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A thread of resources on Anarchism in its relationship to anti-imperialist and decolonial struggles around the world. Every link should have free access, hope this proves useful to organizers and writers.
"Towards an Anarchist History of Anti-Imperialism" by Lucien van der Walt in Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
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Eric Andre signed the celebrity letter in support of Israel.
Mel b of spice girls saying margaret thatcher had girl power and then Eric Andre asking her if she thinks thatcher effectively utilized said Girl Power by funnelling money into illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland
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My local falafel shop understands anti-imperialist solidarity from below better than half the left:
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Thread of sources on Uyghurs oppression and concentration camps that cannot, by any sane person at least, be called western propaganda:.
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"Over population" is an argument for eugenics masked with environmentalism. It is eco-fascism and seemingly every liberal believes in it.
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Jordan Peele signed the celebrity letter in support of Israel.
Get Out (2017). dir. Jordan Peele. “By the way I would’ve voted for Obama for a third term if I could.”
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Taika Waititi signed the celebrity letter in support of Israel.
Two Indigenous filmmakers, Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, are smashing stereotypes of Native Americans with “Reservation Dogs,” a TV show debuting on FX on Hulu. All the writers, directors and regular characters on the half-hour comedy are Indigenous.
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Potentially losing one of the largest archives of human knowledge, and a freely accessible one at that, because of a copyright really shows how much copyright laws are a threat to human knowledge and culture.
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The Russian embassy claiming the maternity hospital they bombed was actually full of Nazis and the pregnant women seen fleeing it were just crisis actors is incredibly familiar to anyone who paid attention to the way war crimes denial played out in Syria.
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Im down with “kill your rapist” self defense is always justified. “kill your local rapist” on the other hand, is really not as clean cut as people who defend it like to think, especially in a country with a long and continuing history of lynching based on false rape allegations.
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This really blew up so I will add: . Free Palestine. Do BDS. Donate money to Palestinian organizations. Undermine the war machine, which uses Palestine as a testing ground. Oppose any normalization of apartheid, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
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Zionism is a perfect example of why liberation of an oppressed people cannot be realized in a state.
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I truly hope this moment forever separates Judaism from Zionism.
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@callmecapybara @notistotny Did you read it? It repeated disproven misinformation and blames Palestinian suffering in Gaza entirely on Hamas. The call to release the hostages (which Israel frankly seems uninterested in and the US isn’t in charge of) is just a veneer covering genocidal rhetoric.
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This is actually a perfect example of why abolishing work can’t be an individualistic thing in which you stop working while relying on the labor of others to maintain your lifestyle. In fact that already exists for the bourgeoisie.
A basic BASIC left-wing question about EVERYTHING should be this - who the fuck do you think will be doing the labour to make this dream possible?
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This continues to be an important piece considering it comes out of a large Marxist-Leninist party in the colonized world and challenges Marxist Leninists to actually be materialists here:
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@HatPurpleshift @triggafingr His Jewishness is irrelevant. Jewishness does not imply support for Israel.
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If you hate cops and like judges you don’t get it.
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This is an incredibly normal thing in other countries America is learning what having an even remotely active protest culture looks like. Good, about time.
Rioters in Louisville had a U-Haul on standby loaded up with supplies, and immediately geared up as soon as the Breonna Taylor decision was announced. People pretend these riots happen out of nowhere. They don't. They're well-coordinated and prepared.
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I can’t stand tankies. The way they bring right wing ideas into left spaces is really insidious. It often goes to the as far as outright genocide denial but is much more general as well. If the left can’t rid itself of Stalinism we are hopeless to fight fascism.
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Another reason it is wrong to use the Palestinian struggle to invalidate Uyghurs (besides being just a complete rejection of the concept of solidarity) is that China partners with Israel and has learned from the oppression of Palestians to exercise it against Uyghurs.
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Putin saying he is both “decommunizing” and “denazifying” Ukraine is a good example of how Russian propaganda (and state propaganda in general but the Russian state especially loves this kind of obfuscation and playing both sides) pushes different lines to different audiences.
