While undoubtedly another crushing setback, the redrawn fronts of struggle may yet unearth novel forms of resistance.
labor organizing
Centering anti-capitalist demands has proven to be challenging in Hong Kong's movements. The unionization wave has been tackling this head-on.
A labor organizer's letter to the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) from prison
As global attention shifted elsewhere, one might have assumed that the movement had died a natural death. It did not.
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.
Xi’s rise to power spelled the end of Chinese liberalization and marked the beginning of a brutal crackdown on Chinese activists.
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Since the British colonial era, the Hong Kong government's apathetic approach to social welfare has undermined workers' rights.
On International Domestic Workers Day, revisit our translating and writing on care work, feminized labor, and solidarity with migrant domestic workers.
The recent rediscovery of organized labor may be serendipitous, but transforming this pivot into sustained commitment to worker organizing requires careful cultivation in the long run.