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South Korea’s Tollgate Workers’ Struggle: A Guiding Star for the Next Battle

As the valiant fight by South Korean tollgate workers comes to a close, a worker who joined solidarity efforts from day one reflects on the struggle’s peaks, limits, and lessons for the road ahead.

Yong Deok Lee

February 25, 2020

Coronavirus Takes Toll on China’s Poor

Living under a largely privatized health care system, a repressive regime, and rampant inequalities, China’s workers, peasants, and popular classes are now facing both the coronavirus and state repression.

Philippe Alcoy

February 7, 2020

Burning Its Own Backyard: Climate Deniers in the Australian Government

While Australia burns, killing more than one billion animals and ravaging the landscape, the Australian government is denying the link between the bushfires and climate change.

Carmin Maffea

January 13, 2020

General Strike Expected to Bring a Fifth of India’s Population into the Streets

On Wednesday, Jan 8, 250 million people are estimated to go on strike in a Nationwide General Strike in India. This comes on the heels of a month-long protests against the current political regime that have drawn hundreds of thousands to the streets.

Sou Mi

January 7, 2020

Mass Protests Erupt in India over Discriminatory Citizenship Law

Last week, the Narendra Modi-led government of India passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act which will provide non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan with a path to citizenship while leaving millions of undocumented Muslims vulnerable. The Act is openly discriminatory and sets a dangerous precedent for religion-based citizenship in the country.

Sou Mi

December 18, 2019

“Hongkongers, Avenge!”: Police Violence Sets off Wave of New Clashes with Hong Kong Protesters

While Mainland China celebrated “Single’s Day,” which is the country’s equivalent of “Black Friday” and the largest online shopping event in China, Hong Kongers were in the streets fighting for basic democratic rights.

Sonja Krieger

November 12, 2019

Shattered Illusions: South Korea After the Fall of President Park Geun-Hye

Yeon Hong is a labor activist and member of the Militants for Workers’ Liberation (NoHeTu) based in Seoul, South Korea. This article was originally presented at the event, “Class Struggle in South Korea,” which took place on November 5 in New York City.

Yeon Hong

November 9, 2019

India Plans to Make 1.9 Million People Stateless

Nestled in the north-eastern region of India, sharing its southern border with Bangladesh, Assam has long been home to immigrants. But since August 31, 2019, with the publication of the National Register of Citizens, 1.9 million people risk being stripped of their citizenship and rendered stateless.

Sou Mi

September 8, 2019

The Hong Kong Protests: A Democratic Struggle and Its Limitations

The anti-government movement in Hong Kong has been sustained and forceful. While limited by the confines of liberal democracy, the protests momentarily prevented an authoritarian measure designed to curtail civil rights in the region.

Sonja Krieger

August 22, 2019