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The largest student demonstrations and occupations in Hong Kong’s history is currently unfurling – what is increasingly being called the “Umbrella Revolution” in reference to the sea of umbrellas being used as cover against both pepper-spraying riot police and the rays of the sun (the latter a (…)
Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) strongly condemns the use of excessive force by the Hong Kong police for the last few days against peaceful protesters who are standing up to demand for democracy.
The people of Hong Kong have been protested in massive numbers since the student launched class (…)
Press Release
30 September 2014
HKCTU calls international union movement to support Hong Kong people’s protest for genuine universal suffrage
19 trade unions’ support are pouring in till now
HKCTU has called an emergency strike on 29 September, to protest against the Hong Kong (…)
The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) - the only independent union in China - has called for workers to strike in support of the democracy movement as mass civil disobedience actions come under heavy police attack. The Swire Beverages (Coca-Cola) union and the HKCTU unions of (…)
Dear friends,
Asia Monitor Resource Centre supports Hong Kong civil society’s struggle for genuine universal suffrage and we stand by their demands. We strongly condemn the use of excessive violence by the police on the peaceful protesters on September 28, 2014.
The Hong Kong Confederation (…)
Western media outlets have described Hong Kong’s accelerated wave of unrest as predominantly led by students. It has a much wider base than that. Months of steady canvassing and campaigning on the streets, and a promotion of emotive symbolism over violence, have garnered enormous sympathy for (…)
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) strongly condemns the police for their violent attack on unarmed students and people. We strongly condemn the government for suppressing the freedom of speech and the freedom of assembly in Hong Kong. HKCTU calls for all workers in Hong Kong to (…)
The protest movement in Hong Kong is continuing to grow as thousands of protesters remain on the streets despite being met with police violence. This afternoon as police sought to clear the area outside the government headquarters following last night’s occupation, protesters moved onto the (…)
Today, the 24th September 2014, 25 Hong Kong social groups and unions, including the Confederation of Trade Unions, held a press conference to release its statement of support for universal suffrage and economic betterment, in the midst of a one week long student class boycott. The statement (…)
Today Hong Kong university students marked the beginning of their week long class boycott for democracy by holding a large rally organised at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The students are boycotting classes this week in protest against the decision made by Chinese Communist Party at the (…)
Hong Kong is one of the most unequal developed economies in the world. Now the mainland government wants to keep a tight grip on the territory’s political system too.
Three years after Occupy Wall Street burst on the scene in downtown Manhattan, the most vibrant Occupy-style movement is no (…)
Left21 strongly condemns the framework approved by the NPC for the election of the Chief Executive in 2017
Hong Kong group Left21 has strongly condemned the framework approved by the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee for the election of the Chief Executive in 2017 for its (…)
The umbrella is a perfect icon for Hong Kong’s uprising: inclusive, aloof, a bit Anglophone and pragmatically defiant of the elements (and according to cinematic lore, readily convertible to a lethal kung fu weapon). It embodies the central plea of the protesters amassed in “Democracy Square”: a (…)
China Will Let Hong Kongers Vote for Their Next Leader — But Only If a Pro-Beijing Committee Selects the Candidates
For pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, China’s promise to let the people have a say in the election of the city’s next top leader is looking rather hollow.
The standing (…)
Official statement of Occupy Central with Love and Peace in response to the decision of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee on Hong Kong’s constitutional reform .
We express our deepest regret over today’s decision of the NPC Standing Committee to set an extremely narrow (…)
Sue Sparks reports on the mass protests in Hong Kong earlier this week.
July 1st in Hong Kong is Handover Day, the anniversary of the handing back of Hong Kong by the British to China in 1997. It is a public holiday, marked by official celebrations, but also by a demonstration. In some years (…)
On Tuesday, more than half a million people in Hong Kong took part in one of the biggest pro-democracy marches in the city’s history.
“This was not an illegal assembly; it was a peaceful and legitimate protest under international law. The police action was hasty and unnecessary and sets a (…)
The Bethune House shelter houses just a few more women than its twenty or so adjacent bunk beds can accommodate. These women came to Hong Kong as domestic workers from neighboring Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia and the Philippines, because being a factory worker, a sari-sari (…)
Amnesty International have accused the “Big Four” international accounting firms of acting in “bad faith” after they took out newspaper adverts in Hong Kong saying they were “opposed” to the former British colony’s pro-democracy movement.
The human rights group joined sharp criticism of the (…)
Hundreds of Thousands of Hong Kongers Are Defying China and Demanding the Right to Nominate Their Next Leader
About 700,000 Hong Kong citizens have voted so far in an unofficial referendum hosted by civic group Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) on democratic electoral reform, earning (…)
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