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Analysis: End of the road for Hong Kong's democratic dream as China 'improves' its voting system Read full article March 5, 2021, 8:37 a.m.·4 min read FILE PHOTO: Hong Kong and Chinese national flags are flown behind a pair of surveillance cameras outside the Central Government Offices in Hong Kong By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ever since Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, opposition activists have tried to bring full democracy to the city, believing that China would live up to its promise to one day allow universal suffrage to elect the city's leader. On Friday, th...

The city’s election system appears set for a shake-up. But the reforms will be made in Beijing - not Hong Kong - and will turn back the clock on the progress already made.

The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy. A composite photograph of South Carolina's majority-black legislature created and circulated by opponents of Reconstruction (Library of Congress) From the Southern strategy of the 1960s to Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election, it is easy to trace the Republican Party’s decades-long descent into racial authoritarianism. Despite the preside...

It took the agitation of a nation: the road to women’s suffrage. “We have learned that our work must be upon long lines. We who have toiled up the steps of the Old Capitol only to see our bills defeated upon final vote. We who took our baby boys with us to those early meetings, now find these boys are voters, while their mothers are still asking for freedom. We only hope that the next generation of women may find their work made easier because we have trodden the path before them.” – Mary Jane Whitely Coggeshall Like many social movements, the right for women to gain the v...

With police the opposition's landslide victory is being seen as a clear rejection of lam's handling of the on breast voter turnout topped 70 percent higher than any poll in the territories history. and earlier we spoke with charlotte charleston pil who is in hong kong. we've just been at another protest here another lunchtime protests in the shopping center just behind me minutes ago this was absolutely filled with people of all ages singing and singing some of the slogans the chants all of these hong kong protests calling for the 5 dumond's the demands including universal suffrage and an inde...