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Solidarity 583 Solidarity& Workers’ Liberty For social ownership of the banks and industry DROP CHARGES AGAINST HONG See page 2 Myanmar:KONG general What Russia’s REBELS Fight “business”, The great post strike strike against coup socialists are saying don’t partner with it of 1971 Workers central to the Rett Perera reports Keir Starmer’s attempt at How 200,000 post and fight back, despite heavy from Moscow on the an anti-Tory profile is a telecom workers struck for repression. movement against Putin. flop. 44 days, by Dave Chapple Page 3 Pages 7-8 Page 11 Pages 12-13 No. 583, 24 February 2020 50p/£1 workersliberty.org Drop charges against HK rebels! Editorial n 16 February, the trial started of seven democracy Oleaders in Hong Kong. Two others pleaded guilty. They are accused of organising an unauthorised assem- bly on 18 August 2019, when the Civil Front called a rally of 1.7 million people. Among the accused are Hong Kong trade union leader Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of the HKCTU (Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions); other left wing activists such as Leung Kwok Hung (“Long Hair”); and For now, China’s police-state union, the All China Feder- “pan-democratic” veterans such as the 82 year old Martin ation of Trade Unions, is welcomed at some international Lee. union gatherings. In the Morning Star, HK protests for de- The charges, unconnected with the new National Secu- mocracy have been denounced as riots, and evidence of rity Law (NSL) and relying instead on old British colonial forced labour of Uyghurs denied. law, carry possible sentences of five years. Yanis Varoufakis’s Progressive International and Jeremy The charging of Lee Cheuk Yan, an internationally re- Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project are silent on China. spected trade unionist for over 30 years, has triggered Yet, as John McDonnell said at the LSWHK rally on 30 protests from the trade union and labour movement. The January, the Chinese government is still sensitive to “rep- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) called for utational damage”, and the labour movement has the protests on 14 and 15 February. Labour MPs John Mc- power to cause that damage. Donnell, Nadia Whittome and Clive Lewis have written a Workers and socialists need to support the real inde- letter of protest, which was backed within a few days by pendent workers’ and democracy movement developing 36 other MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn. Labour Move- in Hong Kong, China and throughout South East Asia. ment Solidarity with Hong Kong (LMSWHK) has worked And it is down to us to do that. The Tories talk about with the MPs to get trade union leaders and activists to supporting democratic rights in HK, but on Sunday 21 sign up. When the trial started, the accused held a solidar- February, the Guardian reported a roundtable on 12 Feb- ity briefing outside the court. Lee denounced the repres- ruary at Downing Street. In that meeting Johnson referred sion and the defendants and their supporters concluded to himself as a “Sinophile” and said he wants to reactivate by chanting in solidarity with Myanmar workers. the “Economic and Financial Dialogue” and “China-UK The trial is expected to be over by Tuesday 2 March, Joint Trade and Economic Commission”, both suspended but it may be a month before verdict and sentence. The for now in response to China’s repression in the former judge, Amanda Woodcock, is authorised to deal with NSL UK colony of Hong Kong. cases by Carrie Lam: in other words, she is trusted by “Some of the businesses most active in China” were Beijing, so a “not guilty” verdict is unlikely in the District represented there, such as the Swire company, which runs Court. Defence expert witnesses have been refused the many businesses in Hong Kong such as the airline Ca- right to give evidence and many of the defence barristers’ thay Pacific. Swire was founded by the great-great-great- arguments have been ruled “out of order”. The case will grandfather of Hugo Swire, a Tory minister until 2019. The go to appeal at the High Court where defence arguments current chair of the company, Barnaby Swire, is a long about the police breaching the constitution have to be standing donor to the Party. heard. Like HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Jardine Matheson, A whole wave of other trials are taking place or about to Swire have supported the repression in Hong Kong. They start. On 22 February, 12 students arrested at the time of have sacked trade unionists who had supported the de- the police siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong mocracy protests and publicly declared their support for were rearrested and charged with rioting (again, under the National Security Law (NSL). British colonial law). Tenacity International