Lausan
@lausanhk.bsky.social
Radical left perspectives from Hong Kong, Asia, and its diasporas www.lausancollective.com
Last September, Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong workers went on strike to protest the company’s dismissal of a driver and union member. Their victory shows that labor action is still possible in post-NSL Hong Kong. Read our translation of a report on the strike: lausancollective.com/2026/swire-w...
Swire Coca-Cola workers' strike a success - Lausan
Swire workers' one-day strike achieves demands and shows labor action still possible.
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Our new piece on hunger strikes here. UK Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike has crossed the one-month mark and lives hang in the balance. Read about the revolutionary history and potential of hunger strikes, and of the crucial need for outside support. workshops4gaza.substack.com/p/on-hunger-...
On Hunger Strikes
We originally wrote and shared this piece on hunger strikes during the summer of 2025 on a different platform.
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"The initiator of an online petition calling for accountability for the fire was arrested for 'incitement.' It is quite obvious that 'national safety' does not include fire safety in the eyes of the government’s security agents." lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
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"What we have documented here is just the tip of the iceberg. This goes to show that the mutual aid networks and practices that were part of everyday life six years ago still remain, and it will always be Hongkongers who protect one another."
Lausan@lausanhk.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe tragic fire in Tai Po has deeper roots: Hong Kong's market-driven, capitalist system that promotes predatory business interests over working people's safety. Read our latest on how Hongkongers are supporting each other through mass mutual aid: lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
"The initiator of an online petition calling for accountability for the fire was arrested for 'incitement.' It is quite obvious that 'national safety' does not include fire safety in the eyes of the government’s security agents." lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
lausancollective.com
#OtD 30 Nov 1999 the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted by big protests as people blockaded streets to prevent it taking place. Police attacked violently, and rioting broke out downtown hitting headlines and sparking a global anti-capitalist movt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...
The tragic fire in Tai Po has deeper roots: Hong Kong's market-driven, capitalist system that promotes predatory business interests over working people's safety. Read our latest on how Hongkongers are supporting each other through mass mutual aid: lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
lausancollective.com
The tragic fire in Tai Po has deeper roots: Hong Kong's market-driven, capitalist system that promotes predatory business interests over working people's safety. Read our latest on how Hongkongers are supporting each other through mass mutual aid: lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...
Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
lausancollective.com
Important read at a time that many in Taiwan have, unfortunately, failed to stand in solidarity with Palestinians
Lausan@lausanhk.bsky.social · 12mo agoRead this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
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"Narratives that once stirred my solidarity now compel my accountability, because I have since learned how stories of righteousness can be used to rationalize dispossession."
Lausan@lausanhk.bsky.social · 12mo agoRead this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
lausancollective.com
Check out this new platform launched by Chinese international graduate workers, which includes resources from Chinese diaspora workers’ participating in contract bargaining and strikes as well as travel security tips for international workers: grad-unions.say.vc
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Raimo Kangasniemi@rk70534.bsky.social · last yr."The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority announced on Tuesday evening that fixed-line communication&internet services have been cut off again in central&southern #Gaza, due to a new outage on one of the main routes caused by the ongoing Israeli aggression..." english.palinfo.com/news/2025/06...
There's also a simmering unemployment crisis in China, youth unemployment most acutely, part and parcel of capitalist world-systemic pressures. The latest figure is 16.9% urban youth unemployment (!!), with rural youth likely higher. Read more here: heatwavemag.info/blog/chuang-...
TRUMP II: Trade War Gone Global
In this first contribution to Heatwave, Chuang responds to questions about the global impacts of the latest rounds of American tariffs. The full overview of this inquiry, with responses from comrades ...
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Tomorrow. Come learn from a leading historian of Kashmir, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal
Workshops4Gaza@workshops4gaza.bsky.social · last yr.‼️We are excited to announce that Hafsa Kanjwal will teach a workshop, KASHMIR'S FREEDOM STRUGGLE on June 12th. Come learn from the author of COLONIZING KASHMIR: STATE-BUILDING UNDER INDIAN OCCUPATION. To sign up, donate to the Sameer Project and sign up below: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/kas...
Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
How China is helping to facilitate Israel's illegal settlements - Lausan
China's proclamations of support for Palestine cover up its complicity in Israeli settlement building
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Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
How China is helping to facilitate Israel's illegal settlements - Lausan
China's proclamations of support for Palestine cover up its complicity in Israeli settlement building
lausancollective.com
Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter? "After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong - Lausan
Hongkongers' relationship to the June 4 vigil and the memory of Tiananmen Square have rapidly evolved in the past decade. We speak with a Hong Kong leftist about this change.
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“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
Repressing the rebel workers of Tiananmen Square - Lausan
Worker radicalism has always unsettled the authority of one-party rule, from the Cultural Revolution through to Tiananmen
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"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
When communists crushed the international workers' movement - Lausan
It is only by placing the massacre at Tiananmen in its true context that we can begin to untangle the underlying changes in the nature of the working class.
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"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
Reform or revolution: The strengths and setbacks of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement - Lausan
Despite its temporary failure, the magnificent 1989 pro-democracy movement has immense historical significance.
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"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
Against US imperialism's cooptation of Tiananmen - Lausan
We must continue to challenge the use of social movements in China to reinforce the dangerous fiction that the key global struggle today is one between a Western democratic political order against the...
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"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
Against US imperialism's cooptation of Tiananmen - Lausan
We must continue to challenge the use of social movements in China to reinforce the dangerous fiction that the key global struggle today is one between a Western democratic political order against the...
lausancollective.com
"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
Reform or revolution: The strengths and setbacks of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement - Lausan
Despite its temporary failure, the magnificent 1989 pro-democracy movement has immense historical significance.
lausancollective.com
"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
When communists crushed the international workers' movement - Lausan
It is only by placing the massacre at Tiananmen in its true context that we can begin to untangle the underlying changes in the nature of the working class.
lausancollective.com
“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
Repressing the rebel workers of Tiananmen Square - Lausan
Worker radicalism has always unsettled the authority of one-party rule, from the Cultural Revolution through to Tiananmen
lausancollective.com
Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter? "After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong - Lausan
Hongkongers' relationship to the June 4 vigil and the memory of Tiananmen Square have rapidly evolved in the past decade. We speak with a Hong Kong leftist about this change.
lausancollective.com
Four years ago I wrote a piece about Tiananmen and the international workers movement for @lausanhk.bsky.social. Three years ago I expanded it into a pair of episodes for It Could Happen Here. Now they return in the hands of a New Mia with a new name and a new gender Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social · last yr.New It Could Happen Here @miawong.bsky.social revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
