{"id":8307,"date":"2014-10-06T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T06:44:17","slug":"hong-kong-government-and-police-coordinate-criminal-attacks-on-umbrella-protest-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2014\/10\/06\/8307\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Government and police coordinate criminal attacks on \u2018Umbrella\u2019 protest movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reject fake \u2018negotiations\u2019 \u2022 Organise democratic defence committees to repel attacks and kick out\u00a0CY Leung\u2019s brutal government!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI Hong Kong)<\/p>\n

On Friday 3 October, with protests ranks dipping after six days of occupations, standoffs with police, and the end of a two-day public holiday, the mass democracy movement suffered what were evidently coordinated attacks on several fronts. In the working class district of Mong Kok, where Socialist Action (CWI) members have been very active in the \u2018Umbrella Movement\u2019 protests, criminal gangs (triads) and crowds mobilised by \u2018Caring Hong Kong Power\u2019 \u2013 a racist right-wing pro-regime group \u2013 attacked the occupation violently, tearing down tents and barricades and assaulting pro-democracy protesters while police largely stood back. The police said 37 people were injured on Friday, at least 18 of these\u00a0in Mong Kok\u00a0where\u00a019 people were arrested \u2013 half of whom\u00a0had \u201ctriad backgrounds\u201d according to police.<\/p>\n

A simultaneous and identical attack, involving\u00a0a similar mix of underworld and pro-Beijing forces, was mounted against the occupation in Causeway Bay, on Hong Kong Island, which provided a pretext for police to move in and clear barricades and tents, in an attempt to close down the occupation there. Female protesters report being\u00a0pushed and threatened by the attackers:\u00a0\u201cIf you come to the protests, be prepared to be sexually harassed.\u201d A new pro-government group was formed this week, wearing blue ribbons in support of the police, as a counterforce to the yellow ribbon-wearing democracy protesters. This is only the latest of many \u2018initiatives by concerned citizens\u2019 that are in fact front organisations for the Chinese dictatorship (CCP). This is a tactic it has long practised under the\u00a0misnamed title of\u00a0\u201cUnited Front.\u201d A video is circulating showing police outside\u00a0a Causeway Bay police station distributing blue ribbons to a crowd of mostly middle-aged men who were later seen attacking the occupation.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s government-inspired violence follows an attack two days earlier, carried out by a pro-regime rural organisation (Heung Yee\u00a0Kuk) against a campaign stall run by the pro-democracy Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU). Around 10,000 members of the HKCTU \u2013 in sectors such as transport, education and services \u2013 have been on strike since Monday September 29, as part of the current protest movement. This orchestrated violence is backed up by intensive media propaganda against \u201cchaos\u201d and \u201ceconomic paralysis\u201d which is blamed on the democracy\u00a0protests.<\/p>\n

Also at the main Admiralty protest site, outside the besieged government headquarters, there is now an urgent need to organise serious defence against right-wing pro-Beijing thugs as well as\u00a0new police assaults. There have been clashes in Admiralty between police and protesters angered over deceitful and provocative police manoeuvres. On Friday morning for example the police asked the occupiers to clear a corridor to allow in an ambulance for a sick policeman, only to use this to drive in truckloads of tear gas, rubber bullets, and other weaponry. A CNN journalist reported seeing containers being brought into the government offices Thursday evening (October 2) labelled \u201cround, 38 mm rubber baton,\u201d which is another name for rubber bullets.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/a>
Police moved tear gas and rubber bullets into the Chief Executive’s Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Masses defend Mong Kok occupation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The police action has effectively turned Chief Executive CY Leung\u2019s office into an armed fortress following a threat by\u00a0more radical student groups to stage an occupation there. This arose\u00a0out of growing\u00a0frustration among more radical sections of the youth over the government\u2019s waiting game and violent attacks, but also\u00a0a growing fear that the \u2018moderate\u2019 leaders are again looking for a way to wind down the movement.<\/p>\n

