工人们能组织起来，与工人团结在一起的学生们能够发出声音，这两点都是十分重要的。因此，我要求中国警察与政府释放被捕的工人与学生，并容许就工作条件进行公开讨论。卡尔·马克思坚信社会主义与共产主义社会需要公开的讨论来发现并解决社会中出现的问题，从而能够创造出一个对全人类来说都更好的社会。
Slavoj Žižek
Professor, Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, International Director, Birbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London
I thereby declare that I openly condemn the Chinese state’s crackdown on workers and students who try to organize themselves to protect workers’ rights.
I never participated in any Marxist events organized in China, and I will not do it.
斯拉沃热·齐泽克 (Slavoj Žižek), 卢布尔雅那大学教授
Marc Blecher
Chair and James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
Throughout my long career, I have always tried my best to be a friend of the Chinese people and their government. In my scholarship on labor politics, I have avoided taking sides, I’ve always wished for labor peace, and tried to suggest to Chinese colleagues some ways that I humbly think could help promote it. So it was actually difficult for me to sign on here. But I did so because I honestly believe that the government’s response around Jasic will undermine its own laudable goals of social harmony. I’ll be glad to discuss this further with any Chinese friends. I hope the government will see the wisdom in taking a different approach.
马克·布莱彻（Mark Blecher），欧柏林学院政治系James Monroe讲席教授，东亚研究系教授
在我的整个生涯里，我一直努力做中国人民和中国政府的朋友。我在研究劳工政治时总是避免站队，希望和平解决劳工问题，我也总是向中国同行们谨慎地提供一些我认为能帮助和平解决劳工问题的建议。所以对我来说，签这个名是很难的。但我仍然签名了，因为实话说，我认为政府设立的社会和谐的目标是值得赞扬的，但它在佳士事件上的反应会破坏这个目标。我愿意和中国朋友们进一步讨论这个问题。我希望政府能明智地选择另一条道路。
Richard Smith
Independent Scholar, Founder of SystemChangeNotClimateChange.org
I stand fully in solidarity with the Jasic Industry workers who are trying to form their own union and with the students who support their struggle. As a lifelong Marxist socialist and economic historian, I might find it highly ironic that the Chinese Communist Party which was born in the struggles of workers in the mid-1920s, which built its credibility among workers by assisting and leading the workers’ efforts to found their own trade unions in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Changsha and other cities, which eventually led the revolution to victory, and which has from the founding of the PRC has claimed to be the representative of the workers, claimed to govern in their interest — but is now repressing the efforts of workers to found a trade union in a private capitalist business, beating up and jailing workers and student supporters alike, taking the side of capital against labor.
But, in truth there really is no contradiction, no irony here, is there comrades? Yes it’s true that the CCP once led the workers struggles and by 1925-26 was even mostly comprised of industrial, commercial, and handicraft workers. But that ended with the slaughter of 1927. The revolutionary party that Mao led to power two decades later had virtually no workers. It did not then and never has since represented the workers. The party-army that won power in 1949 represented nothing but itself, the new party-army bureaucratic ruling class, the “new class” that installed itself as a Stalinist totalitarian party-state. The CCP was anti-worker, anti-democratic, anti-socialist from the day the Republic was founded, and even long before. Instead of emancipating the working class in 1949, installed a murderous dictatorship of the party-army-bureaucracy over and above the working class and all social classes, that reserved special brutality for the workers and their incipient trade union at Tiananmen in 1989, that broke the workers “iron rice bowl” in the 1990s to subject them to western capitalist exploitation, that in November-December 2017 turned parts of Beijing into a virtual war zone, leveling entire neighborhoods, driving tens of thousands of China’s migrant workers, whom the Communist Party press deigns to term a “low-end population” (diduan renkou) out of their homes in the midst of winter and out of Beijing in yet another step to “clean up” and gentrify the capital city. China’s nearly 300 million migrants are the hardest working, most exploited, least protected of all workers. Instead, they’re summarily evicted by a “socialist” government that even takes the trouble to demolish the “illegal” schools the migrants themselves built and paid for on their own in an effort to educate their children because the “communist” government denies them access to Beijing’s public schools. Their labor has built most of modern China. Yet the “Communist” Party forces them to live as a super-exploited apartheid class, denied access to housing, healthcare, public schools, social services, unemployment or pensions. And here, in the case of Jassic Industries, the fake Communist Party once again takes the side of capital against migrant labor, to break the workers’ struggle to form a trade union. But there’s no irony here, is there comrades? There’s no contradiction at all when the “Communist” party attacks, beats up, and arrests Marxist students, even Maoist workers and students. It’s consistent with your whole history since 1949, and even before. You have to do that, don’t you comrades? Because your greatest fear is those workers who might one day form a new Solidarity Trade Union and bring your government down. You fear the workers and the Marxist students, because they’re coming to get you comrades. And I will be cheering them on and lending my support.
