At the start of May, during Labor Day weekend, the right-wing Taiwan Solidarity Party (TSP, formerly known as the Taiwan Solidarity Union) held two rallies in Taipei to protest against migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia. The first rally, held in the morning before the Labor Day march, featured a man tabling with an SS insignia on his arm, and a student was arrested for throwing a water balloon at TSP chairwoman Chou, Ni-An (周倪安). The second rally, held the next day, which the TSP, working with the International Association of Family and Employers with Disabilities (IAFED, also known as Taiwan Employers Association), dubbed “employer’s day,” followed up with the physical assault of a counter protester by a man donning a TSP vest...
The Historic Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding convened on April 25–26 at Thomas Berry Place in Jamaica Estates, New York, bringing together Indigenous leaders, policymakers, scholars, and activists from around the world. The Summit was organized under the theme “Indigenous Leadership for Protecting People, Peace, and Planet,” highlighting the role of Indigenous leadership in responding to global crises. ...
Walaa Alqaisiya's paper in Middle East Critique, “Moving Beyond Imperialist Frameworks: The False Equivalence Between Palestine and Xinjiang”, proves a masterclass in a failure of solidarity. What is most distinctive about the paper is that the author is Palestinian, but rejects comparisons between Palestine and Xinjiang. Alqaisiya takes issue with such comparisons, as most famously ventured by Chinese dissident intellectual Wang Lixiong, who suggested in 2007 that Xinjiang would be treated by China much as the West Bank has been by Israel....
Racism against the prospect of introducing Indian migrant workers has again taken place in Taiwan. The prospect of Taiwan allowing India to become the fifth major country to provide blue-collar migrant work dates to 2023, when the Lai administration began negotiating with the Indian government to allow migrant workers...
A recent article by Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak in the Monthly Review proves another attempt by the campist left to whitewash the ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs by the Chinese government...
The Highway Bureau is reportedly considering recruiting international students and students of ethnic Han descent to fill positions as bus drivers, provided they speak intermediate-level Chinese. This continues the pattern of Taiwan opening up migrant worker categories for the so-called “3D”–“dirty, dangerous, and demeaning”–jobs that Taiwanese no longer want to take up themselves...
The Ministry of Labor has rolled out new regulations for internships in the hospitality industry. The regulations are framed as strengthening the labor rights for students, as well as ensuring that internships do not become de facto forms of employment...
