Series: Dispatches from HKCTU
An archival translation series of meditations on repression and labor organizing by HKCTU members
Most recent
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.
We interviewed the App Drivers & Couriers Union on the transnational nature of exploitation in the gig economy, and our possibilities for solidarity.
JN·
Social Contagion is must-read analysis of the political economy of capitalist plagues, proletarian experience of mass lockdown, and China's coming state.
Toward global Indigenous struggle
Revisit our writing on the different ways Indigenous people have survived and struggled against capital and settler colonialism across the world
An interview with Alice Poon, author of 'Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong.'
Fighting anti-Asian violence cannot include apologism for the Chinese state
The movement against anti-Asian violence must not become yet another bargaining chip between two repressive super powers.
Internationalism from below
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.
The case for a Hong Kong left internationalism in the wake of the pandemic and Black liberation movement
The clash of nationalisms
In the latest nationalist flare up, President Trump imposed new visa restrictions on STEM graduate students and scholars from China.
The US’s restriction of visas for Chinese journalists is a blow to press freedom yet its fallout has been largely overlooked in the mainstream media.
Why China is capitalist
Toward an anti-nationalist anti-imperialism
The new union movement
洛石·
Since the British colonial era, the Hong Kong government's apathetic approach to social welfare has undermined workers' rights.
A labor organizer's letter to the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) from prison
Confronting the new ‘big platform’—Part 1
On the limits of decentralization, xenophobic violence, and the internal conflict of the Hong Kong movement
The coronavirus
The movements of the novel coronavirus are mimicking the pathways of the 21st-century global market.
In China, the emergence of mutual aid groups in response to the pandemic brings new possibilities, amidst a narrowing space for public participation.