理查德·史密斯（Richard Smith），独立学者，SystemChangeNotClimateChange.org创始人
我和佳士工人运动中尝试自主建立工会的工人以及支持工人运动的学生团结地站在一起。我一生都是一个马克思主义史学家，研究社会主义史和经济史。诞生于二十世纪二十年代中期工人运动的中国共产党，在工人中之所以能建立信誉，正是因为共产党在广州、上海、长沙等各个城市帮助和领导了工人的工会化运动。这最终导致了革命的胜利，也导致了在新中国建立之后共产党能宣称自己是工人阶级的唯一代表，宣称自己为工人阶级的利益进行统治。这个共产党现在却在镇压工人在私有的资产阶级产业中的工会化运动，殴打、囚禁工人与学生支持者，选择站在资本的一边对抗劳动者，我可能会觉得这非常非常讽刺。
但同志们，实际上这里根本没有矛盾，没有讽刺，不是吗？没错，中国共产党曾经领导过工人运动。在1925-26年以前，党的成员甚至大部分是工业、商业和手工业工人。但这结束于1927年的四一二屠杀。二十年之后，毛泽东领导的革命党里几乎没有工人。它在那时不代表工人，在那之后也没有代表过工人。1949年掌权的党和军队只代表它自己，只代表党和军队的新官僚统治阶级，只代表把自己建立成斯大林主义的极权党国的“新阶级”。共产党从新中国建立的那一天开始就是反工人、反民主、反社会主义的，甚至可以说在此之前很久就已经是这样的了。1949年并没有解放工人，相反，1949年在工人阶级和所有社会阶级之上建立了一个充满杀戮的、党-军队-官僚一体掌权的独裁政体。这个政体在1989年的天安门事件中对工人以及初步成型的工会极其残酷，在1990年代打破了工人的“铁饭碗”，使他们被迫接受西方资本主义的剥削，在2017年十一月、十二月把北京各地实际上变成了战区，在寒冬中把一个个街坊连根拔起，将成千上万的外来务工人员——共产党为他们设计了“低端人口”这样一个名词——逐出他们的家门，赶出北京，又一次对“净化”、中产阶级化了北京市。中国近三亿的外来务工人员是所有工人中最勤劳、最被剥削、最不受保护的。不仅如此，他们还被一个“社会主义”政府集体驱逐，这个政府甚至还摧毁了劳工自己出资建立，用来教育自己的孩子的“非法”学校，因为“共产主义”政府不允许他们的孩子上北京的公立学校。他们的劳动建立起了大部分的现代中国，但“共产”党逼他们以一种被高度剥削的、被种族隔离的社会阶级的形态生存，不让他们获得住房、医保、公立教育资源、社会服务、失业救助以及养老金。这次在佳士工运里，假冒的共产党又一次站到资本那边对抗外来务工人员，打击工人建立工会的运动。但同志们，实际上这里根本没有讽刺，不是吗？“共产”党攻击、殴打、逮捕马克思主义学生，甚至是毛派工人和学生的时候，其实根本没有矛盾。这和1949年之后，甚至是之前的历史是完全一致的。同志们，你们必须这样做，不是吗？因为你们最大的恐惧，是工人有朝一日会形成新的团结的工会，推翻你们的政府。你们害怕工人和马克思主义学生，因为他们冲着你们这些同志们来。我会为他们欢呼，为他们提供帮助。
Frederick Neuhouser
Professor of Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German, Barnard College, Columbia University
I join other fellow scholars in condemning the Chinese government’s recent crackdown on worker and student activists who had been involved in the Shenzhen Jasic workers’ effort to organize a union. It is ironical that this very state has been actively adopting Marxism as an ideological instrument to justify its power. I thereby support the boycott of China’s World Congress on Marxism and other similar conferences sponsored by the Chinese government. Academia should not be complicit in a state’s political oppression.
