China’s rulers have extended their repressive grip over Hong Kong after the territories’ Legislative Council adopted a stringent new national security bill, Article 23, March 19. A previous attempt to pass the bill was scrapped after half a million people…
In an effort to block a June 4 commemoration of those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park was filled with over 200 booths that weekend, part of a “Hometown Market Carnival.” That event was organized…
Despite facing over 7,000 police, ostensibly mobilized to block “illegal assemblies,” throngs of people gathered outside barricaded Victoria Park in Hong Kong June 4. They were honoring hundreds killed 32 years ago when Beijing brutally crushed mass protests for political…
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a Hong Kong courthouse March 1 holding banners and shouting slogans in defiance of Beijing’s tightening crackdown on political space for working people. Forty-seven prominent protest leaders and opposition politicians faced charges filed under draconian…
In an attack on working people and youth fighting for political rights in Hong Kong, 1,000 police carried out a series of predawn raids Jan. 6 and arrested 53 people, claiming they were plotting to subvert the city’s government. This…
Despite a severe crackdown by 6,000 police, justified by authorities using harsh COVID-19 restrictions, thousands of protesters fighting for political rights and against control from Beijing took to the streets in Hong Kong Oct. 1. The date is celebrated as…
Defying a ban by Hong Kong authorities thousands joined the biggest demonstration in the city in many months, on the July 1 anniversary of the end of British colonial rule and the territory’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. They…
Thousands poured into Victoria Park in Hong Kong June 4 in an annual event to honor those who gave their lives fighting for political rights in 1989 in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. They cast aside metal barriers set up by the…
Undeterred by police assaults and threats from bosses, workers and other fighters for political rights have continued to mount protests against the Chinese rulers’ deepening grip over their lives in the supposedly semi-autonomous territory of Hong Kong. Thousands took to…
Thousands took to the streets May 24 to protest against the Chinese rulers’ decision to impose a repressive “national security” law over political activity in the territory. Beijing hopes to take advantage of the crackdown on protests by Hong Kong…
