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It has become a typical Yangon scene. Hundreds of customers lined up anxiously in front of every ATM in Myanmar’s commercial hub waiting for the chance to withdraw between 200,000 to 300,000 kyats (around US$140 to US$210) per day. Many people leave their homes before dawn, as soon as the (...)
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Myanmar’s Informal Financial Service Providers Take Advantage of Post-Coup Banking Crisis Myanmar Military Suffers Heavy Casualties in Fierce Fighting With Ethnic Armed Groups Fighting broke out between various ethnic armed groups and the Myanmar military at several locations in the country’s north and northeast on Monday, resulting in heavy casualties to the military, including the death of a battalion commander, as well as the reported capture of some of their (...)
Pakistan mourns the death of human rights defender I.A. Rehman He passed away in Lahore at the age of 90.
Journalist and human rights advocate Ibn Abdur Rehman, known as I.A. Rehman, passed away in Lahore at the age of 90 on Monday morning.
Several journalists and other public figures took to Twitter to remember the human rights defender, who was also a (...)United States: Union Organizing Drive at Amazon Fails—Why? What Next? In a major setback for the U.S. labor movement, last week the union organizing drive at the giant Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama defeated. Workers voted 1,798 against and 738 for the union in a union representation election in which only about half of the 5,876 eligible workers (...)
United States: As American Life Returns to Normal, Mass Shootings Resume In Atlanta, Georgia on March 16 a gunman killed eight people, in three spas, six of them Asian women. Then on March 22 in Boulder, Colorado, a man with a gun killed ten people. On March 31, 2021, in Orange, California, a gunman murdered four people, one a nine-year-old boy. Since the Atlanta (...)
Canada: The class struggle and geopolitics As socialists, our solidarity should be with the international working class, not with governments or states
The United States is the world’s hegemonic power, though that position is less secure than it used to be. It dominates and exploits countries across the planet, imposing puppet regimes (...)Northern Ireland’s women won abortion rights but its politicians won’t accept that After Stormont voted to restrict abortion rights, Westminster is intervening to secure the services women are legally entitled to
Northern Ireland is no country for young women. Out of 87 members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) at Stormont last week, just 12 voted to allow women the right (...)How oil and gas majors bankroll the Myanmar military regime – Total, Chevron, Posco, Petronas... As Myanmar’s generals look for revenues to prop up their new dictatorship following the February 1 coup, there’s one source of money they can count on : natural gas projects backed by foreign investors including France’s Total and Chevron of the US, South Korea’s Posco and Malaysia’s Petronas. (...)
A grim new year for debt-trapped rural women in Sri Lanka Ongoing protest against microfinance the latest from Rajapaksas’ support base
M. Champa Irangani is in no mood to celebrate ‘Avurudu’, or New Year, the biggest annual festival that Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese community observes mid-April, while Tamils celebrate the Tamil New Year around the (...)Joint Statement: Info Birmanie, Justice For Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders and Sherpa welcome the withdrawal of French company Voltalia after a year of discussions French company Voltalia has announced that they are ending their business in Myanmar, linked to Mytel.
Info Birmanie, Justice For Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders and Sherpa welcome the withdrawal of Voltalia after a year of discussions
Paris, April 1, 2021 - The French multinational has (...)Fighting anti-Asian violence cannot include apologism for the Chinese state The movement against anti-Asian violence must not become yet another bargaining chip between two repressive super powers.
Last month’s murders of Asian women massage workers in Atlanta marked another devastating milestone in a recent wave of anti-Asian violence fueled by pandemic racism and the (...)Britain – Prince Philip – Isn’t the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme Fantastic? From Dave Kellaway, the Anti*Capitalist Resistance Royal correspondent somewhere near Buckingham Palace.
For weeks the ranks of the mainstream mass media have been beavering away honing their comment pieces, assessing thousands of archive photos and looking at their contact list of royal (...)Thai organizations calls on the Thai government to make every effort to stop violence in Myanmar We, civil society groups, make up of people NGOs, academics, businessmen, media, and government officials are deeply concerned about the violence in Myanmar since the Myanmar Army led by General Min Aung Hlaing, has launched a coup d’etat on February 1, 2021, and arrested Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (...)
Myanmar: The Future is Federal While the CRPH-led Federal Charter is a positive first step, a future Federal Constitution must follow a step-by-step process, co-led by ethnic political and civil society actors, and be inclusive of all peoples of Myanmar at all steps of the process, including a provisional constitution, to (...)
Open Letter From Myanmar Csos Regarding the Myanmar Red Cross Society’s Attendance at the Murderous Junta’s Armed Forces Day Celebration Violating Principles of ICRC and IFRC Dear ICRC Members, IFRC Members and International Partner Countries,
We, 407 Myanmar civil society organizations, condemn the Myanmar Red Cross Society’s (MRCS) attendance at the Armed Forces Day reception, which violates the fundamental principles of neutrality and conflict sensitivity, (...)Chhattisgarh Maoist attack: Why the government dodges dialogue option? Around 23 paramilitary personnel were killed in an ambush with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) [CPI (Maoist)] guerrillas in central India’s Chhattisgarh on Saturday, April 3rd 2021. There are reports that a woman guerrilla of the Peoples’ Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) was also killed in (...)
Myanmar Regime Shores Up Ties With Two Powerful Northern Ethnic Armies (Wa and Shan) Senior officials of the Myanmar military regime recently met with two powerful ethnic Wa and Shan armed groups to cement relations with them.
The UWSA holds an event in 2019 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding. / The Irrawaddy
The regime’s peace committee went to Matmanseng and (...)Resistance Forces Kill At Least 18 Myanmar Soldiers in Sagaing Border Town A roadblock set up by anti-regime protesters in Tamu, Sagaing Region. / Khampat Times
At least 18 members of Myanmar’s security forces were killed by activists on Saturday afternoon after a civilian was shot in Tamu, Sagaing Region, on the Indian border.
A young man, who was not protesting, (...)Bago Region: Death Toll in Myanmar Regime’s Latest Massacre Rises as Details Emerge More than 80 civilians, including students, were massacred by the Myanmar military regime in a single day in Bago Friday.
The initial death toll from the dawn attacks on anti-regime strongholds in Bago was about 60, but the number of those slain has continued to grow as more details emerge. (...)United States: Trump and Trumpism Make a Comeback With the failure of the January 6 attack on Congress to overturn the 2020 election, Trump’s final attempt to do so, many progressives and socialists thought that we were finished with Trump.
But it has become clearer that the Republican Party remains under Trump’s control. The concerted drive by (...)
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