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Since 1963, the Indonesian state has occupied West Papua against the will of its people with the full backing of Australia and the US. Despite decades of brutal repression, Papuans are still rising up to demand their national liberation, at home, in Indonesia and internationally. An interview (...)
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Interview: Indonesia’s Repression Hasn’t Broken the West Papuan Freedom Struggle Thailand: Memorial To Communist Revolutionary Unveiled A group of academics officially unveiled a memorial dedicated to Jitr Bhumisak, the Communist writer who was killed 47 years ago and later became a symbol of youthful rebellion and activism for generations of progressives in Thailand.
Mr. Jitr was shot dead by members of local anti-Communist (...)China crackdown on rights lawyers ‘shocking’: Rights expert Rights activists and their lawyers continue to be charged, detained, disappeared and tortured according to UN special rapporteur on situation of human rights defenders.
A United Nations rights expert has slammed a years-long crackdown on rights defenders and legal professionals in China, (...)Thailand: Academics Fear Militarization of State Universities BANGKOK — Academics are alarmed by a recent order from junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha to pave way for outsiders to become administrators at state state universities.
The order, issued under Prayuth’s self-granted absolute power, was described as necessary to move stalled appointment of (...)Debate: Fascism, Resistance, and the State – A Critique of Spectre’s Antifascist Strategy The editors of Spectre have responded to the invasion of the Congress with an editorial call to antifascist mass organization . This fresh voice is important precisely because many on the left (or on its borders, such as liberals) believe leaderless direct action, electoral work, and small (...)
US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds Law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests show a clear disparity in responses, new statistics show
Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a nonprofit that monitors (...)The strategic debates of the European left - from Recommons Europe to the pandemic On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts translated into Croatian produced by the network Recommons Europe (see https://www.cadtm.org/ReCommonsEurope-Manifesto-for-a-New-Popular-Internationalism-in-Europe and (...)
Myanmar gang rape victim wins legal battle with military In a rare acknowledgement of wrongdoing, the military announces the verdict and sentence against the 3 rapists
After being gang-raped by soldiers, steely-eyed Thein Nu went up against Myanmar’s powerful military in a months-long fight for justice – a fight that paid off with a rare legal (...)India: Why Farmers are Protesting Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020 If passed, this bill is likely to add a Rs.1,00,000 crore additional burden on farmers and raise their cost of irrigation by 500%.
The farmers protesting the three Farm Acts are today in the 21stday of their struggle. Along with the Farm Acts, they are also demanding the rollback of the (...)Poland: “To Regain the Right to Decide for Ourselves” Agnieszka Mrozik speaks with Ewa Dąbrowska-Szulc, President of Pro Femina Association, Poland on the actual and past protests against abortion laws, feminist organisation and on the history of women’s right to self-determination in Poland.
On 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal (...)Opinion: Anti-Communist Song Belongs In Thailand’s Past, Period Indoctrination isn’t what it used to be, not when competition for people’s ears and eyes has become so intense.
Army chief Gen. Apirat Kongsompong must have reached that disappointed conclusion after ordering 160 army radio stations to play Cold War-era propaganda songs in response to the mere (...)Britain: Covid is a Class Issue Roy Wilkes reviews the continuing Tory pandemic chaos and puts the case for Zero Covid.
«Boris» Johnson’s announcement two days ago [19 December 2020] that his promise to allow households to mix over Christmas is now to be broken typifies the chaotic lurches in policy we have seen from the UK (...)Statement (Mindanao, Philippines): 2020 International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples In celebration of the “2020 International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples” with the theme: Covid-19 and Indigenous Peoples Resilience, we in the Kesefanangguwit Timuay (Timuay Justice and Governance), an Indigenous Political Structure (IPS) of the Teduray and Lambangian join the different IP (...)
Mindanao (Philippines): Position on the proposed bill for extension of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority POSITION OF THE TIMUAY JUSTICE AND GOVERNANCE (TJG) ON THE PROPOSED BILL FOR EXTENSION OF THE BANGSAMORO TRANSITION AUTHORITY - BANGSAMORO AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO (BTA-BARMM)
In the context of the United Nations, the Maguindanaon, Maranao, Iranun, Tausug, Yakan, Sama and others (...)The fall of ‘Dracula politics’ in Romania On December 6, Romanians elected their members of parliament. The elections were held despite the fact that there were record numbers of Covid cases during the last month with more than 5,500 cases on the 1st of December and 148 people dead. This is the last chapter in a catastrophic management (...)
Algeria: Essential Readings on the Hirak Uprisings of 2019 This collection of texts in English, Arabic and French is a first attempt to gather secondary sources discussing the revolutionary mobilization that started in Algeria in February 2019. Since then, the four-term President Bouteflika has been forced to resign and the longstanding Chief of Staff (...)
Thong Jamsri, Thailand’s Last Communist Leader, Dies At 98 BANGKOK — An ex-leader of the Communist guerrilla movement, who later took up the cause of democratizing Thailand, died today at the age of 98.
Thong Jamsri, who served as the Communist Party of Thailand’s secretary-general during its twilight years of armed resistance, died of a respiratory (...)India: Faces in mirror held up by farmers’ protest They are showing how wrong we all were in our pessimism and giving the ordinary people a chance for all to unite and reclaim rights
The decisive Battle of Plassey that gave the East India Company its foothold in India and established its rule was lost not for lack of battlefield valour but (...)Capitol (USA): Seven Theses on the Post-Trump Right and DSA’s Role in the Fight Ahead As the largest and most organized force on the U.S left, DSA has a crucial role to play in how the broader left interprets and responds to the storming of the US Capitol. As socialists, we are opposed to everything that happened in Washington Wednesday because it was an attempt by racist, right (...)
Thailand: Student activists fined for hanging chili and garlic on the fence of Govt. house BANGKOK — Can garlands of chili and garlic cost you 2,000 baht? It did Wednesday for two activists.
Two student activists, Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak and Tanawat “Ball” Wongchai, were fined for hanging garlic and chili garlands on the Government House fence Feb. 2 as a symbolic gesture calling for (...)
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