Why the Hong Kong protests matter to unionists

The Hong Kong protests are an unparalleled democratic explosion - touching young and old, worker and student. The stakes are high. Since 18 August 2019 almost every protest has been banned. Now with a partial state of emergency in place - face masks are banned, the MTR train system rarely runs outside of business hours imposing a kind of curfew - we are watching our neighbour slide into a place of crisis.