Is abolishing the same as defunding? Does either one mean the police have been defeated? What does it mean when liberals start saying abolishing the police isn't all that scary? A socialist take on an exciting set of slogans.
Forty years ago, a protest against authoritarian rule in South Korea became an uprising. Hundreds of thousands of protesters battled government troops in the streets. The legacy of the uprising is still contested today.
Ben Hillier was on the ground during the explosive 2019 protests and university occupations in Hong Kong, and again as a new coronavirus, first detected in Wuhan, China, began to spread through the city in early 2020.
Journalists and policy researchers daydream about a new, more ethical and sustainable post-coronavirus world. But powerful forces will fight to stop a better world emerging, as they always have.
