The ongoing revolt in Hong Kong was and continues to be of special interest to our journal as it is part of the visible revolts occurring in 2019 in many different places of the globe. Whether these isolated hotspots in Europe, Central and South America, Asia, the Middle East, and the Maghreb are an indication of a larger groundswell of upheavals in the near future remains an open question for now. In the following, we publish the first part of an interview with Au Loong Yu conducted by email, which refers to events up to 26 November 2019. Au is a Hong Kong-based writer and activist and well connected with social movements in Hong Kong as well as abroad.