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24/01/2024

Call for submissions! Write personal essays or creative non-fiction exploring diverse perspectives & hidden histories about science fiction. Open to writers deeply rooted in the peripheries. ✨

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24/01/2024

Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that Palestine's struggle for self-determination has served as an inspiration for the struggle for democracy in Egypt

16/12/2023

As COP28 closed recently to disappointment from climate activists, we spoke with Hong Kong's Climate Resiliency Concern Group on what climate justice means for workers and marginalized people in Hong Kong and the world.

An interview with Hong Kong climate justice group, Community Climate Resilience Concern Group.

09/12/2023

Read this statement from Chinese Feminism Toronto in solidarity with Palestinian struggle:

A statement from Chinese feminists in Toronto in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

30/11/2023

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He was the only person ever to be White House national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He also became the target of relentless critics.

26/11/2023

Join , , , Week: November 29 – December 5, 2023 https://publishersforpalestine.org/2023/11/20/join-readpalestine-week-november-29-december-5-2023/

04/11/2023

Activists from HK Anti-War Mobilisation, first formed to oppose Russia’s war in Ukraine, rallied at Israel’s Hong Kong embassy to demand a ceasefire and an end to US support. We applaud their brave and principled solidarity despite intense political repression in Hong Kong today.

02/11/2023

We condemn the President of Hang Seng University Simon Ho Shun-man, who unilaterally cancelled an event sponsored by the ethnic minority student society Em-Power HSUHK with speaker Prof. James Frankel (CUHK) on the crisis in Gaza, reportedly under pressure from local Zionists.

31/10/2023

「身在美國、英國和加拿大，作為海外港人與藏人，我們極力譴責以色列政權以種族隔離、定居殖民等政策佔領巴勒斯坦，並支持巴勒斯坦人的解放運動。我們呼籲美國、英國和加拿大政府終止對以色列的軍事支援。」

閱讀完整聲明：https://lausancollective.com/2023/overseas-hongkongers-tibetans-solidarity-palestine-chinese/

20/10/2023

"As overseas Hong Kongers and Tibetans based in the US, UK, and Canada, we wholly condemn the Israeli apartheid state’s settler-colonial occupation of Palestine and support Palestinian liberation."

Read the full statement below:

A statement from diasporic Tibetan and Hongkongers in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

11/10/2023

Unyielding support for Palestinians’ right to self-defense doesn't mean political support for every faction—and criticism of Hamas is inadequate without acknowledging Israel has long financed it in order to delegitimize Palestinian self-determination https://archive.ph/H8LSL (1/2)

07/10/2023

We unequivocally support the Palestinian people's right to struggle for self-determination and decolonization.

27/07/2023

Nongguan (農管) are a new police force in China's countryside that oversees forced demolitions, crop destruction, and park land conversion—all to increase grain yields. What does this mean for China's food production planning in an age of insecurity?

The CCP's agronomy has returned to a commandism that ignores both science and democratic practice

21/07/2023

"Olivia Chow's win provides an opening for the new Hong Kong and Chinese diaspora to move beyond single-issue anti-CCP activism and build the case for a progressive, internationalist diaspora politics based on cross-border and anti-capitalist solidarity."

Chow’s election urges Toronto's Hong Kong diasporas to reflect andconnect the lessons of the 'Old Diaspora' with the urgent struggles of the New.

21/07/2023

At the end of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow's first week in office, Vincent Wong reflects on her election as an opportunity to recover a progressive and left politics in the city's Hong Kong diaspora.

Chow’s election urges Toronto's Hong Kong diasporas to reflect andconnect the lessons of the 'Old Diaspora' with the urgent struggles of the New.

03/07/2023

We have a new "About" page. It reflects how our editorial vision has broadened beyond its original formulation at the beginning of Hong Kong's anti-ELAB movement. Read some of our editors’ brief reflections on these new directions here:

We at Lausan stand in unwavering solidarity with the people of Kashmir, who have been fighting militarized Indian occupation for decades and for their rights to self-determination and autonomy as a people to be respected and observed.

26/06/2023

"Almost two decades of Chinese loans and infrastructure-led development have left Jamaican workers and farmers as precarious and dispossessed as ever."

Robert Connell provides a first-hand look at the devastating impacts of China's Belt and Road on Indigenous Maroons in Jamaica.

21/06/2023

Read Robert Connell's compelling ethnographic research on Jamaica's Indigenous Maroon resistance to the devastating effects of China's Belt-and-Road infrastructure projects and bauxite mining:

Robert Connell provides a first-hand look at the devastating impacts of China's Belt and Road on Indigenous Maroons in Jamaica.

