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Beijing confronts Hong Kong’s tycoons to buy off the movement?
17/9/19:More on Beijing’s growing focus on confronting Hong Kong’s tycoons “…after months of anti-government protests, China sees the tycoons, primarily property developers, as people responsible...
View ArticleBangladesh garment workers clash with cops
15/9/19:Bangladesh, Narayanganj: garment workers clash with cops in road blockades against unpaid wages and illegal sackings “Ready-made garment (RMG) workers blocked multiple roads in Dhaka’s Mirpur...
View ArticleBritish cops help Hong Kong cops
This video from 7/9/19 shows how the cops in Hong Kong are using British commanders to organise more or less ‘softly softly’ riot control against protesters. “We’re outside the Mong Kok police...
View ArticleEcuador – October 9, 2019
9/10/19: Ecuador: 1st day of possibly indefinite general strike…whilst indigenous leaders condemn “vandalism and looting”…clashes in Guayaquil, where government has moved to …More here Videos and...
View ArticleHong Kong – the kindness of strangers
7/10/19: Report on the spread of solidarity and the kindness of strangers Report about October 1st on how whole neighbourhood helped protesters escape cops and teargas, inviting them into their flats,...
View ArticleOn fires and firebombs – Hong Kong, 7/10/19
On fires and firebombs “Hong Kong fire officials have voiced concern about online instructions for petrol bombs that suggest using a self-igniting material that would make the explosives even more...
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Extinction Rebellion (October 2019)
12/10/19: Protests throughout world, though totally lacking in any perspective other than trying to influence the destroyers of the planet not to destroy it The “Midas Touch” which capitalism has long...
View ArticleHong Kong cop violence – made in the UK
Hong Kong cop violence – made in the UK Very interesting report, which I’ve just received from a friend. But ignore the stupid recommendations at the end, which don’t make sense given the obvious...
View ArticleHong Kong state planning a massacre to be blamed on protesters?
On 14th October, cops claimed this: “A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to “kill or to harm” riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the...
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fare dodging was never like this! (18/10/19)
18/10/19: Fare-dodging, 2019: Santiago Chile, Santiago: State of emergency declared as youths riot in response to cops getting heavy over mass fare dodging against massive fare increases (and other...
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Social revolt in Iraq and Lebanon
Received from a contact (followed by links to various recent events in both countries) SF note: There’s a tendency to minimise the problems and contradictions of these movements (eg patriotism and...
View ArticleCatalonia October 2019
16/10/19 : Spain, Catalonia : an example of the confusions of this epoch …Videos and links about 4 towns (mainly Barcelona, but also Gerona, Tarragona and Lerida) See Homage to Catatonia, on this site...
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Lebanon
Lebanon Originally published as part of the “Social Revolt in Iraq and Lebanon” post, no named “Social revolt in Iraq” Beirut, 21/10/19 “Mocking Lebanon’s political dynasties and handing-down of power...
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German army trains China’s PLA
German army trains China’s PLA “Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong urged Germany on Sunday (Nov 17) to stop military training assistance to China after its troops appeared in the protest-hit Asian...
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Iran
See also chronology December 2018 back to August 2014 1/12/19: Guardian report on the movement in Shiraz ““Everyone took to the streets, I was really hopeful that things would change,” one of the...
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Coronavirus – an exercise in intensified social control
China: Coronavirus – an exercise in intensified social control 24/1/20: “As of today, the state has essentially quarantined an area estimated to encompass 35 million people—a population greater than...
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14th Russian-Turkish war?
Turkish army artillery arrives in the east of Idlib, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Eight school facilities bombed in Idlib province, 25th February Text received from A.: At the moment, the tension...
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This video from 7/9/19 shows how the cops in Hong Kong are using British commanders to organise more or less ‘softly softly’ riot control against protesters. “We’re outside the Mong Kok police...
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Ecuador – October 2019
Proletarians show Lenin what is to be done: A police vehicle burns during a protest against Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures in Quito, October 7, 2019 14/10/19: President forced...
View ArticleHong Kong – the kindness of strangers – 7/10/19
7/10/19: Report on the spread of solidarity and the kindness of strangers Report about October 1st on how whole neighbourhood helped protesters escape cops and teargas, inviting them into their flats,...
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