N30: Stateless In Seattle
Fifty thousand on the streets, thirty thousand of them trade unionists... the WTO meeting abandoned... declaration of martial law... clouds of tear gas and volleys of rubber bullets... dockers shutting down West Coast ports from Seattle to San Pedro... hang on, we thought the class war was dead?!
From Black Flag #219, 2000.
The Chinese democratic uprising, 1989
Submitted by Steven. on May 7 2017 17:04
A detailed account of the national uprising for democracy which swept China in 1989 and was crushed after the Tiananmen Square massacre, written by George Katsiaficas.
The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life - George Katsiaficas
Katsiaficas develops a new theory of freedom and autonomy that redefines the parameters of the political itself.
China's 1989 in a world of uprisings
Submitted by Anonymous on May 11 2014 20:16
Introduction and chapter 5 of Asia's Unknown Uprisings (Volume 2) by George Katsiaficas. The introduction summarizes the sequence of "people power" movements throughout Asia from 1986 to 1998 in relation to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Chapter 5 recounts and analyzes China's "Democracy" Movement of 1989 (often known in English as "Tiananmen").
The Gwangju uprising, 1980
Submitted by Ed on Sep 19 2006 19:01
The history of the week-long uprising of the South Korean town of Kwangju against the regime of the West-backed dictator General Chun Doo-Hwan. Though it was bloodily suppressed it helped ignite a chain of similar rebellions across Asia, winning people many democratic rights.
