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4 June 2021: Tiananmen Commemoration & Vigil

For democratic & workers’ rights in Hong Kong, Tibet, Uyghur Region and across China

PROTEST 5 MAY: Free the Uyghur people, welcome refugees here

6pm Monday 5 MayEmbassy of China, 49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JLMapFacebook event

Jacobin: Interview with Sean R. Roberts, author of “The War on the Uyghurs”

We strongly recommend checking out today’s interview with Sean R. Roberts in US-based radical left magazine Jacobin. Roberts is the author of the recent book The War on the Uyghurs. In the interview, he puts the ongoing persecution in the context of settler colonialism and War On Terror anti-Muslim racism – and calls for grassrootsContinue reading “Jacobin: Interview with Sean R. Roberts, author of “The War on the Uyghurs””

Solidarity: “Xinjiang: the UN report that wasn’t”

Even by the standards of the Morning Star — a publication whose coverage of anything to do with China is now little more than Beijing propaganda — Kate Woolford’s article on 13 April was an extraordinary exercise in dissembling whataboutery.

Recognise the genocide, but don’t rely on the superpowers

Photo of the UK Houses of Parliament taken from across the River Thames

This Thursday 22 April, Parliament will vote on a motion recognising that the persecution of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and the other indigenous peoples of Xinjiang (East Turkestan) constitutes genocide and crimes against humanity.

Message of support from 左回声 Left Echo, Leipzig, Germany

左回声 Left Echo is a collective based in Leipzig, Germany, campaigning to build solidarity with emancipatory struggles in China. They have sent us the message of solidarity below, to be read out on their behalf at our 5 April protest. They and Nationalismus ist keine Alternative (Sachsen) will be demonstrating Saturday 17 April at 14:00Continue reading “Message of support from 左回声 Left Echo, Leipzig, Germany”

PROTEST 5 APRIL: Free the Uyghur people, welcome refugees here

6pm Monday 5 AprilEmbassy of China, 49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JLMapFacebook event

MEETING: “China, Hong Kong and the Uyghurs: solidarity motion launch for Labour 2021”

We have teamed up with our friends in Labour Movement Solidarity With Hong Kong to write a motion for the Labour Party’s 2021 conference – China, Hong Kong & the Uyghurs: solidarity, peace, democracy & liberation. This week, Momentum members have the opportunity to vote in a policy primary for Momentum to support it. So please join us to hearContinue reading “MEETING: “China, Hong Kong and the Uyghurs: solidarity motion launch for Labour 2021””

Solidarity: “Report finds genocide against the Uyghurs”

One of our activists has written (in a personal capacity) for socialist newspaper Solidarity about the recent report that found the Chinese state responsible for acts of genocide against the Uyghur people:

Solidarity from the National Education Union to Uyghur women and the Uyghur people

Thanks to the National Education Union and its General Secretaries, Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, for making a statement of solidarity with the Uyghur people and particularly Uyghur women, against Chinese state violence & persecution. The NEU organises more than half a million workers in UK schools and colleges.