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Hong Kong workers back students against police attacks
By Roy Landersen
Vol. 83/No. 44
December 2, 2019
South China Morning Post/Nora Tam
While international media attention has focused on clashes between
students and riot police, thousands of office and other workers flooded
the streets in downtown Hong Kong in daily lunchtime actions. These
demonstrations in support of the protest movement, like the one above,
Nov. 8, have paralyzed much of the city. “Driven by anger at the
authorities’ response to massive protests,” the Hong Kong Free Press
said Nov. 16, “and guilt that the burden of defending democracy has
fallen on the city’s youth — a white-collar rebellion is rippling across
Hong Kong.”
The city government of the semi-autonomous financial hub, more and more
openly controlled by the oppressive regime in Beijing, has failed to
subdue five months of sometimes millions-strong mobilizations aimed at
greater political rights. Standing reality on its head, Hong Kong Chief
Executive Carrie Lam called the protesters “enemies of the people.” She
has denied permits for peaceful rallies while stepping up violent police
attacks on protests.
For the first time, thousands of college and high school students
occupied the five main university campuses Nov. 12. Many people gave
them supplies or shielded them from arrest, but four sites were
violently cleared by riot police. Protesters at Polytechnic University
in Kowloon held out, supporting barricades blocking the Cross Harbor
Tunnel to Hong Kong Island. “Yesterday, the students and protesters
tried to leave,” Daniel Chan reported to the Militant Nov. 18 from Hong
Kong. The police used tear gas and rubber bullets “to prevent them from
leaving” unless they submitted to arrest.
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