Chairman Mao must be turning in his grave: days before the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 94th anniversary, the proletariats from a factory in the late Party leader’s home province decided to sever ties with the party he brought to power.
Zhang Lingcai, 60, told the NGO Chinese Human Rights Defenders that all Communist Party members in a dyeing and weaving factory in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, had renounced their Party membership. Some of them had been in the Party for decades. It is unclear exactly how many of the 1,003 factory workers were members.
The workers were long unhappy with the Hunan authorities for terminating the benefits of the factory’s retirees, said Zhang, the representative of the factory’s self-support group—a union-like organization.
