Student activism in Hong Kong points new movement
In face of accumulated contradictions of international capitalism, the present decade has witnessed the global increase of student political activism and also a thirst for social justice.
With the backdrop of a raising interconnected world, the international exchanges of the strategies and experiences by the student activists across the globe stimulate and reinforce a spirit of youthful idealism. This new moment challenges state authority as well as the market forces.
In Hong Kong, a survey of mission statements of the local university student unions unveils that most inherit a heritage of advocating for social justice. |
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