We are now part of Workers Against the CCP!

The Uyghur Solidarity Campaign has now joined forces with other allies to become part of a new coalition, Workers Against the CCP! We will continue to fight for freedom for the Uyghur people, and we hope that by pooling our efforts with allies, we will be able to have an even greater impact. From now on, you will find the most up-to-date information via the WAC website and newsletter – we encourage you to follow the new initiative and get involved!

Call for a new campaign: workers’ solidarity against CCP repression

We are pleased to support this new initiative, to unite labour movement solidarity with all the struggles for emancipation, democracy and justice in China and the territories controlled by the Chinese state.

Labour Movement Solidarity with Hong Kong

The UK-based Labour Movement Solidarity with Hong Kong (LMSWHK) campaign proposes this draft platform for a new campaign – one in solidarity with the oppressed people and workers of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet & the Uyghur Region.

The LMSWHK thinks this is important for Hong Kong’s democratic and workers’ struggles as well as those of workers and oppressed people across the region. This is explained in our statement. The explosion of dissent across China, that originated in resistance and protest against the abuse of Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou’s “iPhone City” and the murderous neglect of Uyghurs in Urumchi, reminds us of the struggles, and the enormous potential power, of China’s workers and oppressed people.

We plan to organise an inaugural conference of the new campaign along with other sponsors in late March/ early April – most likely in London. The details of the inaugural conference will be decided…

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RMT AGM says: no to the oppression of the Uyghur people!

By Daniel Randall, RMT AGM delegate (personal capacity)

The recent Annual General Meeting of the National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport workers (RMT) took a strong stance in opposition to China’s oppression of the Uyghurs. The motion it passed overwhelmingly, submitted by my branch, RMT Bakerloo, described the oppression as “one of the worst human rights abuses ongoing in the world today”, and noted the class element of the oppression via the policy of forced labour. The motion situated support for Uyghur human rights in the tradition of workers’ action against injustice, and cited “Scottish factory workers who refused to repair jet engines for Pinochet’s regime, and dockers who have refused to load ships transporting munitions to Saudi Arabia.”

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Protest 5 Nov: Climate Justice & Uyghur Freedom!

Stop drilling fossil fuels on Uyghur land!
End forced labour in solar energy!

6pm Friday 5 Nov
Embassy of China, 49 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL
Map
Facebook event

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SOAS students launch campus Uyghur Solidarity Action Week: 11-15 October

By a student campaigner in SOAS Uyghur Solidarity Society

Students in SOAS Uyghur Solidarity Society have launched a week of action, calling on students and workers to join in the action on their respective campuses. Awareness has been growing amongst young people especially through online activism, and so this week aims to turn that awareness into concrete action, to reach out to others in the university community, and carry out public protests to draw attention to and put pressure on those complicit in the genocide. 

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China, Hong Kong & the Uyghurs: support our solidarity motion at Labour Party Conference

Thanks to East & South-East Asians for Labour (Labour’s official affiliated society for ESEA members), the solidarity motion drafted by us and Labour Movement Solidarity with HK has been submitted in full to Labour Party Conference! You can read it below. It is set to be merged with the Uyghur rights motion already submitted by Finchley & Golders Green Labour.

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