International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

‘We're witnessing a fundamental political realignment'

Ben Hillier, Mike Davis — 2021-01-25T07:14:44Z

“There's been no other country — certainly no European country, or Australia, New Zealand or Canada — that has seen such a powerful resurgence of the left, or one that is so solidly, generationally specific and anchored. And of course, youth of colour, the coming plurality of the American population, played a central role in this — particularly the Black women who built Black Lives Matter.”

- IV552 - January 2021 / United States (USA)

Why â€˜Generation Catastrophe' is rising up

Ben Hillier — 2019-11-23T09:36:45Z

There's a construction boom in Hong Kong, but no-one is getting paid to build the barricades everywhere around town. The youth insurrection is not only the biggest uprising in China since the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, it is one of the most explosive student radicalisations of modern times. The depth of their rage, and willingness to risk everything in a fight that most think they can't win, is almost beyond words. “Unrelenting” is the closest approximation.

- IV538 - November 2019 / China, Hong Kong