That Wechat is overlooked in Trump's TikTok debacle because it is much less known to the West obscures a far more serious set of issues in a potential ban.
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Grassroots media play a crucial role in documenting the advent of capitalism in China and the increasing mobilizations against government power by the working class.
Hongkongers have not only been crushed by dehumanizing labor exploitation and severe inequality as a result of the last few decades of neoliberal policies, they are also being oppressed by militarized law enforcement, surveillance, and an increasingly unaccountable carceral system.
The campaign against abuse and neglect at an infamous immigration detention facility reveals migrant and sex workers' plight in Hong Kong.
Ex-detainees of the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Center discuss unexplained arrests, mental and physical abuse, and solitary confinement.
With the national security laws now in place, Demosisto—long seen as the movement’s primary advocate for international ‘solidarity’—has disbanded, revealing the limits of the movement’s “international line” as we know it.
Hongkongers empathize with the struggle against policing, but continue to disavow the existence of racism in Hong Kong.
ICE announced that international students will not be permitted to remain in the US if all their classes in the fall are online, affecting over 1 million international students.
Xi’s rise to power spelled the end of Chinese liberalization and marked the beginning of a brutal crackdown on Chinese activists.
The national security laws not only criminalize dissent of all kinds but also marks the premature end of Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy and the One Country, Two Systems' agreement it had in place.
With Sinophobia rising in the west, mainland Chinese international students are being denied their political agency and are not given the space or respect to offer their perspectives.
One failure will not break the union and general strike movement. We will seize every opportunity available to resist.
