Carrie Lam
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Beijing’s election farce won’t end the crisis
“Government credibility is high, but voter turnout will be low” – says Carrie Lam
Zuo Ren, Socialist Action
The first Legislative Council (Legco) elections since Beijing’s “makeover” will be held on December 19. The Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has i...
China
Hong Kong: Third wave of pandemic and counter-revolutionary repression
Government uses new Covid-19 outbreak as pretext to cancel Legco elections
Jo Yan, Socialist Action
The passage of the draconian Hong Kong National Security Law means the counter-revolutionary suppression by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has offic...
China
Hong Kong national security law – Xi Jinping’s “nuclear option”
The imposition of the new national security law in Hong Kong by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) is a massive blow to democratic and political rights
Per-Ake Westerlund and Vincent Kolo
The effect of the Chinese regime’s new law is similar to a milit...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s democracy struggle – how to break the impasse?
Carrie Lam’s government faces its biggest challenges since taking office
Editorial from Socialist (社会主义者) magazine issue 51, Spring 2019
Increased authoritarian rule and a political crackdown in Hong Kong have not translated into stable g...
Hong Kong
Carrie Lam’s policy address: “Pouring money into the sea”
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...
China
Hong Kong’s controversial high-speed rail link to China opens
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...
China
Hong Kong’s election: Ruled by the 0.02 percent
Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam won with 777 votes
Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)
On 26 March the Chief Executive (CE) election charade completed its final act. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was chosen by a grand total of 777 votes i...
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Explainer: How Marxists see China’s property crash
Dikang, chinaworker.info
China’s property market is now in its second year of deep slump. This is the most serious of all the serio...
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