The attacks on the occupations were clearly coordinated, and followed an almost identical pattern and timing \u2013 in the middle of the day when occupation numbers were low. Democracy protesters are in no doubt that the counterstrike against the protest movement was organised and directed by the government and the commanders of the Hong Kong Police Force whose brutal gas attacks on peaceful protests triggered the \u2018Umbrella Revolution\u2019 as it has come to be known.<\/p>\n

In Mong Kok, appeals for reinforcements to retake control of the area for the protest movement saw pro-occupation crowds swell to around 10,000 by Friday evening. This is an incredible response, given that statements issued by the \u2018official\u2019 leaders of the movement \u2013 including the Federation of Students and youth NGO Scholarism \u2013 called only for people to gather in the main protest site at\u00a0Admiralty. The mobilisation to defend the Mong Kok protest site was an initiative of more radical and \u2018unofficial\u2019 protest groups and ordinary people.<\/p>\n

Socialist Action members, who have been an active force in Mong Kok for years, were active alongside other protesters in attempting to defend the Mong Kok occupation during its\u00a0most vulnerable hours, around midday. Heavily outnumbered more than 20-to-1 by crowds of pro-government attackers, the defenders were forced to pull back. One question that is puzzling many activists after these battles is the role of the so-called\u00a0\u2018nativists\u2019 \u2013 a loose network of groupings that mainly mobilise through internet and combine an\u00a0\u2018anarchistic\u2019 denunciation of\u00a0all\u00a0parties and\u00a0\u2018leaders\u2019,\u00a0with\u00a0pro-independence ideas, but also\u00a0crude anti-mainlander\u00a0racism. These groups have also been active in the Mong Kok occupation. But this\u00a0\u2018activity\u2019 is often directed against\u00a0other groups, especially Socialist Action, whose street meetings and leafleting the \u2018nativists\u2019\u00a0have attempted to\u00a0disrupt. Yet the \u2018nativists\u2019 were\u00a0conspicuously absent on Friday when the pro-government forces launched\u00a0wave after wave of attacks upon the occupation\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the major news item throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Evidence is beginning to emerge that the CCP has infiltrated\u00a0some\u00a0\u2018nativist\u2019 networks. Last December, a group of \u2018nativist\u2019\u00a0protesters ran into the PLA (Chinese military) garrison in Admiralty waving a British colonial-era flag and calling for the PLA to\u00a0\u201cget out of Hong Kong!\u201d One\u00a0member of this group has subsequently been unmasked as a CCP member and\u00a0expelled. While to some it might seem\u00a0contradictory for Beijing to be goading\u00a0and\u00a0manipulating pro-independence groups, it is in fact famous\u00a0for deploying such\u00a0Machiavellian\u00a0methods. While\u00a0the degree of CCP penetration of such groups is not clear, there is no doubt that\u00a0Beijing exploits the flag-waving anti-mainlander antics of the \u2018nativists\u2019 \u2013 giving them\u00a0massive media attention inside China \u2013 to portray\u00a0the democracy movement as \u2018anti-China\u2019\u00a0and to justify greater political repression.<\/p>\n

\"MK<\/a><\/p>\n

Several occupation sites<\/strong><\/p>\n

The struggle to defend all the occupation sites\u00a0is an important issue. Having several\u00a0occupation sites increases the protest movement\u2019s effectiveness in economic and even more importantly in political terms. But perhaps its most important effect is making the occupation more resilient to police attacks.\u00a0The decentralisation of the occupations into four sites\u00a0\u2013\u00a0at one stage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0was a response to the vicious police offensive of September 28-29 that aimed to break the current movement. It was a brilliant and wholly improvised tactical response from the protesters that instantly wrong footed police commanders and magnified their strategic problems. The police game plan for crushing the occupation movement had been based on the notion of \u2018Occupy Central\u2019 (a campaign led by liberal professors that never actually materialised) \u2013 i.e. for just one site, which could have been far more easily surrounded and defeated.<\/p>\n

