Social Media Ideas for 1989 Democracy Movement

Pingtung concert to celebrate Taiwan’s democracy

Tiananmen Is Not Just China’s Story

The 1989 crackdown reinforced a political order that made independent worker organizing nearly impossible. The effects have been felt across the global economy.

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Hidden for Decades: Restored Tiananmen Footage Offers Unfiltered View of June 4

The rare recordings capture student protesters, ordinary citizens, military deployments, and candid interviews that offer an unfiltered view of one of the most consequential events...

A Chinese Law Student Who Joined the 1989 Tiananmen Hunger Strike Recalls the Six Weeks That Led to the Massacre

Beijing students took to the streets within days of Hu Yaobang’s death On April 15, 1989, Hu Yaobang died. Hu had served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party before...

Taiwan Celebrates 30 Years of First Direct Presidential Elections With Star-Studded Lineup

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Taiwan’s first direct presidential election and the Taiwanese administration is marking the occasion through a special, star-studded concert...

Zhao Ziyang’s Fall Was Complete a Year Before Tiananmen

Deng Xiaoping's reckless 1988 price gamble destroyed China's reform architect.

Kampf um Demokratie: In Osteuropa ist gerade Frühling, liebe Linke

Osteuropäische Gesellschaften gehen in Massen auf die Straße gegen Korruption und Naturzerstörung. Sie haben mehr von uns verdient als Lobbyisten. mehr...

37th Anniversary Of ‘June 4th’ Commemorated At Chinese Embassy In Washington

According to The Epoch Times, to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the “June 4th” pro-democracy movement, several groups including the Chinese Students and Scholars Federation (o...

President says 1980 pro-democracy spirit revived in resistance to 2024 martial law declaration

President Lee Jae Myung said that the spirit of the Gwangju pro-democracy movement lives on and was revived in 2024 through peaceful public protests that helped overturn the imposi...

Zhao Ziyang’s Five Proposals Terrified the CCP Elite and Sealed His Fate

On May 16, 1989, the five proposals that Zhao Ziyang placed before his Politburo Standing Committee colleagues set off a sequence of events that ended in tanks on the streets of Be...

China: No Justice for Tiananmen Massacre 37 Years On

Click to expand Image University students dance during the pro-democracy demonstration i...

‘I Had Resolved to Die’: Former Peking University Student Recalls Tiananmen Crackdown

In an exclusive interview, Li recounts writing a farewell letter before joining a hunger strike, witnessing armed troops surround the Monument to the People's Heroes, spending six...

Myanmar’s revolution just grew up

In every revolution, there is a moment when a movement stops being a protest and becomes a project. For the American colonies, that moment came not in 1776 but in 1787, when 13 qua...

Hong Kong: No Safety in Exile

LONDON, June 19 (IPS) - When performance artist Sammu Chen tried to tie a red thread to a streetpost, plainclothes police stopped him before he could finish. Chen has twice been d...

Tiananmen Survivor Speaks in Toronto on 37th Anniversary, Calls on World to Stand With the Imprisoned

Zhou Fengsuo, executive director of Human Rights in China and a student leader who was present at Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3 to 4, 1989, delivered the following addres...

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