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Tiananmen vigil in Hong Kong draws thousands despite coronavirus-related ban Police stand back as crowds pour into Victoria Park in Causeway Bay and take up a couple of soccer pitches. Show of defiance comes on a politically charged day as legislature passes a law criminalising disrespect for national anthem.
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Thousands flooded (...)Philippines: From Lockdown to Crackdown – Statement on the Anti-Terror Bill Youth activists hit the streets wearing face masks and defying the government lockdown to protest the imminent passage of a new anti-terror law in the Philippines. University of the Philippines Campus in Quezon City. Photo courtesy of Susan Corpuz. 2020 June 4.
Focus on the Global South joins (...)Urgent Appeal: Malaysian Government Linked Company (GLC) - Edgenta UEMS Attacks Frontline Hospital Workers and Union! A Malaysian government linked company (GLC), UEM Group Berhad, through its subsidiary, Edgenta UEMS, is currently engaged in a vicious union busting campaign; aggressively victimizing frontline hospital cleaners and their worksite union officials.
Through privatization policies in 1997, all (...)Hong Kong : Transnational Companies HSBC, StanChart and Jardines publicly back Hong Kong security law plan, after criticism from China’s state media British multinational banks HSBC, Standard Chartered, and conglomerate Jardine Matheson group have publicly supported Beijing’s plan to promulgate national security laws in Hong Kong. It came after Chinese state media warned HSBC that it would “lose all its clients” if it stayed silent on the (...)
Hong Kong passes law to criminalise insult of Chinese national anthem Hong Kong’s legislature has passed a controversial bill criminalising insult of the Chinese national anthem by a comfortable majority, despite months of wrangling over fears of curbs to free expression.
The vote on Thursday 4 saw 41 lawmakers – constituting the council’s pro-Beijing majority – (...)Hong Kong to lead Tiananmen remembrance despite virus gathering ban Hong Kong will on Thursday 4 lead global remembrance of China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown, with people lighting candles in neighbourhoods across the restless city after authorities banned a mass vigil because of the coronavirus.
Open discussion of the brutal suppression is forbidden inside (...)About Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil has been banned, but the city’s spirit of commemoration for June 4th shines on.
Published : 9:00am, 3 Jun, 2020 by Holly Chik , Kimmy Chung and Jeffie Lam (SCMP)
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3087246/hong-kongs-tiananmen-vigil-has-been-banned-citysHong Kong’s annual Tiananmen vigil, banned for the first time in 30 years: what you need to know about June 4 event in the city The event, the only one of its size on Chinese soil, has been called off by city police amid a ban on large gatherings due to the Covid-19 pandemic. And with a new national security law in the wings, organisers fear the vigil, which shines a spotlight on the 1989 crackdown, may be outlawed (...)
US: A Call to Revolt In William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice, later made into a film that won Meryl Streep an Academy Award, a young Polish woman named Sophie Zawistowska arrives at Auschwitz with her two children. She begs a Nazi camp doctor not to send her kids to the gas chambers. He offers her a sadistic (...)
How Jewish Socialists Fought to Stop the Pogroms of the Russian Civil War The Civil War of 1917–21 brought the third wave of pogroms in the former Russian Empire, mostly perpetrated by the counterrevolutionary forces. But even some Red Army units committed antisemitic atrocities — and independent Jewish socialists played a decisive role in forcing the Soviet state to (...)
Guest workers on US farms are in the eye of the coronavirus storm In April, President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that, while stopping almost all kinds of legal immigration for at least two months, he was placing no limits on the continued recruitment of H-2A temporary migrant farm worker by growers. Trump claimed the escalating COVID-19 pandemic made (...)
The American Working Class on Unfamiliar and Dangerous Terrain: A Fightback Begins The working class in the United States faces tremendous difficulties, but there are some hopeful signs of movement in workplaces and unions, in communities, and on the left. As this article was being edited, the national uprising against the police murder of George Floyd spread across the (...)
US: The real definition of the word “Curfew” Policing is itself a kind of endless curfew. To the defenders of order, there are always fires that need covering because there is always disorder lurking in the populace, threatening to burn the system down.
A curfew is a form of incarceration. It is the police regulation and control of the (...)How new is the Green New Deal for the Global South? The Green New Deal manifestos in the US and UK are among the most progressive proposals coming out of the industrialised world, but they remain flawed from the perspective of the colonised Global South, and fall short of the fundamental systemic shifts we need to save life on earth.
The year (...)‘Facing the Darkest Hour’: Hong Kong’s Protest Movement in Crisis As the Chinese government’s grip tightens, protesters are debating how and why to keep fighting, or whether resistance is even possible. Protesters have deleted their social media accounts, afraid that their messages could be used against them under China’s new national security laws. Young (...)
Living as a Virus in Modi’s India From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how “the virus” became “the Muslim virus” in less than a week.
On Thursday, March 19, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his first national address amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, in which, elegantly eschewing any talk of the government’s (...)US: Donald Trump’s Antifa Bogeyman Has a Long, Proud History of Fighting Fascists Donald Trump has threatened to ban “Antifa” as a terrorist organization. But you can’t ban a set of ideas. As long as we face the threat of a violent, authoritarian right, anti-fascism will remain an essential force.
When the President of the United States says that he’ll be designating Antifa as (...)USA: It’s Imperative That Unions Fight for All Workers” Unions must play a central role in the fight against police brutality. We spoke with a rank-and-file bus driver in Minneapolis who is organizing his coworkers to refuse to assist police in transporting protesters — because, he says, “an injury to one is an injury to all.”
The murder of George (...)United States & the murder of George Floyd: Socialists must fight to defund the police The murder of George Floyd by police has sparked protest and outrage across the country. Emma Caterine writes how socialists can connect the movement against racist police violence to a broad socialist program through the struggle to defund the police.
Nearly six years ago in Staten Island, (...)United States: In Honor of George Floyd – Thoughts in the Aftermath of the Brooklyn Protest A few scattered, partial thoughts on tonight’s rally in Brooklyn and the overall political moment….
1. The turn out was incredible, easily around 10,000 people on less than 24 hours notice. Very multi-racial, mostly young and lots of people with homemade signs and unaffiliated to any kind of (...)
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