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-...

"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-...

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

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-...

Tomorrow. Come learn from a leading historian of Kashmir, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal

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...

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...

“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...

"[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...

"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-...

"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...

"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...

“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...

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

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...

All out for Palestine on Nakba Day. Find a city near you: (via @palyouthmvmt.bsky.social)

All out for Palestine on Nakba Day. Find a city near you: (via @palyouthmvmt.bsky.social)

“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.”

"These zines have become a key avenue through which Sinophone communities have educated and organized each other about Palestine. They're also an important historical record of international solidarity, anti-war, and anti-imperialist activism in the Sinosphere." lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...

Other ways to donate include: paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid") account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid")

From Sameer Project on x: "Approximately 65,000 children are severely malnourished in the Gaza Strip according to the most recent data. We continue to do the best we can to serve Palestinians across the Strip. Support us here: chuffed.org/project/help...

"These zines have become a key avenue through which Sinophone communities have educated and organized each other about Palestine. They're also an important historical record of international solidarity, anti-war, and anti-imperialist activism in the Sinosphere." lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...

Solidarity with Palestine exists in Asia and its many diasporas. We have archived zines from various Sinophone collectives that counter Zionist arguments and insist on uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Links for access and distribution below: lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...

Solidarity with Palestine exists in Asia and its many diasporas. We have archived zines from various Sinophone collectives that counter Zionist arguments and insist on uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation. Links for access and distribution below: lausancollective.com/2025/palesti...

"It is rare for Hong Kong’s art workers to be recognized on a grand international platform. To speak the truth on such a platform about the oppression of marginalized peoples shows an unyielding sense of courage." lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...

"I feel more comfortable with saying that our space is a space of encounter... which also consists of us going to the countryside to defend farmland, or going inside the docks to meet dockworkers. We want to encounter real life." lausancollective.com/2021/buildin...

"I feel more comfortable with saying that our space is a space of encounter... which also consists of us going to the countryside to defend farmland, or going inside the docks to meet dockworkers. We want to encounter real life." lausancollective.com/2021/buildin...

"It is rare for Hong Kong’s art workers to be recognized on a grand international platform. To speak the truth on such a platform about the oppression of marginalized peoples shows an unyielding sense of courage." lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...

At this year's Berlinale, Hong Kong director Jun Li celebrated the premiere of his film Queerpanorama by reading a Palestine solidarity letter by Iranian actor Erfan Shekarriz, which the Berlinale suppressed. Read HK Anti-War Mobilization's statement here: lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...

At this year's Berlinale, Hong Kong director Jun Li celebrated the premiere of his film Queerpanorama by reading a Palestine solidarity letter by Iranian actor Erfan Shekarriz, which the Berlinale suppressed. Read HK Anti-War Mobilization's statement here: lausancollective.com/2025/solidar...

A $1,000 matching campaign for the Sameer Project, from a donor calling on fellow academics who draw paychecks from universities complicit in genocide, to contribute. $1,000 will become $2,000 w/your contributions open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

Since stripping the region of its autonomy in 2019 and declaring quasi-martial law, India has only deepened its militarized, colonial rule of Kashmir. This is the backdrop of the region's current conflict. We continue to be in solidarity with Kashmir.

Since stripping the region of its autonomy in 2019 and declaring quasi-martial law, India has only deepened its militarized, colonial rule of Kashmir. This is the backdrop of the region's current conflict. We continue to be in solidarity with Kashmir.

“It makes a massive difference when everybody involved is able to get together and sit down to have a hot and substantial meal filled with nutrients before having a standoff against bailiffs, security guards and cops in the sun”

Black Window was an integral part of the Sham Shui Po community as well as the broader autonomous/anarchist milieu in Hong Kong. Read our wide-ranging 2021 interview with them here: lausancollective.com/2021/buildin...

While we disagree with them on many issues, we condemn the Senate's bipartisan McCarthyist targeting of CodePink, People's Forum and Qiao Collective for their critiques of US imperialism. Such McCarthyism then as now is wielded to distract from the US' own wide-ranging violence.

While we disagree with them on many issues, we condemn the Senate's bipartisan McCarthyist targeting of CodePink, People's Forum and Qiao Collective for their critiques of US imperialism. Such McCarthyism then as now is wielded to distract from the US' own wide-ranging violence.

Black Window was an integral part of the Sham Shui Po community as well as the broader autonomous/anarchist milieu in Hong Kong. Read our wide-ranging 2021 interview with them here: lausancollective.com/2021/buildin...

March 2020 1/ Why Hong Kong's Protests Last w/ JP from Lausan Collective @lausanhk.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/34957381

THIS THURSDAY: Register below for this talk by organizer and independent researcher JM Wong on "Legacies of Asian Diasporic Radicalisms: Transpacific Chinese Labor organizing in 1920s San Francisco Chinatown & Lessons for Today" events.berkeley.edu/aarc/event/2...

Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has entered the Hong Kong market as "Keeta," pushing out rival Deliveroo. Read our translation of a Hong Kong delivery worker's first-hand account of how this increasing industry competition is eroding workers' rights: lausancollective.com/2025/deliver...

THIS THURSDAY: Register below for this talk by organizer and independent researcher JM Wong on "Legacies of Asian Diasporic Radicalisms: Transpacific Chinese Labor organizing in 1920s San Francisco Chinatown & Lessons for Today" events.berkeley.edu/aarc/event/2...