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A powerful piece by Chinese communists on Uyghur oppression including discussion of the capitalist and settler colonial economic basis of the “People’s war on terror”
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Tankies literally cheering on Russian tanks crushing a workers movement in its periphery, again. “Why do they call us tankies, this is just anti-communism”.
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Elon musk’s company torturing monkeys in experiments feels like a good time to remind people that during the height of the war on terror people who disrupted animal abuse were placed in the FBI most wanted list and several green scare prisoners are still in prison.
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Ending doctor patient confidentiality for mental health is about the absolute fucking worst idea to come out of American liberalism in recent memory. The carceral logic behind it is fundamentally disturbing and frankly it is outwardly fascistic.
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The J20 defendants demonstrated that sticking together, not being a fucking snitch, using the trial to advance your message, and tactically fucking with the state at every opportunity is the best possible defense. Well done to you all. Solidarity is our biggest weapon.
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Zapatistas call for solidarity with the Atlanta forest defenders/Stop Cop city:
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In the US the desert is weaponized against migrants/refugees in Europe it is the sea:.
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Something that always strikes me about “how would you ____ under anarchism?” Is that is seems to assume that everyone who currently knows how to do it would vanish and could not themselves be part of the revolutionary process.
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From what I’ve seen so far the solidarity and anti-war statements from leftists in Russia and in Russia’s periphery (Lithuania, Georgia, Finland, etc) and of course in Ukraine are so much clearer about what is actually happening and the stakes than statements from the US/west EU.
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Let this happen to every border wall. Palestinians continue to inspire and lead those who fight for freedom everywhere.
Palestinian bulldozers are demolishing the smart-technology barrier at the Gaza border.
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From a historian of modern China and shared by decolonial leftists in Hong Kong analyzing the connections between the the Uyghur camps and global imperial and capitalist systems:
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Feels like a good time to remind people that the lavender scare was a thing. Specifically targeting queer teachers as pedophiles in order to chase them out of public life is nothing new, it is a long standing reactionary strategy.
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Connected to that last piece this book is helpful to understand the capitalist developmental logics of empire going back at least to the 16th century:
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I think it’s really telling that some leftists on here who seem to be exclusively posting content about fascists in Ukraine totally ignore shit like Neo-Nazi paramilitary leader Vladimir Zhoga fighting for and being honored by the Russian state:
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The US held Uyghurs in Gitmo based of Chinese reports in exchange for Chinese support for the war on terror and even let China interrogate them there.
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Journalists stop calling fascists anarchists challenge. The Nazis weren’t socialists either despite putting it in their name. This lack of critical analysis of the way they position themselves is to lend credibility to their propaganda. Do some basic research, damn.
ALERT: The front man of the heavy metal band “Iced Earth,” an anarchist with far-right extremist views is about to PLEAD GUILTY in US Capitol Insurrection. Accused of carrying bear spray and charging at police. STANDBY FOR UPDATES
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Do not agree to things like this:.
Breaking: Brown University reaches a deal with encampers. The encampers have agreed to clear encampment by 5p. In exchange the Brown Corp Board will vote on a divestment measure in October, among other concessions. Details TK.
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The strike is reemerging in the US and its a big fucking deal. All the kids seeing their teachers strike and win is a big fucking deal. The class war has only been fought in one direction here for far too long. It will take a lot to rebuild class consciousness but it is starting.
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I am glad to see the anarchist operation solidarity in Ukraine sharing information for African nationals trying to flee Ukraine on Instagram and explicitly rejecting the racism of Ukrainian police and border guards.
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Would be a good time (as it has already been) for any serious communist or genuine anti-imperialist to stop viewing Russian state media outlets like Sputnik and RT as anything but another State’s propaganda and definitely not as alternative, radical, or independent media.
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@IqraBooklover After seeing this I found out he went on birthright, preformed in Tel Aviv, and is an outspoken zionist.
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When the police craft a narrative that a mass shooter was a home owner so as to pretend he was acting in self defense the response shouldn’t be to appeal to legality saying “but they weren’t destroying property” it is to reject the notion that property is more valuable than life.
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Is it a “color revolution” or are you just physically incapable of seeing people of color as full revolutionary subjects with their own grievances, desires, and agency?.
