The pandemic has clarified how 'civil society' is narrated by statist interests, liberal reformists, and corporate elites to the detriment of precarious classes
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Centering anti-capitalist demands has proven to be challenging in Hong Kong's movements. The unionization wave has been tackling this head-on.
While slurs like “Chinazi” and “Xitler” make for vulgar comparisons, there has been increased attention to how some Chinese intellectuals have demonstrated a strong interest in the work of Nazi thinkers
The truth is we have allowed Trumpism to be normalized as a mere difference of opinion and that alone is an indictment of the movement as a whole.
A labor organizer's letter to the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) from prison
Now is the time to organize the broader Chinese community around progressive values and to build lasting solidarity between them and other marginalized communities of color.
China's technology-assisted forms of policing produce a racialized relationship of state and settler domination over Uyghur, Kazakh, indigenous, and ethnic minority lives.
China's communist road to capitalism has led to serious confusion for the left. Clarifying this issue is critical for anti-capitalist practice.
'Liberate Hong Kong, The Revolution of Our Times' is not just any chant; it is an idea rooted in a decolonial politics.
Liberal reforms only ended up entrenching the institutional power of political dynasties without meaningfully improving the lives of the most oppressed.
Ceding ground to the binary logics of the Cold War redux will only tighten the grip of empire.
Rejecting both Beijing and Washington is the bare minimum we can do to hold accountable all enablers of US imperialism abroad, especially the Chinese state.