17/06/2023

Ruckus' new book "The Left in China" provides a detailed historiography of China's struggles from below and poses a question to the global left: "What side of the barricade will you be on?" Pluto Press

Ruckus' important new work traces grassroots and non-party left-wing opposition across 70 years of PRC history.

14/06/2023

Ralf Ruckus' new book "The Left in China" is a critical political cartography that forcefully dispels the idea that the CCP presides comfortably over a homogenous “left” in China. Read the book review by :

Ruckus' important new work traces grassroots and non-party left-wing opposition across 70 years of PRC history.

04/06/2023

The demands of both students and workers at Tiananmen have long been coopted by the US for its own militarist aims. Read Promise Li's new preface on how Tiananmen workers' politics help to articulate a much-needed alternative to imperialism. https://lausancollective.com/2023/against-cooptation-tiananmen/

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 forces of “communism.”

19/05/2023

"Without confronting China's patriarchal Han chauvinist and capitalist domination of minority ethnic groups, a social movement about China’s political future cannot be truly liberatory." Read this solidarity statement by Left Chinese Student Association:
https://lausancollective.com/2023/lcsa-against-political-repression/

Chinese leftists articulate the importance of diaspora and internationalism in Hong Kong and China's future struggles.

01/05/2023

The Hong Kong government has banned May Day rallies this year.

Read this translated statement by two Hong Kong labor activists who explain why it is important to organize May Day actions despite repression and intimidation from authorities.

https://lausancollective.com/2023/why-may-day-march/

Two Hong Kong labor activists explain why they applied for a May Day rally permit in 2023, in the era of the National Security Law.

22/04/2023

What are the social developments and political discussions happening now in the new Hong Kong diaspora?

Read Zi-yuet's critical report on the inaugural UK-Hong Kong Summit that took place in London this past March: https://lausancollective.com/2023/building-civil-society-in-diaspora/

A critical assessment of diasporic Hongkonger activists’ discussions on their role in the future of Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy.

16/04/2023

This past March, diasporic Hongkongers met in London to practice democratic decisionmaking and discuss the future of Hong Kong's struggle. Read this critical assessment of their discussions and the role of Hong Kong's left in this new phase of organizing.
https://lausancollective.com/2023/building-civil-society-in-diaspora/

A critical assessment of diasporic Hongkonger activists’ discussions on their role in the future of Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy.

31/01/2023

The 2022 UC Strike mobilized large numbers of Chinese international student workers, including many first-time organizers. Read JN Chien and Promise Li's interview with rank-and-file Chinese graduate workers about their experiences during the strike: https://lausancollective.com/2023/chinese-student-workers-uc-strike/

Three Chinese international student workers discuss the setbacks and possibilities in the 2022 UC Strike.

25/01/2023

A teacher reflects on resistance and incarceration with her student, imprisoned in Hong Kong for "rioting" in 2019: "Why not lie to the liars? Why not cheat the cheaters? I tell her I want to debate this with her, what is survival and what is strategy?" https://lausancollective.com/2023/no-one-could-pretend

"I wonder if TZ is suggesting that the foundation to this abolition is a daily, lifelong refusal to apologize."

20/01/2023

The White Paper Revolution is producing a new generation of politicized youth—many of whom, like Cao Zhixin, have already begun to face arrest. Read our interview with China Deviants, a collective of Chinese diaspora activists, on their organizing: https://lausancollective.com/2023/chinas-politicised-youth/

An interview with Chinese diaspora student activists on resisting depoliticisation, building solidarity and political organisation.

14/01/2023

The left's commitment to "value-free multipolarity" isn't anti-imperialist—it simply converges with the interests of the global far-right who, like the U.S., wish to engage freely in acts of capitalist imperialism and colonialism. From Kavita Krishnan https://lausancollective.com/2023/left-must-question-multipolarity/

The left's adoption of the language of "multipolarity" is anti-Marxist and gives cover to the global far-right.

08/01/2023

"The CCP’s sudden turn from zero-COVID to reopening is a continuation of a logic of governance that prioritizes the preservation of profits for the ruling class over people’s livelihoods—a logic shared with the US’ own lax pandemic policies." https://lausancollective.com/2023/zerocovid-reopening-statecapitalisms/

The CCP’s sudden reversal from zero-COVID is an adjustment toward a different logic of state capitalist accumulation in response to market trends.