Pressure is also emerging within the \u2018Umbrella Movement\u2019 from sections of its leadership uneasy over the existence of\u00a0so many protest sites. This makes the movement much harder for these largely self-appointed leaders to control. The \u2018moderate\u2019 bourgeois pan democrats who today are the dominant political influence within this movement, have been completely stunned\u00a0\u2013\u00a0almost as much as the Hong Kong and Chinese governments\u00a0\u2013\u00a0by the scale and fighting spirit of these protests. These politicians have always dreaded mass struggle, which they know can be radicalised and slip beyond their control.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt present, the status quo is confusion,\u201d said former Democratic Party leader Albert Ho Chun-yan. Bourgeois politicians like Ho have on many occasions opposed mass struggle and given\u00a0credence to government scare propaganda against \u2018extremism\u2019 and \u2018violent protests\u2019. This was the case when many pan democratic politicians condemned protesters including LSD legislator \u2018Long Hair\u2019 Leung Kwok-hung after angry protests at a government consultation forum in 2011. \u2018Long Hair\u2019 recently served one-month in prison on trumped up charges arising from this protest. The alleged\u00a0\u2018violence\u2019 in this case concerned\u00a0a few broken flower pots and a damaged door, which even the court did not blame on \u2018Long Hair\u2019\u00a0\u2013 who\u00a0himself was assaulted by a government supporter at this\u00a0forum. This and other incidents have been\u00a0seized upon by moderate pan democrats to denounce\u00a0\u2018violent protests\u2019 \u2013 particularly when\u00a0they were fighting elections (for district councils in 2011 and the legislature in 2012) and faced a big challenge from more\u00a0\u2018radical\u2019 candidates.<\/p>\n

So today it is not surprising if moderates like Ho\u00a0are \u201cconfused\u201d by an\u00a0unprecedented mass struggle. But the striking thing about the Hong Kong movement is rather the clarity of purpose and decisive actions of the youth, students and ordinary working people, in their daily standoff with the government and the police.<\/p>\n

The \u2018moderate\u2019 pan democrats\u2019 aim is to strike a compromise\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a \u2018pragmatic solution\u2019\u00a0\u2013\u00a0involving what can only be peripheral concessions, leaving the current dictatorial governments in power (with or without CY Leung). This is not an agenda for \u2018full democracy\u2019 as demanded by the masses and therefore risks to unleash massive dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n

The current violent attacks against\u00a0the mass movement\u00a0are part of a government strategy, as Socialist Action warned would be the case, to increase the pressure on the \u2018moderate\u2019 pan democrats and groups like \u2018Occupy Central\u2019 (OC) to seek a way out through\u00a0\u2018compromise\u2019. The attacks also increase the edginess of the \u2018moderate\u2019 leaders as they cannot control the protests. They would clearly prefer to re-centralise the protest movement into one\u00a0\u2013\u00a0more easily controlled\u00a0\u2013\u00a0protest site. This explains why, while they have condemned the violent attacks and criticising the role of police, there is an evident lack of interest from these leaders to call for the continuation \u2013 and\u00a0defence \u2013 of the Mong Kok and Causeway Bay occupations.<\/p>\n

\"Pro-CCP<\/a>
Pro-CCP gangs mobilised to attack occupation in Mong Kok district.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Negotiations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this stage of the struggle, with the initial surge forward hitting\u00a0a plateau,\u00a0reinforced by\u00a0the lack of any clear strategy or real leadership, there is uncertainty over where the movement should go and what its demands should be. A key question is the attitude towards negotiations, which the government long refused.<\/p>\n

