Wukan Wukan ! No to Land Grabs in China

The following video below is a short version of the Chinese Film on Wukan above with English Translation and subtitles.



Timeline for Wukan Struggle

1993: Wukan Hong Kong Industrial Development Co., Ltd. is established; The Wukan government begins selling village land.

April 3rd, 2009: A leaflet appears in Wukan village entitled, “A letter to fellow townsfolk of Wukan — We’re not ‘Dead Village Slaves.’” More village land is sold, the village government alters the elections as the majority of the villagers discuss the issue of the leaflet.

April 3rd, 2009: More than 20 young people from Wukan travel to petition Guangdong provincial government leaders, soon arriving in Guangzhou’s Zhongshan Park to plan the formation of the “Wukan Hotblooded Youth Group.” The group members go on to petition eleven provincial, city, county-level city, and small-town governments.

March 14th, 2011: Five Wukan village representatives take their sixth petition to the Guangdong Provincial Complaints Bureau, then decides to send a specific delegate to seek audience for the purpose of developing collective representation.

September 21st, 2011: Three thousand villagers gather in Wukan (a coastal town on the East China Sea in Lufeng County, Shanwei Prefecture, Guangdong Province) to discuss a series of problematic incidents in the area. They collectively petition the Lufeng County Government, inquiring about arrangements regarding Jade Laurel Garden (Bi Gui Yuan). As they return home, a group of villagers numbering around a dozen smash a group of Jade Laurel Garden workers’ dormitories and some materials belonging to the Tranquil Industrial Park (Tai Gongye Yuan). That evening  three youths from Wukan are arrested by the local police.

September 22nd, 2011: Wukan villagers convene a village committee to confront the problems, but the local police arrive and intervene. Soon afterwards, three to four hundred municipal police enter Wukan. A clash between the police and the people breaks out around Jin Gang street and Xinhua Fourth Road, causing over 10 people to be heavily injured and resulting in 12 police and government vehicles damaged or even flipped.

September 23rd, 2011: Thirteen self-appointed village delegates have discussions with city government officials. The government promises to abolish the villagers’ debt, return land, and to elect three special groups to enter the village and conduct an investigation.

September 28th, 2011: The Wukan village committee organizes elected representatives to go to the National People’s Congress, the villagers call into question the [earlier] illegal elections.

November 11th, 2011: Four thousand villagers provide signatures and march to the Lufeng Municipal Government with their petition. Lufeng Mayor Qiu Jinxiong personally appears to address the demands and urges the protestors to return home.

Xue Jinbo - Martyr of Wukan

The residents’ democratically elected village leaders said they had managed to extract initial concessions from senior provincial leaders to their immediate demand for the government to release three villagers detained in recent weeks.

They also received a promise of a full investigation into the death in police custody of village leader Xue Jinbo on December 11, the return of his body and a guarantee that elected village leaders would not be considered criminals.

“They gave a positive response to our suggestions and agreed to release our three young people within two days,” said Lin Zuluan, a village representative.

Picture Yang Semao 

Guangdong's deputy Communist Party secretary Zhu Mingguo told Wukan village protest leader Yang Semao on Wednesday that four villagers being held by police would be released over the next few days, Yang told The Associated Press.

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Publication does not mean we agree with all the comments of Harpal Brar - but we certainly support North Korea against the puppet regime in South Korea and against US Imperialist intervention in the Korean Peninsular.

We wish the Korean People success in their struggle for unification and socialism.

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"After 10 months of trying to cloak their power in civilian robes, Egypt’s military rulers made clear Monday that they are governing by martial law alone." New York Times

"After 10 months of trying to cloak their power in civilian robes, Egypt’s military rulers made clear Monday that they are governing by martial law alone." New York Times

Egypt activists call for Friday ‎demo against military rule Following latest round of violence and state repression of protesters, 19 political groups issue calls for million-man Tahrir Square demo on Friday to protest ongoing SCAF rule

Nineteen different political and cultural movements released a statement on Monday calling for a million-man march in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday, 23 December, to protest military rule. The various groups are urging all factions to set aside their political differences and rally under the single slogan, “Down with military rule.”

The statement stressed that the aim of the proposed Friday demonstration was to “regain the nation’s honour,” which had been tarnished by the military following the February departure of longstanding president Hosni Mubarak.

Thirteen civilians have been killed so far and more than 500 injured following four days of clashes outside Egypt’s Cabinet building in downtown Cairo between security forces and protesters who demand an end to military rule.

The statement condemned what it described as “lies” by Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), adding that – despite video footage clearly depicting crimes perpetrated by military personnel – the SCAF had continued to deny responsibility for its actions and blame ongoing violence on a “third party.”

Activists, for their part, hold the SCAF responsible for the mounting death toll outside the Cabinet building, accusing military personnel of starting a fire that partially destroyed a nearby scientific institute housing tens of thousands of rare manuscripts.

The call for the Friday demonstrations was jointly issued by the Democratic Front for Peaceful Change; the Arab Revolutionary Youth movement; the Revolutionary Artists Coalition; the Maspero Youth Coalition; the National Council for Popular Committees; the Egyptian Front for Culture and Change; the Coalition of Revolutionary Forces; the Free Revolutionary Movement; the National Salvation Front; the Youth for the Independence of Al-Azhar movement; the Maspero Media Revolutionaries; the National Agreement; the Suez Youth Bloc; the Alexandria Revolution Board of Trustees; the Youth of the Square movement; the Matrouh Youth Movement for Change; the Revolutionary Popular Front; and the January 25 Coalition.

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Egyptian Army confiscate Journalists cameras to hide their crimes

Video evidence of many people being brutally beaten are not available because the Army -- right after that raid -- entered the offices of most media outlets surrounding the square and confiscated equipment," says Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous, reporting from Cairo.

Kouddous says the military confiscated two of his cameras, and he also saw them take cameras from Al Jazeera reporters. "This was a clampdown on information, on trying to prevent these kinds of pictures from emerging."

The police attacks have overshadowed the first parliamentary elections since former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February.