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· Nov 13
11 most-read articles of 2020 - Lausan
Revisit 11 articles from 2020 that tracked the seismic shifts in our global reality.
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Hello to our new followers! Here's a "starter pack" of some of our past articles, if you're new to our magazine:
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Important read at a time that many in Taiwan have, unfortunately, failed to stand in solidarity with Palestinians
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
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August 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Important read at a time that many in Taiwan have, unfortunately, failed to stand in solidarity with Palestinians
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Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
lausancollective.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
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"Narratives that once stirred my solidarity now compel my accountability, because I have since learned how stories of righteousness can be used to rationalize dispossession."
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
lausancollective.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Narratives that once stirred my solidarity now compel my accountability, because I have since learned how stories of righteousness can be used to rationalize dispossession."
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Pingpu Indigenous and Han Taiwanese Solidarity with Palestine - Lausan
Zionism for many Palestinians is a story of colonization told through the language of "liberation."
lausancollective.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Read this reflection by Taiwanese American organizer and writer Leona Chen on how her Indigenous Pingpu heritage has helped to shape her solidarity with Palestinians: lausancollective.com/2025/pingpu-...
Check out this new platform launched by Chinese international graduate workers, which includes resources from Chinese diaspora workers’ participating in contract bargaining and strikes as well as travel security tips for international workers: grad-unions.say.vc
August 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Check out this new platform launched by Chinese international graduate workers, which includes resources from Chinese diaspora workers’ participating in contract bargaining and strikes as well as travel security tips for international workers: grad-unions.say.vc
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June 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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There's also a simmering unemployment crisis in China, youth unemployment most acutely, part and parcel of capitalist world-systemic pressures. The latest figure is 16.9% urban youth unemployment (!!), with rural youth likely higher. Read more here: heatwavemag.info/blog/chuang-...
June 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
There's also a simmering unemployment crisis in China, youth unemployment most acutely, part and parcel of capitalist world-systemic pressures. The latest figure is 16.9% urban youth unemployment (!!), with rural youth likely higher. Read more here: heatwavemag.info/blog/chuang-...
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Tomorrow. Come learn from a leading historian of Kashmir, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal
‼️We are excited to announce that Hafsa Kanjwal will teach a workshop, KASHMIR'S FREEDOM STRUGGLE on June 12th. Come learn from the author of COLONIZING KASHMIR: STATE-BUILDING UNDER INDIAN OCCUPATION.
To sign up, donate to the Sameer Project and sign up below:
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/kas...
To sign up, donate to the Sameer Project and sign up below:
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/kas...
June 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Tomorrow. Come learn from a leading historian of Kashmir, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal
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Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
How China is helping to facilitate Israel's illegal settlements - Lausan
China's proclamations of support for Palestine cover up its complicity in Israeli settlement building
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June 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
How China is helping to facilitate Israel's illegal settlements - Lausan
China's proclamations of support for Palestine cover up its complicity in Israeli settlement building
lausancollective.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...
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Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter?
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong - Lausan
Hongkongers' relationship to the June 4 vigil and the memory of Tiananmen Square have rapidly evolved in the past decade. We speak with a Hong Kong leftist about this change.
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June 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter?
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
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“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
Repressing the rebel workers of Tiananmen Square - Lausan
Worker radicalism has always unsettled the authority of one-party rule, from the Cultural Revolution through to Tiananmen
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
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"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social
lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
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When communists crushed the international workers' movement - Lausan
It is only by placing the massacre at Tiananmen in its true context that we can begin to untangle the underlying changes in the nature of the working class.
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social
lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
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"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
Reform or revolution: The strengths and setbacks of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement - Lausan
Despite its temporary failure, the magnificent 1989 pro-democracy movement has immense historical significance.
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June 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
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"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
Against US imperialism's cooptation of Tiananmen - Lausan
We must continue to challenge the use of social movements in China to reinforce the dangerous fiction that the key global struggle today is one between a Western democratic political order against the...
