Editing Strike action (section)

===People's Republic of China and the former Soviet Union===
{{main|Trade unions in the Soviet Union|All-China Federation of Trade Unions}}
[[File:Strajk sierpniowy w Stoczni Gdańskiej im. Lenina 09.jpg|thumb|[[Gdańsk Shipyard|Lenin Shipyard workers]], Poland, on strike in August 1980, with the name of the state-controlled trade union crossed out in protest]]

In some [[Marxist–Leninist]] states, such as the [[People's Republic of China]], striking was illegal and viewed as [[counter-revolutionary]], and labor strikes are considered to be [[taboo]] in most East Asian cultures. In 1976, China signed the [[International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights]], which guaranteed the right to unions and striking, but Chinese officials declared that they had no interest in allowing these liberties.<ref>"Still waiting for Nike to do it," by Tim Connor, page 70.</ref> In June 2008, the municipal government in the [[Shenzhen Special Economic Zone]] introduced draft labor regulations, which a [[labor rights]] advocacy group says would, if implemented and enforced, virtually restore Chinese workers' right to strike.<ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1173682 'Factory to the world will soon get the right to strike'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703064242/http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1173682 |date=3 July 2008 }}, by Venkatesan Vembu, [[Daily News and Analysis]], 26 June 2008.</ref> {{Obsolete source|reason=It is unlikely that the legislation has stayed in the draft stage for over 13 years. More recent citations are needed about whether the legislation has been passed or not.|date=April 2022}}

In the Soviet Union, strikes occurred throughout the existence of the USSR, most notably in the 1930s. After World War II, they diminished both in number and in scale.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Orlov V.N. |author2=Bogdanov S.V. |title=КОЛЛЕКТИВНЫЕ ТРУДОВЫЕ КОНФЛИКТЫ В СССР В 1930-1950-х гг.: ПРИЧИНЫ ВОЗНИКНОВЕНИЯ, ФОРМЫ ПРОТЕКАНИЯ, СПОСОБЫ РАЗРЕШЕНИЯ|trans-title=COLLECTIVE LABOR CONFLICTS IN THE USSR IN 1930-1950s: REASONS OF OCCURRENCE, FORMS, WAYS OF RESOLUTION|url=http://www.yurclub.ru/docs/other/article143.html|language=ru}}</ref> [[Trade unions in the Soviet Union]] served in part as a means to educate workers about the country's economic system. [[Vladimir Lenin]] referred to trade unions as "Schools of Communism".{{Citation needed paragraph|date=March 2021|reason=The preceding two sentences require citations to reliable sources.}}