Opposing Chinese American conservatism
An interview with Kate Zen about organizing against a Chinese-led pro-NYPD rally
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We at Lausan stand in unwavering solidarity with the people of Kashmir, who have been fighting militarized Indian occupation for decades and for their rights to self-determination and autonomy as a people to be respected and observed.
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.
An organizer of the Sanitation Workers' Union discusses the invisibility of the working class in the movement and challenges in building collective power.
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An interview with a Hong Kong leftist organizer on how to build power despite antagonisms with the mainstream movement and the right.
As global attention shifted elsewhere, one might have assumed that the movement had died a natural death. It did not. It was at that point that the movement branched off in a new direction, with activists beginning to transition towards a nascent labor movement.
Thousands of Thai protesters gathered around the iconic Democracy Monument in Bangkok to call for the dissolution of their government.
Hong Kong’s new era of terror
The criminalization of dissent in Hong Kong takes place within a global wave of national militarization and securitization.
The coronavirus
In China, the emergence of mutual aid groups in response to the pandemic brings new possibilities, amidst a narrowing space for public participation.
Can we advocate an agriculture that rejects the 'normal' that creates the conditions for pandemics, patriarchy and hegemony to emerge?
Beijing’s new national security laws and the future of Hong Kong
The Basic Law was never designed to stand up to Beijing.
Abolish the police
On the one-year anniversary of the Yuen Long attacks, revisit our writing and translating on police abolition.
Records show the State Department's collaboration with Hong Kong police dates back more than a decade.
Asian leftists challenging global racial capitalism in the time of COVID-19
A joint solidarity statement on global anti-Blackness and racism against African migrants in China during COVID-19
The Hong Kong Movement
Taiwan and Hong Kong are often thought of as projections of each others' past or future. How can we move beyond this binary framing to open a path for broader transnational political exchange?
The social chaos of state failure during pandemic has created an apt cover for governments to begin consolidating their own power.
The momentum for liberation is not lost; it simply picks up at different speeds in different places, at different times.
The offer of a potential escape route to BNO holders is a step in the right direction; but without a commitment to granting asylum to Hongkongers, it may fail to reach those most in need of protection.
Beijing is but one of the most visible causes of Hong Kong’s social ills. The "invisible hand" of the free market lies at the root.
Lack of ideological debate allows existing conservative structures to seep into the deepest core of the movement.
