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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 (...)United States: Racist Police Murder of George Floyd Leads to National Rebellion The video recording of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, a black man strangled to death by a white police officer who kneeled on his throat for nine minutes until he was dead, sparked anger and outrage and has led to a full-scale national rebellion against police racism and (...)
United States: Fire this Time in Minneapolis – “My son tells me...” When my son, who’s 19, called from Minneapolis on Saturday night, I was watching the livestream of protesters defying curfew there for the second night in a row, and listening to young people dry heave, like my students in Colombia, from the tear gas. Because he has first-aid training for (...)
On Republic Day, violence against India’s indigenous continues While India observed Republic Day, people at various places read out the Preamble to the Constitution and unfurled the National Flag, the adivasi people of Niyamgiri were reminded once again that mining corporations like Vedanta are the real owners of the country.
The tyranny of the Manubadi (...)India: the farmers’ Long March in Maharashtra It was an incredible sight – 40,000 poor farmers and landless labourers walking over 200 kilometres, from Nashik to Mumbai. They captured the city’s imagination and left it with an enduring memory. They outsmarted far more powerful adversaries. They made the deaf hear and the blind see.
This (...)
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