弗雷德里克·诺伊豪泽尔（Frederick Neuhouser），哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院哲学系教授，德国研究系Viola Manderfeld讲席教授
我和其他学者一起谴责中国政府最近对参与深圳佳士工人工会化运动的工人、学生活动分子的打压。对一个积极将马克思主义作为意识形态工具来证明权力合法性的国家来说，这非常讽刺。因此我支持抵制中国的世界马克思主义大会，以及中国政府支持的其他类似会议。学术不应该成为国家政治压迫的同谋。
Eileen Boris
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
It is heartening to see so many university students and labor activists supporting the Jasic workers in their fight to exercise their basic rights to form a union in their workplace. At the same time, the Chinese government, which has partly built its legitimacy on Marxist ideology, attacks students who have put their belief in Marxism in practice by joining hands with struggling workers. Therefore, I have decided to boycott the Congress till the government shows justice to the labor and student activists.
艾琳·鲍里斯（Eileen Boris），加州大学圣芭芭拉分校杰出教授
Steven Lukes
Professor of Sociology, New York University
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Nancy Fraser
Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research
Brian Leiter
Karl L. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago
Reports of the Chinese state’s repression of workers seeking to form a union and of students who support them in Shenzhen are most disturbing. Scholars and students outside China should show solidarity with the victims of this ominous crackdown by boycotting public events concerning Marxism in China.
斯蒂文·卢克斯 (Steven Lukes), 纽约大学社会学教授
联名：南希·弗里泽 (Nancy Fraser), 社会研究新学院哲学与政治学讲席教授
布莱恩·里特 (Brian Leiter), 芝加哥大学法理学讲席教授
中国政府打压试图组建工会的深圳工人和支持工人的学生，这一系列报道令人极其忧虑。中国境外的学者和学生应该和这场严酷的镇压行动中的受害者们团结地站在一起，抵制在中国举办的与马克思主义有关的公共活动。
Wendy Brown
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
温迪·布朗（Wendy Brown），加州大学伯克利大学政治学系教授
Hillary Wainright
Research Fellow, Transnational Institute
I was shocked to read in the Financial Times, and then from academic and NGO colleagues across the world, about the outrageous repression of workers organizing a trade union in Shenzhen Basic Technology and then of students and academics who organized in solidarity with this basic campaign for workers rights. We cannot ignore such totally unjustifiable behavior – including kidnapping and disappearance. This is the behavior of a dictatorship. I appeal on all those who believe in the dignity of humanity and especially all who believe that democratic socialism could be a means of realizing human potential, to do all they can, as academics, as journalists, as NGO activists, trade unionists and just as citizens to condemn the Chinese government and refuse to accept any participation in it’s cultural activities.As a Fellow of The Transnational Institute, i participated several years ago in a major gathering of NGO’s in Beijing. But I will refuse such invitations in the future until the repression is lifted, the disappeared and the kidnapped returned to their homes with apologies and compensation for social, psychological and bodily injury and freedom of organization, and expression and dissent are publicly restored and strengthened. I will urge the Transnational Institute to spread this alarm and this protest to all its network of influential scholars and activists across the world.As an editor or an influential magazine and web site , Red Pepper,I will ensure that we publish details of the Chinese government’s scandalous suppression and destruction of democracy.We must all follow the lead of Noam Chomsky, Cornell University and Leslie Sklair in protesting strongly at the Chinese Government’s authoritarianism and the violation of academic freedom by Renmin and other universities, but also in scrutinizing and questioning any links with universities or NGO’s that are complicit in this repression.
希拉里·温赖特（Hilary Wainwright），Transnational Institute研究员
我从金融时报、世界各地的学者以及NGO同行们那里听说了组织工会的深圳佳士工人以及与工人团结在一起、支持工人运用基本权利的学生和学者被残酷镇压的消息，我感到很震惊。我们不能无视这种完全无理的行为——包括绑架和强迫消失。这是独裁的行为。我呼吁所有相信人类的尊严的人，尤其是相信民主社会主义是实现人的潜能的手段的人，穷尽自己作为学者、记者、NGO活动分子、工会活动分子，或者普通公民的所能，来谴责中国政府，拒绝参与其组织的任何文化活动。
几年前，我作为Transnational Institute的研究员在北京参加了一个大型NGO聚会。但在将来，除非这场镇压结束，除非被强迫消失、被绑架的行动者回家并且获得道歉，他们受到的社会、精神和身体伤害以及他们的组织自由受到的伤害得到补偿，不同政见的表述在公众场合被恢复、被强化，我会拒绝所有这类的邀请。我会敦促Transnational Institute将这个警告传递给其网络内所有散布在世界各地的有影响力的学者和NGO活动分子。
作为Red Pepper——一个有影响力的杂志和网站——的编辑，我会保证我们的媒体报导中国政府的丑恶镇压和对民主的破坏。
我们要跟随诺姆·乔姆斯基、康奈尔大学和莱斯利·斯克莱尔的脚步，强烈抗议中国政府的威权主义行为，以及人民大学等高校破坏学术自由的行为。我们还要彻查、质问我们与所有在镇压中充当共谋的高校和NGO之间的联系。
Peter Evans
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
彼得·埃文斯（Peter Evans），加州大学伯克利分校社会学系荣休教授
Michael Walzer
Professor Emeritus, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
Labor activists and leftist students defending the right to organize unions are our comrades in China. Everyone on the international left owes them strong support.
