Edmund Malesky and Viktoria Zlomanova offer a lucid account of General Secretary Tô Lâm's consolidation of power and the Vietnamese Communist Party's pivot from state-enterprise dominance to private-sector-led growth. Their developmental-state comparison — Vietnam against South Korea and Singapore — is worth reading. But the framework of the piece is political economy without labour: the question of what Vietnam's workers are gaining or losing in this transition is not asked, and the data (…)

China's party-state continues to concentrate power and extend its reach, resting on an economic base that continues to erode. Three recent developments illuminate the pattern. The Ministry of Human Resources has published a five-year employment plan that for the first time in decades sets no urban job-creation target — 49 million migrant workers returned to their villages last year and the agricultural share of the workforce is rising for the first time in decades. Meanwhile, the coast (…)

Chaudronnier, militant syndical de masse, membre du comité central du Parti communiste internationaliste, part en Allemagne pour y militer, emprisonné à Berlin de 1942 à 1945. Travaillant comme chaudronnier dans l'aviation, Auguste Caillon fut un syndicaliste actif dans l'usine Bloch à Courbevoie (Seine, Hauts-de-Seine) qui, nationalisée, devint la SNCASO en 1937. Communiste oppositionnel au début des années 1930, il rallia le mouvement trotskyste et fut membre, en 1936, du rayon (…)