Too many times in Hong Kong, a mass protest movement has\u00a0been left empty-handed because the leaders are not under democratic control and, while there are thousands of single-issue NGOs, there are no genuinely mass organisations, especially workers\u2019 organisations. The bourgeois politicians who dominate the democracy struggle at this stage do not want a revolution \u2013 \u2018umbrella\u2019 or otherwise \u2013 because they share the fear of the capitalist class that this will\u00a0go beyond calls for one-person-one vote (bourgeois democracy) and begin to directly challenge the big corporations and banks that are bleeding\u00a0the people\u00a0dry. Too often the\u00a0pan democratic\u00a0leaders have walked\u00a0into the trap of fake dialogue with CCP dictatorship or its local minions \u2013 dialogue that only has one purpose: to get people off the streets without\u00a0offering any real or meaningful change.<\/p>\n

Already there is division within the movement on this crucial question. The main student groups initially declared correctly that negotiations are ruled out while CY Leung remains in office \u2013 this is a minimum position! Yet when the government made the offer to meet protest leaders on Thursday evening, October 2, a plan obviously approved or dictated by Beijing, the \u2018moderates\u2019 and especially the \u2018OC\u2019 leaders seem to have exerted pressure on others including the students to agree to\u00a0talks. This is\u00a0linked to the\u00a0fears of the pan democratic politicians that they have lost control over the movement.<\/p>\n

The attacks in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay then cut across this development, with mass pressure increasing upon the student leaders to\u00a0change\u00a0their position and say no to negotiations. Meanwhile\u00a0\u2018OC\u2019 leaders have hinted they are still open to talks with the government. Their eagerness to shift the struggle from the masses on the streets to leaders sitting around a table is part of the political \u2018DNA\u2019 of the \u2018moderate\u2019 pan democrats. They want to use any\u00a0talks to\u00a0claim \u201ca moral victory\u201d arguing the mass protests should be ended \u201cfor now\u201d. Yet such a position would be disastrous. This would mean throwing away the enormous momentum the mass struggle has acquired and letting the government \u2013 which has bottomless reserves of dishonesty and scheming \u2013 off the hook!<\/p>\n

\"Sally<\/a>
Sally Tang Mei-ching of Socialist Action speaks at Admiralty mass rally of 100,000 people on Saturday October 4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Need for a workers\u2019 party
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The successes of any struggle, especially such a\u00a0historic movement, have to be measured by concrete gains, not empty promises. This means nothing less than the downfall of CY Leung\u2019s cruel and corrupt government,\u00a0and a refusal to accept any successor other than through a genuinely democratic election, without the CCP\u2019s Big Business-dominated nomination committee. There must be\u00a0no restrictions on which candidates can stand. As far as Socialist Action is concerned, this\u00a0also means the replacement of the current rubber stamp legislature with a genuine people\u2019s assembly, with its members fully elected, subject to popular recall, and paid only a skilled workers\u2019 wage. As in Scotland\u2019s recent referendum, the voting age should be cut to sixteen, with young people having shown beyond any doubt the crucial role they play in society\u2019s political development.<\/p>\n

Socialists are not dogmatists who rule out the idea of negotiations on principle. There are many occasions when in a workplace struggle or social movement socialists among\u00a0the leadership would enter into negotiations, providing this is\u00a0backed up by the pressure of mass action. But talks with this Hong Kong government \u2013 under orders from a dictatorship that will never negotiate away its power and control \u2013 is a recipe for certain failure. This is especially so if the negotiators are the same \u2018moderate\u2019 pan democratic leaders whose compromise approach has not yielded a single real democratic advance in more than three decades (and who played no part in launching the current mass movement).<\/p>\n

Socialist Action, as a Marxist organisation, serves as the memory of the working class movement. We remind the masses of past mistakes \u2013 the bitter experience of betrayals in the history of Hong Kong\u2019s democracy struggle \u2013 so these lost opportunities can be avoided in the struggle today.<\/p>\n

This magnificent mass movement has captured the attention of the whole world, especially workers and youth. There have been outpourings of solidarity from all over the world, including from workers\u2019 organisations from the Philippines to Britain. During the \u2018National Day\u2019 holiday\u00a0(October 1)\u00a0the crowd numbers taking part in Hong Kong reached 200,000 or more.<\/p>\n