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Here is a chinese state official favorably comparing their policies to Trump’s Muslim ban:
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Shared by Chuang this is a powerful piece by @dtbyler framing what apologists use to justify the camps as a reaction to and turning point in an ongoing colonial process using the perspectives of Uyghur, Han, and Kazakh people who were there:
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A system where a pandemic allows the richest man in the world to become a trillionaire should not be allowed to continue any further.
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Palestine really is a litmus test but not in the way some people mean it (that a good position on Palestine justifies whatever other horrible positions someone holds) but in that the threads of Palestinian oppression sew together the whole noxious world order.
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Leaked data on detentions (which the Chinese state has not challenged the legitimacy of) which used “ordinary activities such as praying, attending a mosque, or even growing a long beard” as cause for detention:
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“It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.” -Emma Goldman (1923).
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Tankies shifting to “anarchists think all political struggle should be fun” after people rightly reject their authoritarian and puritanical nonsense about banning drug users from political spaces is just muddying the water.
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This is footage of food not bombs Moscow getting arrested for protesting the war.
At least 829 detained at antiwar protests in Russia today. The numbers don't seem that impressive, but consider that people are coming out for the 4th day now despite facing almost certain arrest & having no way to coordinate or even gather in one spot
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Disney adults cheering a CEO assassin feels to me like a meaningful shift in popular culture's relationship to counter hegemonic violence.
During a Disney Channel-themed dance party in Boston on Friday, a DJ played Hannah Montana's "He Could Be the One" and flashed imagery of suspected killer Luigi Mangione, drawing cheers from the crowd.
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I appreciate that even when a self described libertarian-socialist who got his start in anarchist student organizations is elected to high office most anarchists urge caution and skepticism and continue a systemic critique.
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Kissinger really is a great example that “the historical unity of the ruling classes is realized in the state”.
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Here is an incredibly eugenicist graph from the Chinese state tracking The birthdate in Xinjiang compared to “voluntary” IUDs
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Reasons I care about the Uyghur genocide:.-it is a genocide (should be enough).-it relies on imperial logic and systems from the war on terror including the involvement of Blackwater’s Erik prince.-US firms are profiting off the camps and off of resource extraction in Xinjiang.
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The biggest victims of 9/11 were Afghans and Iraqis.
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Whoever thinks writing “cancel rent” on one of the wealthiest sitting politicians houses makes you “look bad” is telling on themselves.
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People do realize what the groomer allegations against queer people and especially trans women are right? Fascists literally using terms like “kill your local peodophile” to mobilize for it doesn’t give anyone pause?.
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Although “re-education” is frequently used by apologists if you actually read what the state says about it it is chilling (also includes discussion of the “strike hard against terror” campaign of the Chinese state):
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The originator of this hypothesis (Malthus) explicitly wrote it to counter the arguments of early (utopian) socialists, it's quite literally a counter revolutionary arguemnt, and one that both Marx and Kropotkin tore to shreds at least a century ago.
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Here is the chinese state celebrating the drop in birthrate in not even slightly vague eugenics:.
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If you want to claim be an abolitionist you should probably be suspicious of things like “common sense” gun laws.
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Now I will share pieces that share the chinese states own language and reports on the subject or witch complicate the narrative of who is benefiting from these camps (and talking about them) as presented by apologists.
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Anarchists shouldn’t support fascists who claim to be anarchists and communists shouldn’t support fascists who claim to be communists.
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Absolutely despicable that Nazis like Jackson Hinkle are able to build massive platforms by nominally supporting Palestine while actual Palestinians are banned.
Twitter is censoring the brilliant @m7mdkurd. The attack on Palestinian voices must end. Tell @X and @Support to reinstate his account NOW.
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And yeah this is why equating all Ukrainians with Nazis both does nothing to address the Nazi problem in Ukraine and also serves as official justification for absolute atrocities.
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Only praise I’ve seen for Kissinger so far comes from the CCP and ADL.
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That massive rally in Turkey, where Erdogan speaks against the bombing in Gaza (while actively bombing Kurds), must be recognized as a display of revanchist Turkish nationalism rather than a display of solidarity with Palestine. Just look at the flags:.
