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...
Several hundred demonstrated today against the continued existence of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial. In particular, demonstrators called for the dismantling of the memorial, with the view that Taiwan does not need a monument to an authoritarian dictator in the present day...
Tibetan Uprising Day was commemorated in Taipei on Saturday, March 7th outside of the Zhongxiao Fuxing SOGO. Tibetan Uprising Day is commemorated annually to memorialize a protest by around 10,000 Tibetans on March 10th, 1959 to demonstrate against the CCP’s annexation of Tibet. The protest was subsequently cracked down on by Chinese military forces. This year marked the 67th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day...
Yesterday marked the 79th anniversary of the 228 Massacre. often seen as the start of Taiwan’s White Terror. Yet close to eighty years later, one notes that Taiwan has in many ways failed to heed the lessons of 228—this in spite of Taiwan’s democratization...
Taiwanese civil society groups held a demonstration earlier this month to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar. At present, Myanmar remains locked in a civil war, with resistance forces of differing backgrounds clashing with the military junta...
A solidarity rally for protests in Iran was held today in Liberty Plaza. The protests began in December last year, against the theocratic and authoritarian Iranian government. Repression by the Iranian government has left tens of thousands dead. To date, it is estimated that 16,000 people have been killed, 19,000 arrested, and 330,000 injured...
With the protests that have broken out in Iran, one has seen all-too-typical reactions from those often referred to as tankies or campists. With the emergence of protests against an autocratic, theocratic regime that has positioned itself in opposition to the US, tankies and campists have been quick to denounce the protests as a US-orchestrated “color revolution.” Indeed, if the Trump administration carries out airstrikes or some other form of military intervention directed at the Iranian government, it is to be anticipated that tankies and campists will lean into this narrative all the more. This occurs even as some estimates have more than ten thousand dead as a result of brutal crackdowns in Iran...
In a rare case, there have been calls on President Lai Ching-te to pardon an eighty-year-old woman who killed her paralyzed son. This occurred apparently due to the burden of care, the woman having cared for him for over 50 years...
