On July 4, 2024, Platypus Affiliated Society member Desmund Hui and Griffith Jones interviewed Au Loong Yu, a longtime Hong Kong labor-rights activist and author of Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China (2020). Griffith Jones, formerly of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.) and the Nicaragua Information Committee, has worked in Hong Kong and China since 1996. An edited transcript follows.

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On January 7, 2023, prompted by recent protests in China, the Platypus Affiliated Society held a panel on China and the Left. The panelists included Conrad Hamilton (PhD at Université Paris 8), Griffith Jones (formerly of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.)), David McMullen (simplymarxism.com, a self-described “unreconstructed Maoist,” formerly of Red Eureka Movement), and Anthony Monteiro (Saturday Free School, Philadelphia).

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