Filipino workers experience a double precarity under neoliberal austerity and the lingering effects of US militarism at home, while facing abuse as cheap export labor in Hong Kong.
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When others are in crisis, have we ever invested time and effort to understand their struggles, and extend our solidarity and support?
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.
The recent override of Hong Kong legal and political institutions in pushing for national security laws shows precisely how vulnerable the Basic Law has always been to manipulation by elite interests.
How can we connect the struggles of people with different abilities and migrant domestic workers?
Two pandemics, four employers, two decades of fierce commitment to organizing migrant workers in Hong Kong.
The recent rediscovery of organized labor may be serendipitous, but transforming this pivot into sustained commitment to worker organizing requires careful cultivation in the long run.
Lack of ideological debate allows existing conservative structures to seep into the deepest core of the movement.
The pandemic has laid bare the contradictions of the global system and dispelled its white supremacist fantasies.
Migrant workers live and work under increasingly unforgiving conditions.
Just as the public health crisis intensifies, the invisible labour of care risks further erasure.
Born in an authoritarian country, you can still become an anti-establishment punk.