🇹🇷 Erdogan enters the stage to absolutely MASSIVE Istanbul rally in support of 🇵🇸 Gaza
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Justice would have been George Floyd still alive.
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On the involvement of Blackwater and Erik Prince (a private military contractor closely associated with the CIA and US war on terror) in the Xinjiang camps:
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Remember when half of left Twitter were posting shit like this? The year has hardly started but surely these will have to be in contention for the worst takes on here this year:.
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@JGH861 @AyoCaesar Workers made the shirts the only thing capitalism did was ensure their labor was exploited.
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I compiled the Uyghur oppression thread and a bunch more resources into a document format. Hopefully this will make it more accessible off twitter and easier to use as a resource:
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I've noticed white women consistently making memes about how those responsible for the abortion ban are all men. The Alabama bill was written by a women, and it was signed into law by a woman. Patriarchy isn't only maintained by men and powerful white women do plenty to uphold it.
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Always confused by self described radicals who see a radical or abolitionist proposal about something they are unfamiliar with or haven’t considered and respond by rejecting it out of hand. Seems to be much more of a conservative reaction than a radical one.
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Joe Biden is your enemy now.
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It then as of now obscures the reality of class society, blames the poor for their poverty, and ignores how the social reproduction of capitalism actually operates. It justifies massacres in the name of helping those who are supposedly too irresponsible to help themselves.
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Western leftists need to prioritize fighting the border (which has already been tightening in anticipation of the Russian invasion) and solidarity with refugees from Ukraine, we must learn from our mistakes and do a better job in this than we did for our Syrian comrades.
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I think it’s profoundly telling I’ve seen so many people respond to the abolish restaurants discourse saying “but what if I want to run a restaurant” but have seen literally no one say “but what if I want to work in one.” Kinda says it all to me.
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Israeli settlers are not civilians. Sorry not sorry. Anyone who claims they are I will not take seriously, you are completely divorced from the facts on the ground.
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Pretty much everyone overemphasizes the military aspect of revolution. Revolutions are not won by replacing which army controls the territory but by fundamentally reorganizing society.
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Imperialism as a global system is not threatened by multiple imperialists existing in competition (aka multipolarity). The modern imperial system was built in exactly those conditions.
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You who thinks slave uprisings are authoritarian? Slave owners.
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I think the underlying difference is that for those whose people have been subjected to versions of Russian imperialism directly Russian expansion is not an abstract force that is seen as a counter balance to western imperialism but a genuine & material threat to freedom itself.
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I’m truly horrified by the images out of Bucha. In a war already filled with atrocities this one appears to be another level entirely. But of course the disinformation campaign is already revving up, it is well past time to stop tolerating anyone willing to repeat it.
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I hate this shit. It’s so common from (white) western leftists but despite evoking Palestinians, it completely ignores their thoughts on the issue:
Don't yall notice that the countries backing the Zionist genocide in Palestine are the same countries backing the "Uyghur genocide" myth, used to justify massive military build-up around China, because they see China as an existential threat to Western imperialist hegemony:
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This is fucking cancer, revolutionaries are not the "betters" of the rest of the class. That's an incredibly bourgeois mentality for someone claiming to be an arbiter of who gets to be a socialist.
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From the first link in the thread but worth specifically highlighting. Despite the recent backlash against western brands for making statements against forced labor, those brands are in fact profiting from it:
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Im begging people to think critically about how just because the western media may have an interest in covering something a specific way doesn’t mean that their reasons are what motivate people on the ground, or are even relevant to them.
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Thinking about the difference between these two images, it’s vast:
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Abolishing work requires abolishing work for everyone, and that especially means the people you are so used to providing services for you you don’t even think of them as people doing work for you anymore.
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Here is an analysis of Chine State population data in Xinjiang that shows not only an incredibly stark drop in birth rate but a literal decline of minority populations along with an increase in the Han population:.
I hadn't realized that the 2020 Chinese government's statistical yearbook is out. The new data makes the case for extreme sterilization even stronger. The birth rate in Xinjiang was 15.88% in 2017, 10.69% in 2018, and only 8.14% in 2019. This is a nearly 50% drop in two years. .
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