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We wrote this book to introduce how China's integration into capitalism transformed its society while catalyzing a destructive imperial rivalry with the US. Lots of reasons for pessimism, but as we show, resistance springs eternal! Available in June haymarketbooks.org/books/2228-chi…

This took a lot of hard work. We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA program at the University of Washington. This would be the first Taiwan Studies graduate degree in North America (and second in the world). Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025!

Goes without saying baozi are on the menu

I mean they have a Lennon Wall inside

There's a whole restaurant in Madrid just to troll Xi

Don't miss this one

Coming in January, if I was in the US I would be absolutely be there! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

NYU has a long track record of accepting censorship in its Shanghai and Abu Dhabi campuses, now it's boomeranging with a vengeance on the NYC campus

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions just announced they would go on an indefinite general strike until President Yoon Suk-yeol resigns

11月28日，建筑工人们在湖北潜江园林青酒业办公楼的楼顶上讨薪，这是他们此次讨薪行动的第八天。

First they call the NYPD on students, now this

There’s another rally against the KMT’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today outside the legislature tonight. Though it started only ten minutes ago, it’s already larger than the rally last weekend

Workers facing unpaid wages murder their manager in Zhengzhou. The stress is literally killing people

Would be a large shift if nurses is opened up as a category to international labor, particularly at a time of large departures from the nursing industry taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ar…

They already snatched her husband, but she hasn't given up 🫡 Good snapshot of one of the many ways HK has targeted progressive activism nytimes.com/2024/11/27/wor…

My co-author Ashley interviewed about our book, includes a post-publication update on Gaza tempestmag.org/2024/11/buildi…

“We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.” New theory just dropped, Ideas Capitalism with Florida Characteristics nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/…

Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and Workers Against CCP Rally with UK Trade Unionists 🔥Join our demonstration to "Free Hong Kong Political Prisoners" 45 pro-democracy activists including vocal trade unionists Carol Ng, Winnie Yu and labour advocate Leung Kwok-hung were convicted of "conspiracy to subvert state power" for their involvement in the 2020 primary elections and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four years and two months to ten years. This sentencing represents a blatant act of political suppression, underscoring how authorities continue to weaponise the National Security Law to target civil society, with no indication of easing their repressive measures. We must not remain silent. We are responsible for speaking out for the people of Hong Kong, ensuring that the 45 pro-democracy figures sentenced in the primary election case, along with others oppressed for fighting for Hong Kong’s democracy, know they are not forgotten. Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor and @WorkersAntiCCP are collaborating with UK trade unionists and activists of civic organisations, including those from UNISON, PCS （ Public and Commercial Services Union ）, the British Medical Association, Borderless Movement, and Democracy for Hong Kong (D4HK). We will organise a "Free the Hong Kong 45" protest rally on Saturday, November 30. 📅Date: 30 November 2024(Saturday) ⏲️Time: 3pm 📍Venue: Embassy of China, 49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL 🔥Free Carol Ng, Winnie Yu, Leung Kwok-hung and all the HK47 - quash their convictions! 🔥 Free Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung and all Hongkongers repressed for pro-worker and pro-democracy activity! 🔥 Free political prisoners in mainland China including feminist Sophia Huang Xueqin, workers’ rights activist Wang Jianbing, civil rights activist Xu Zhiyong, and Uyghur intellectuals Rahile Dawut, Ilham Tohti and Perhat Tursun! 🔥Freedom to organise independent trade unions and political oppositon in Hong Kong & China! Link to statement: bit.ly/4fxy5lF

Among the 45 imprisoned Hong Kong activists is nurse and union chair Winnie Yu, now sentenced to 6 years 9 months. HK has always been hostile to labor, but this is a new low. Via @HKLabourRights hklabourrights.org/research/winni…

Another with one of the longest jail terms is the city’s most visible leftist, ‘Long Hair’—organized since the 1970s in Hong Kong against the British colonial regime, multiple US imperialist wars from Iraq to Gaza, the IMF and the World Bank.

PRC seems to be getting comfortable with doing a little imperialism