Robert Connell provides a first-hand look at the devastating impacts of China's Belt and Road on Indigenous Maroons in Jamaica.
Deep Dive
"I wonder if TZ is suggesting that the foundation to this abolition is a daily, lifelong refusal to apologize."
The CCP’s sudden reversal from zero-COVID is an adjustment toward a different logic of state capitalist accumulation in response to market trends.
I attended the 6.12 rally in London to gain a critical perspective on the current mainstream political discourse on Hong Kong’s struggle.
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We must contend with more than one state nationalism to see how they all serve the demands of global capital
We can rely neither on foreign interventions nor local activists and politicians to make it their life’s work to wage Hong Kong’s struggle on Hongkongers’ behalf.
Instead of ceding agency to Western governments, Hongkongers must seek to garner bargaining power through self-empowerment.
Honouring the memory of 2019 requires us to critically assess where our imagining of how the struggle could develop fell short.
Just as we should not pathologize Covid-19 as a virus of “Oriental” culture, neither should we entertain fantasies of an exceptionally dominant China.
Binaries of “good state capitalism/bad market capitalism” and “undemocratic East/democratic West” hinder radical political imaginaries.
Outsourcing China’s soy production to South America obfuscates its responsibility for widespread deforestation, even as it hopes to promote 'ecological civilization' within its own borders.
Examining the legacies and afterlives of the Baodiao Movement is an important task for activists in the aftermath of the 2019 protests.
