American support for the movements of Taiwan and Hong Kong will only go as far as they are useful for American empire.
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A janitor reflects on his arrest in the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
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Giving in to the collision of nationalisms and allowing global superpowers to weaponize our fate will only pave the way for more repression.
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.
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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.