迈克尔·沃尔泽（Michael Walzer），高等研究院社会科学学院荣休教授
保护自己组织工会的权利的劳工活动分子和左翼学生是我们在中国的同志。全球左翼的所有人都应该坚定地支持他们。
Corey Robin
Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College
In the last several months, workers at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology factory in China have been trying to organize a union. Students and activists have protested in solidarity with the workers. The Chinese government has cracked down hard on this movement, seizing and detaining at least 20 of the students and workers, who have essentially disappeared.
International scholars on the left—including Chomsky, Rebecca Karl, Eileen Boris, Robert Wolff, Slavoj Zizek, Ruth Milkman, and many more—have issued statements of solidarity with the students and workers. They have also declared that they will boycott China’s World Conference on Marxism and other related conferences. As Chomsky says, “To continue to participate in…officially sponsored Marxism-related events means we would stay complicit in the Chinese government’s game. Leftist scholars around the world should join the boycott of such conferences and events.”
Cornell has already suspended two student exchanges with Renmin University in China.
I heartily endorse this movement, and urge scholars—and universities—around the world to join it. The academic boycott of countries that systematically violate basic human rights is an appropriate step for academics to take.
科瑞·罗宾（Corey Robin），纽约市立大学布鲁克林学院政治学教授
在过去的几个月里，中国深圳佳士科技有限公司工厂的工人试图组织工会。学生和活动分子和工人们团结在一起进行了抗议。中国政府大力打压了这个运动，逮捕、扣留了至少二十名学生和工人。他们实际上已经失踪了。
包括诺姆·乔姆斯基、瑞贝卡·卡尔、艾琳·鲍里斯、罗伯特·沃尔夫、斯拉沃热·齐泽克、鲁思·米尔克曼和很多其他人在内的国际左翼学者已经发出声明，和学生与工人站在一起。他们同时表态要抵制中国的世界马克思主义大会以及其他相关的会议。乔姆斯基说：“如果我们继续参与中国的世界马克思主义大会与其它官方赞助的马克思主义相关的活动，那就意味着我们成为了中国政府的这种勾当的同谋。全世界的左翼学者都应该参与抵制这类会议与活动。”
康奈尔大学也已经停止了和中国人民大学的两个学生交换项目。
我完全支持这个运动，并敦促世界各地的学者和高校加入这个运动。对于学者们而言，抵制一个系统性地侵犯基本人权的国家是适当的措施。
Robert Cliver
Professor and Chair of History, Humboldt State University
The Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 with the promise of liberating China’s working class and developing the nation’s economy. Although China’s economy has developed rapidly in the past seventy years, the promise of liberation has more often than not fallen victim to oppression and dictatorship. In the PRC today the “vanguard party of the proletariat” routinely violates the constitutional rights of workers, lawyers, and students who support workers rights through illegal incarceration and other police measures. As a scholar of Chinese history and the Chinese labor movement I find the recent disappearances of students advocating for workers’ rights distressing and unacceptable. If the CCP takes its role as the vanguard of the proletariat seriously, the party and the People’s Government should immediately release these students as well as worker organizers and lawyers who have faced illegal incarceration for pursuing their rights and interests under Chinese law.
Stuart Chen-Hayes
Professor, Counselor Education, City University of New York/Lehman College
I fully support efforts to condemn the government of China for once again violating the human rights of both workers and university students. With a long, sordid history of repression, China continues to harm citizens and increasingly non-citizens in the most repressive of ways. Solidarity.
Scholars Supporting Jasic Activists 