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Hong Kong : Long queues as 229,000 Hongkongers vote on first day of democrats’ primaries More than 228,983 Hongkongers have cast their votes in the democratic camp’s primary election, according to organisers, despite government warnings over its legitimacy. The first day of the citywide primaries on Saturday recorded 137,806 voters by 6 pm, with long queues forming outside multiple (...)
Burma: The Day a Student Leader, Salai Tin Maung Oo, was Hanged for Anti-Junta Activism Yangon — On this day in 1976, 25-year-old student leader Salai Tin Maung Oo, a strong voice of dissent against the military regime led by dictator General Ne Win, was hanged in Insein Prison.
The ethnic Chin zoological student at the University of Yangon (then Rangoon) participated in student (...)Hong Kong elections: 229,000 residents cast ballots in opposition camp primary for Legislative Council elections, organisers say The number, which represents 5.5 per cent of registered voters, far exceeds overall target of 170,000 people. Primary held to whittle down candidates for the opposition camp’s Legco drive had been mired in uncertainty after government warning.
Nearly 229,000 Hongkongers voted on the first day (...)Pandemic (Britain): The Pro-Privatization Shock Therapy of the UK’s Covid Response London—“There are plenty of things people will say we got wrong,” Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, said of the nation’s coronavirus response in a recent speech. In one of the world’s worst affected countries, much of the focus has been on government mismanagement. Johnson’s inexperienced (...)
Hong Kong civil servants not allowed to join anti-government protests under new proposals, city minister warns Patrick Nip speaks on latest plans for employees which also require them to swear allegiance in writing and uphold Basic Law. Proposed rules come nearly a year after government workers part of mass protest in support of civil unrest.
Hong Kong’s civil servants will not be allowed to join (...)Hong Kong police raid office of pro-democracy camp primary election co-organisers PORI Hong Kong police have raided the Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) office in Wong Chuk Hang. The polling organisation is a co-organiser of this weekend’s primary legislative election for the pro-democracy camp.
Officers entered the premises on Friday 10 evening, according to Stand News. (...)The Fortress World Is Our World We were already on the way to variations of Fortress World before COVID-19: right-wing, authoritarian/fascist regimes have been able to capture political power riding on the immiseration, anxieties, and frustration resulting from global capitalism and corporate globalization, while progressive (...)
Covid-19: The Virus in Latin America CLEONICE GONÇALVES WAS one of the first in Latin America to die from the coronavirus pandemic.
Gonçalves was a 63-year-old domestic worker in Leblon, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her employer was a wealthy woman who had recently returned from a vacation in (...)Authoritarianism & Lockdown Time in Occupied Kashmir and India PANDEMICS GENERATE THEIR own vocabularies, and the “novel coronavirus” is no exception. In the United States the vocabulary of COVID-19 of “sheltering-in-place” and “lockdowns” resonates with Cold War era anxieties about nuclear war and more recent fears about gun violence.
In India the context (...)US: Anti-Carceral Feminism THE DEMAND THAT no one be caged is an old one. Decades before the U.S. prison population hit two million and the concept of “mass incarceration” entered the public lexicon, anti-racist feminist organizers called for the end of criminalization and confinement.
In the new book All Our Trials: (...)Russia: Half-Life of a Nuclear Disaster ON APRIL 26, 1986, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, scattering highly radioactive materials into the surroundings. As the fire ignited by the explosion in the reactor core burned, more radioactive effluent was expelled and swept by the winds from the (...)
US: Unions Are Essential for Eliminating Racism A new study finds that unions don’t just increase wages and benefits for workers on the job — union membership is also linked to diminished racist attitudes among white workers. If we want to defeat racism, building strong, democratic unions is essential.
In New Orleans in the years leading up (...)Inquisition Mode Mexico city, 6 July 1946. Victor Serge had a year to live. He had spent the morning, as he sometimes did, with Trotsky’s widow, Natalia Sedova. They had been writing a joint memoir of Trotsky; in it Natalia recalls her husband pacing up and down in his study at Coyoacán, engaged in heated (...)
UK: Benjamin Zephaniah: ’Coppers were standing on my back and I thought: OK, I’m going to die here.’ The poet and novelist has had a turbulent lockdown, with two relatives lost to Covid-19 and George Floyd’s death bringing back memories of his cousin, Mikey Powell, who was killed by the police in 2003
It is 42 years since Benjamin Zephaniah wrote the poem Dis Policeman Keeps on Kicking Me To (...)Refusing to wear face masks should be as taboo as drunk driving, UK science body chief says (CNN)Refusing to wear a face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic should be as socially unacceptable as drunk-driving, or driving without using a seat belt, the president of the UK’s Royal Society said Tuesday.
Venki Ramakrishnan called for everyone to wear a face covering in public — particularly (...)Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today.
Four recent polls — including one released this week by Civis (...)Philippines – Statement (Mindanao): Anti-Terrorism Act cannot win against terrorism! • Anti-Terrorism Act cannot win against terrorism!
• Fight for A Democratic, Ecological and Peoples’-Centered Philippines!
It was either to let it lapse into law or sign. Duterte preferred to sign it last 3 July 2020. To veto is not his option.
The passage of the ATA or Anti-Terrorism Act of (...)Smile in Solidarity: Singaporeans’ call for political freedom An interview with Jolovan Wham on Singaporeans’ latest push back against state retaliation.
With the country’s elections slated to take place next month, Singapore is technically a democracy. Yet for decades, the country has been ruled by the conversative party, the People’s Action Party, who not (...)Coronavirus measures give Bangladeshi workers for global clothing chains a stark choice: disease or starvation Over the past three decades, global inequality has reached a critical level. The world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%. Multinational fashion companies have secured billions of dollars by moving production locations abroad and using supply chains in developing countries including (...)
The role of labour activism in Vietnam’s coronavirus success In February, garment workers at Praegear Vietnam launched a strike to demand the factory implement measures to protect workers against the coronavirus. In response, local union officials organised training and talks by medical experts, and the company introduced such things as free masks, (...)
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