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Against Beijing tyranny: workers solidarity Submitted by AWL on 1 June, 2021 - 3:10
June 4 2021 marks 32 years since the Chinese state’s massacre of hundreds or thousands of pro-democracy protesters around Tiananmen Square. Workers’ Liberty will join the vigil in London to commemorate the movement and its bloody suppression, and to re-affirm our solidarity with everyone still struggling today for the liberation sought by the 1989 movement.
Repression
Today, the Chinese “Communist” Party (CCP) continues to brutally repress the people under the rule of its dictatorial party-state.
Its economy is characterised by rampant exploitation of workers and peasants for the profits of big capitalists and state bureaucrats. Wealth inequality approaches that of the USA. The state-backed trade union almost never supports workers in disputes, instead serving the CCP and employers. Independent trade unions are illeg
May 19, 2021
published at 1:45 AMReuters
Medical staff transfer a patient suspected as a Covid-19 case at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong.
Reuters
Hong Kong’s plans to let non-locally trained doctors practise in the city to tackle a shortfall of medical staff in the public sector moved forward on Tuesday (May 18), with the bill to be read in the legislature on June 2.
Health Secretary Sophia Chan said Hong Kong faces a serious shortage of doctors compared with international standards, and the crunch was expected to severely deteriorate in the medium term. The per capita doctor ratio is two doctors per 1,000 people, compared with other economies.we are lagging far behind, Chan told a news conference.