Socialist Action has played an active role in the occupation movement and the school strike from which it developed. We link the democratic struggle to the need to fight capitalism, particularly the need for a new mass workers\u2019 party to coalesce from among the working class and left layers of this movement. This is needed to challenge the dictatorial economic power of Hong Kong\u2019s tycoon families and build support for a socialist alternative with democratic public control over the banks and property companies as the only way to relieve the unbearable burden of housing costs \u2013 officially the \u2018most unaffordable\u2019 in the world \u2013 as well as the scourge of poverty, stagnating real wages and privatisation of public services.<\/p>\n

\"Mass<\/a>
Mass protest at Admiralty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pass the umbrella to China!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Socialist Action also, as one of the few voices in this movement, calls for the struggle to be spread to the mainland, by supporting illegal workers\u2019 struggles in China\u2019s sweatshops and the fight against state repression. This is the only viable strategy to defeat the CCP dictatorship, which today constitutes a seemingly insurmountable \u2018roadblock\u2019 for democracy in Hong Kong, as well of course as China itself. Unfortunately, many of the protests groups, especially those influenced by liberal pro-capitalist parties like the Democratic Party, do not see the need for this or indeed reject this as \u2018interference\u2019 in China\u2019s affairs that will provoke the dictatorship to take an even more hardline stand.<\/p>\n

But \u2018self censorship\u2019 and attempts to separate the two struggles are a seriously flawed approach that actually strengthens the hand of the Chinese regime. The \u2018umbrella\u2019 must be passed from Hong Kong to China, and the sooner the better. But this requires a programme based on the interests of the working class and the poor, in China and Hong Kong, as opposed to the interests of the capitalists who anyway are firmly in the anti-democratic camp.<\/p>\n

Socialist Action has consistently argued that mass democracy protests must be organised on democratic lines, with elected action committees open to all participating groups to run the occupations, coordinate with striking workers and students, and to take all major decisions on the future tactics, including what attitude to take towards eventual concessions or offers of talks from the government.<\/p>\n

We faced criticism and bureaucratic attempts to block our activity\u00a0from\u00a0some of the groups within the democracy struggle, when during the 100,000-strong movement against school brainwashing in 2012 we warned against allowing a \u2018small circle\u2019 leadership to decide everything without an open and democratic approach. Yet this proved to be a decisive problem\u00a0when that movement was suddenly and inexplicably called off without obtaining a full reversal of the government\u2019s reactionary policy.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there is a similar absence of democratic structures today, and while the largely spontaneous and loosely organised occupation ran with an impressive energy and smoothness in its first days, this model of conducting a mass struggle is now being severely tested by the government\u2019s campaign to terrorise the occupations. The violence against the protest movement makes the issue of democratic organisation extremely urgent. This can only be solved by\u00a0setting up action committees in every occupation, to coordinate mobilisation and especially to organise self-defence, with similar democratic bodies established in schools and workplaces to build the strike movement. These committees must decide tactics and which political responses are needed\u00a0through\u00a0open and democratic discussions. Only a fully democratic movement is capable of defeating the government.<\/p>\n

Socialist Action and the CWI fights for:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  • Down with CY Leung!<\/li>\n
  • No more fake deals and negotiations: Full democracy now!<\/li>\n
  • Support and extend the\u00a0\u2018Umbrella Revolution\u2019 \u2013 build democratic action committees to decide the next steps and organise self-defence against government orchestrated violence!<\/li>\n
  • Continue and build the schools strike! For a fighting independent school student union!<\/li>\n
  • Down with one-party CCP dictatorship! Down with the capitalist tycoons that enjoy\u00a0its protection!<\/li>\n
  • The democracy struggle is also a class struggle \u2013\u00a0We need a mass workers\u2019 party to fight for\u00a0socialism!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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