The US has chosen to prioritize its own interest over those of Hong Kong activists.
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American support for the movements of Taiwan and Hong Kong will only go as far as they are useful for American empire.
A janitor reflects on his arrest in the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
Ceding ground to the binary logics of the Cold War redux will only tighten the grip of empire.
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 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.
