The following is the text of a leaflet issued by Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) for the coming days of mass protests: Reject fake compromise! Beware of emergency laws! Spreading the revolution to China is essential for success! Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced her amendments to the extradition law, which triggered […]
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André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil is a country that is going backwards in all respects. Seven months after his inauguration, what we see is poverty, unemployment, the withdrawal of social rights, attacks on democratic freedoms, authoritarianism, submission to imperialism and a permanent offensive against […]
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Luo Ding is a contributor to chinaworker.info. While Hong Kong has been convulsed by the biggest mass protests in its history, large demonstrations against construction of a polluting waste incinerator plant have rocked Wuhan, central China. A week of large street protests began in Yangluo, an outer sub-district of Wuhan, on June 28, when around […]
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Dikang is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). After Legco is stormed government prepares to launch massive counter-offensive On July 1, the 22nd anniversary of the handover and a traditional day of mass anti-government protest, Hong Kong’s mass struggle against the unelected government’s extradition law entered a new phase. For almost a […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Incredible movement in Hong Kong. Sunday, June 16’s demo was two million, outnumbering last Sunday’s one million, which opened the floodgates. This means more than 1 in 4 of Hong Kong’s population (7.5m) joined the march. A statement on behalf of the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who may […]
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Dikang is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). Protests escalate as government refuses to bend over extradition law One million marchers on June 9 vented their anger and defiance against the government’s proposed amendments to the extradition law. It was the biggest demonstration in Hong Kong since the handover to Chinese rule, […]
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Among the world’s youth there is an ever-growing feeling that they have inherited a doomed planet. The youth strike for climate justice on May 24 saw protests in 1,880 cities in 133 countries with 1.5 million marching. March 15 was the biggest so far this year with 2,380 demos in over 135 countries and 1.8 […]
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Dikang is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). 130,000 march on April 28 – now we need a one-day political strike! The mass turnout of 130,000 people on Sunday April 28 against the government’s repressive agenda has turned Hong Kong’s political situation around. This was the biggest demonstration since the 2014 Umbrella […]
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Clare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The gilets jaunes revolt in France, now in its fourth month, not only threatens the survival of Emmanuel Macron, his government and his party. It has inspired movements of discontented workers and young people far beyond its borders. It has also helped widen […]
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Leïla Messaoudi is a member of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France). The “yellow vest” movement in France has involved hundreds of thousands of people in demonstrations, blockades of roundabouts, main roads and toll booths all around the country, in big cities and in the countryside. Begun in mid-November, it has not even stopped during the […]
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