{"id":13817,"date":"2016-12-09T18:52:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T06:05:38","slug":"hong-kong-cy-forced-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2016\/12\/09\/13817\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: CY Leung forced out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Now let\u2019s change the whole corrupt system!<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Socialist Action statement<\/p>\n<p>CY has quit! Millions of Hong Kongers are celebrating the news. As Chief Executive, Leung Chun-ying has been an absolute disaster. It is a supreme irony that his bosses in the Chinese dictatorship have \u2018disqualified\u2019 CY just as he was pushing to disqualify a large segment of Hong Kong\u2019s elected legislators. His rule has been marked by attacks on democratic rights and social polarisation. In real terms, poverty has got worse and the housing crisis even more unbearable. CY\u2019s agenda was all about increased mainland political control over Hong Kong: national education, the undemocratic LegCo purge, aggressive police tactics against protests, and a fresh push to bring in Article 23\u00a0(anti-subversion law).<\/p>\n<p>The man is gone (he will not seek \u2018re-election\u2019 in March), but the system he represented still remains! The struggle for democratic rights must be stepped up. Whatever official \u2018spin\u2019 is put on CY\u2019s departure, the real reason is his rule was made untenable by mass pressure and protests. The September LegCo election results were a humiliating setback for the establishment camp, with their vote cut from 44.1 percent in the 2012 elections to 40.2 percent. This in turn was part of the legacy from the mass Umbrella Movement of 2014. CY survived that unprecedented 79-day struggle \u2013 but as a damaged ruler.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13851\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13851\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2016\/12\/HKcover39-423x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Socialist magazine\u2019s cover September 2016 predicted CY Leung was about to be \u201csent off\u201d by his boss Xi Jinping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Power struggle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beijing has now pulled the plug on his disastrous rule. This is a scenario socialists raised in the aftermath of the September elections (see cover image)\u00a0with\u00a0the Chinese regime\u00a0hoping to avert further political upheavals in Hong Kong. As has been widely speculated, Beijing have been deliberating on replacing CY with a less confrontational, less \u2018factional\u2019 leader, in an attempt to reduce political tensions. In March\u2019s small-circle election they may now opt for a figure like Finance Secretary, John Tsang Chun-wah, who commands support among Hong Kong\u2019s traditional tycoon families. These groups chafed at CY\u2019s policies, especially his ties to mainland \u2018red capitalist\u2019 business interests.<\/p>\n<p>It now seems clear that the LegCo purge and political crisis in Hong Kong of recent weeks was a desperate bid by CY to save his own job. In this he seems to have received support from his CCP factional allies such as Zhang Dejiang of the NPC. This has failed and leaves a big question mark over the purge and the fate of four lawmakers, including \u2018Long Hair\u2019 of the LSD, who CY dragged before the courts on a bogus charge of making \u201cimproper\u201d oaths.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians who have reached the end of the line often\u00a0cite \u201cfamily reasons\u201d or \u201chealth reasons\u201d rather than admit their situation is the result of mass pressure and unpopularity. A recent poll published in Hong Kong Free Press showed only 19 percent of Hong Kongers supported CY\u2019s re-election. CY is so distrusted, and has been caught lying so many times, that some people don\u2019t believe his announcement and suspect some kind of trick.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to remove him\u00a0was almost certainly taken by Xi Jinping and the central leadership, and reflects the power struggle in Beijing. But the reason they acted in this way shows the power of mass struggle. It is the politically charged atmosphere and stubborn resistance of the masses that ended CY\u2019s despicable political career. It is a victory for mass pressure including September\u2019s LegCo election result.<\/p>\n<p>This is a victory, delayed of course, but a victory no less, for the Umbrella Movement\u00a0\u2013 a lesson that needs to be spelt out in the debates about what happens next. It is the second time (out of three) that a Hong Kong Chief Executive has had their rule cut short as a result of\u00a0mass struggle \u2013 remember how Tung Chee-hwa was forced to quit \u201con health grounds\u201d after the mass protests of 2003 against Article 23.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons of this are crucial for rebuilding the democracy struggle in Hong Kong \u2013 and in China. There may be renewed attempts to propose \u2018compromise\u2019 and \u2018political reconciliation\u2019 under\u00a0whoever replaces CY. But the corrupt and undemocratic system remains unchanged. CY was a particularly odious representative of the authoritarian establishment, but we must overthrow the whole establishment \u2013 the system of capitalist dictatorship \u2013 if democratic rights and an end to economic hardships are to become a reality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13818\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2016\/12\/1b47f804-4262-11e6-b5a0-f2e623e104bf_1280x720-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now let\u2019s change the whole corrupt system!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hong-kong","8":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hong Kong: CY Leung forced out! 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