Taiwanese manufacturing contractor Foxconn\u2014a firm responsible for assembling as much as 40% of global consumer electronics products\u2014has received international infamy for the inferior labor conditions at some of their China-based plants. While the company has attracted some fabricated criticism, and has taken reluctant steps towards democratizing labor in a country where labor advocacy is incredibly risky, the worker suicides that brought Foxconn global notoriety in 2010 have continued. In late September, 24-year-old Xu Lizhi took his life at a Foxconn plant in Shenzhen after toiling there for four years. A post from Libcom.org\u2019s Nao blog has translated Xu\u2019s obituary from the Shenzhen Daily, as well as several of the poems that the late young worker had become known for among his colleagues at the Foxconn campus. The first translation is Xu\u2019s final writing before taking his own life on September 30:<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cOn My Deathbed\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nI want to take another look at the ocean, behold the vastness of tears from half a lifetime<\/p>\n
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\nI want to climb another mountain, try to call back the soul that I\u2019ve lost<\/p>\n
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\nI want to touch the sky, feel that blueness so light<\/p>\n
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\nBut I can\u2019t do any of this, so I\u2019m leaving this world<\/p>\n
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\nEveryone who\u2019s heard of me<\/p>\n
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\nShouldn\u2019t be surprised at my leaving<\/p>\n
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\nEven less should you sigh or grieve<\/p>\n
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\nI was fine when I came, and fine when I left.<\/p>\n
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