Students Assaulted Amid Crackdown on Marxist Activism – China Digital Times (CDT)

Two Nanjing University students were assaulted this week for protesting against administrators’ refusal to recognize a Marxist student group. The incident is the latest in a series of events that highlight the further erosion of academic freedom on college campuses nationwide. In August, students from Nanjing University, Peking University, and Renmin University were detained after they traveled to Shenzhen to support worker efforts to form a union at Jasic Technology factory. Student participants from Renmin University were punished for their activism, with authorities putting students on blacklists and ordering protesters to be sent home. Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School subsequently suspend two exchange programs with Renmin University in response to the crackdown. The attack on student activists and supporters of the country’s evolving labor movement has raised questions about the Chinese government’s commitment to the very Marxist values that students are taught to uphold.