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
Against US imperialism's cooptation of Tiananmen - Lausan
We must continue to challenge the use of social movements in China to reinforce the dangerous fiction that the key global struggle today is one between a Western democratic political order against the...
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"The Tiananmen workers modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals and the US establishment. The workers called for a radical transformation of our political and economic structures." lausancollective.com/2023/against...
"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
Reform or revolution: The strengths and setbacks of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement - Lausan
Despite its temporary failure, the magnificent 1989 pro-democracy movement has immense historical significance.
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Although the 1989 pro-democracy movement temporarily failed, it shattered various reformist illusions and made people determined to be their own masters." lausancollective.com/2022/reform-...
"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social
lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
When communists crushed the international workers' movement - Lausan
It is only by placing the massacre at Tiananmen in its true context that we can begin to untangle the underlying changes in the nature of the working class.
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"[6/4] caused a wave of outrage that... revealed the powerlessness of the liberal intelligentsia in the face of global capital. China would be seamlessly integrated into this international order when it was allowed to join the WTO in 2001." @miawong.bsky.social
lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
lausancollective.com/2021/communi...
“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
Repressing the rebel workers of Tiananmen Square - Lausan
Worker radicalism has always unsettled the authority of one-party rule, from the Cultural Revolution through to Tiananmen
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Most importantly, 'democracy' as understood by workers was different from the liberal notion embraced by students and intellectuals; it was a distinctly socialist vision of democracy premised on the agency of the working class." lausancollective.com/2021/repress...
Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter?
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong - Lausan
Hongkongers' relationship to the June 4 vigil and the memory of Tiananmen Square have rapidly evolved in the past decade. We speak with a Hong Kong leftist about this change.
lausancollective.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hong Kong 6/4 memorials are still illegal. Why does that matter?
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
"After 1989, Hong Kong became the only place in China to commemorate June 4 publicly... a decades-long history of solidarity with mainland activists can’t be swept away so simply." lausancollective.com/2021/why-tia...
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Four years ago I wrote a piece about Tiananmen and the international workers movement for @lausanhk.bsky.social. Three years ago I expanded it into a pair of episodes for It Could Happen Here. Now they return in the hands of a New Mia with a new name and a new gender
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
New It Could Happen Here
@miawong.bsky.social revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
@miawong.bsky.social revisits her episodes situating the Tiananmen Square Massacre in the context of the century long battle over democracy in the workplace.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
June 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Four years ago I wrote a piece about Tiananmen and the international workers movement for @lausanhk.bsky.social. Three years ago I expanded it into a pair of episodes for It Could Happen Here. Now they return in the hands of a New Mia with a new name and a new gender
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
For more on the current struggle of food delivery workers after Chinese e-commerce giant Keeta entered the Hong Kong market in 2023: lausancollective.com/2025/deliver...
May 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
For more on the current struggle of food delivery workers after Chinese e-commerce giant Keeta entered the Hong Kong market in 2023: lausancollective.com/2025/deliver...
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May 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
May 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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“But this myopic fixation on Pakistani interference erases a fundamental truth: the resistance in Kashmir is indigenous, born of humiliation, violence, and the unfulfilled promise of self-determination.”
The international community could have nipped this in the bud with the first missiles India dropped in Pakistani cities on Wednesday when they killed 31 people.
No one spoke up.
No one called Modi to stop.
No one mediated.
Are they waiting for worse??
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250502-kas...
No one spoke up.
No one called Modi to stop.
No one mediated.
Are they waiting for worse??
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250502-kas...
Kashmir and the spectacle of manufactured crises
It was an old script, dusted off and recycled with all the subtlety of a Bollywood B-movie plot: an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir—tragic, condemnable, and as predictable as...
www.middleeastmonitor.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
“But this myopic fixation on Pakistani interference erases a fundamental truth: the resistance in Kashmir is indigenous, born of humiliation, violence, and the unfulfilled promise of self-determination.”