Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s unpopular government signals there’s worse to come Hong Kong society under Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is anything other than ‘stable’. The government’s slump in popular support deepens as corruption scandals, a worsenin...

The de facto deportation of FT Asia editor Victor Mallet is a major attack on freedom of speech Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) reporters The denial of a work visa for senior Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet is a clear sign that Chi...

Learning the lessons of how democratic rights were won internationally Adam N. Lee, Stop Repression in Hong Kong The Stop Repression in Hong Kong campaign was set up in 2017 to coordinate international protests against the worsening political...

Another costly white elephant project with sinister political implications Adam N. Lee, chinaworker.info It has been dubbed by some as the “Trojan train” because for the first time it legitimises the presence of Chinese police and security official...

Banning of “separatist” group is part of a wider agenda to attack democratic rights Dikang, Socialist Action With his speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) Andy Chan Ho-tin emerged as an attention seeker who just won the ‘jackpot’....

Tiny Hong Kong National Party is being used as a test case for a wider political crackdown Socialist Action reporters Hong Kong’s government has for the first time moved to ban a political party, as the Beijing-driven political crackdown in the...

Lower numbers reflect need for clear strategy of mass action against authoritarian rule Socialist Action reporters For the 16th year running tens of thousands of Hong Kong people turned out on Sunday July 1 for the annual ‘7.1’ anti-governm...

Yet again Hong Kong organised a powerful act of defiance on 1989 massacre anniversary Vincent Kolo, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) Around 115,000 people, Hong Kongers plus thousands of mainland visitors, turned out for this year’s June...

‘Mongkok riot’ trials reveal a political agenda to deter the younger generation from resisting repression  Dikang, Socialist Action Hong Kongers young and old have been shocked and outraged by the six-year jail sentence served on former localis...

Protests in 25 cities around the world on May 4 against attacks on democratic rights By Stop Repression in Hong Kong May 4, 99 years after the historic 1919 movement for democracy and modernisation in China, was the date of international soli...