was also there. They have just When, how, and if these trials will trigger renewed received planning permission to build another 30-floor protests in Hong Kong, it is difficult to say. There is wide- office tower in London. spread fear of the implications of the NSL (and of Covid: We have had months of rhetoric from the government case rates have been rising, or level, since late Novem- about opposing the wave of mass arrests in Hong Kong, ber). and the National Security Law (NSL) imposed on Hong But unions are still defiant. Winnie Yu, the chair of the Kong by the Beijing government in July 2020. Backtrack- health workers’ union HAEA was arrested and is being ing by Johnson, in deference to UK-HK big business, will threatened with the NSL. Yet her union has challenged create difficulties for the Tories, especially if the labour the government over the privacy of its Covid tracing app. movement speaks out. □ 2 @workersliberty fb.com/workersliberty workersliberty.org Myanmar: general strike against the coup! By Sacha Ismail • The British labour movement has not been particularly vocal about events in Myanmar. We should try to pull it t least two people were killed by Myanmar’s military into action, with more solidarity messages, photos, vid- Aon 22 February, as it was confronted by fresh mass eos, etc, as well support the Burmese trade unions’ ap- protests to overturn the coup it launched on 1 February. peals. There is now a steady flow of confirmed killings, as well We hope to carry interviews with labour movement ac- as unconfirmed reports of significantly larger numbers of tivists in Myanmar soon. Meanwhile, we would re-empha- deaths. sise two further important points. The army’s claims that it is only using rubber bullets As in many worker-led democracy struggles, there is a have been categorically disproved. wide gap between workers’ organisation and militancy The two latest dead are a young man and a teenage and the political forces likely to benefit if the movement boy. Half of Myanmar’s population are under 25 (three is victorious. The leadership of the National League for quarters under 40) and the protests seem dominated by Democracy is wretched, characterised in government young people. The regime’s attitude is surely summed since 2015 by neo-liberal economics, subservience to up by its public statement on the renewed, vast wave of the military, and indifference towards the suppression of demonstrations on 22 February: ethnic minorities. It worked to cover up and downplay the “It is found that the protesters have raised their incite- military’s genocidal drive against the Rohingya. ment towards riot and anarchy mob on the day of 22 Feb- Myanmar’s workers’ movement needs its own political ruary. Protesters are now inciting the people, especially voice. emotional teenagers and youths, to a confrontation path More immediately, a fundamental political test for the where they will suffer the loss of life.” democracy movement is its attitude to the country’s mi- The UN’s “special rapporteur” in Myanmar says that the nority peoples and in particular the Rohingya. There are 33rd Light Infantry Division was involved in the latest kill- hopeful signs that the struggle against the coup is gener- ings. It should be noted that this unit was central to the ating changes (see this article and the ones linked at the mass killings, rape and arson that drove the best part of a end bit.ly/cdmrohingya), but there is a catastrophic reality million Rohingya people out of Myanmar in 2017. and legacy to overcome. Activists are talking about 22.2.2021, referring to the Solidarity with Myanmar’s workers, democracy activists 8 August 1988 (8.8.88) uprising against the military, and and oppressed minorities! □ about a “five twos revolution’. Groups of police have now joined the protests and publicly demonstrated against the regime. The two protesters murdered were shot at a striking Upcoming meetings shipyard workers’ demonstration in the country’s second city, Mandalay. The role of workers — particularly young orkers’ Liberty meetings are open to all, held on- workers — and specifically working-class forms of action, Wline over zoom. including large-scale strikes in a very wide range of indus- Thursday 25 February, 6-8pm: Momentum Interna- tries, is extremely prominent in this struggle. tionalists — Labour, Hong Kong and the Uyghurs Talk about a general strike looks increasingly plausible. Sunday 28 February 7.30-9pm: Sex wars and (trans) Garment workers, whose industry accounts for 30% of gender panics Myanmar’s exports and who have fought sustained strug- Tuesday 2 March 6.30-8pm: Free Our Unions public gles over conditions and the right to organise over the meeting — Confronting anti-union laws last decade, pioneered workers’ mobilisation against the Tuesday 2 March 7.30-9pm: AWL Students — Battles coup.
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