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Britain: Authoritarianism is creeping into classrooms New curriculum guidance will limit critical thinking and cement a neoliberal capitalist consensus. It should be setting off alarm bells, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury.
Last week, the Department for Education (DfE) released new guidance to help ‘implement the new statutory curriculum’. The guidance (...)USSR: “In the Hot Summer of ‘68, We Were the Tempest in the Hungarian Teapot” – The Hungarian Maoist ‘Plotters’ In the June 9th 1968 issue of the Hungarian central party newspaper Népszabadság, there is a short news piece hidden on the bottom of page 13:
The Capital Court issued a verdict on Saturday, in the conspiracy case of György Pór et. al. The court found Pór and Sándor Bencze guilty of initiating a (...)India: ‘Why Should We Not Rid Ourselves of This Entire Problem?’: Bhagat Singh on Religion The moot point is that even if one keeps one’s religion a private matter, does it not heighten a feeling of alienation in people’s hearts? Does it not affect the aim of attaining complete freedom?
On Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary, an extract from The Bhagat Singh Reader, edited by Chaman Lal (...)Indonesia: publish details about mining concessions! Jakarta — A non-government organisation focusing on mining in South-East Asia, Transforming Energy and Development (Trend Asia), is urging the government to reveal detailed information on mining contracts in Indonesia. Trend Asia representative Ahmad Ashov made the call on International Right To (...)
Thailand: Kraisak Choonhavan (1947–2020) Kraisak Choonhavan, a Journal of Contemporary Asia author and long-time friend of the journal, passed away on June 11, after a long fight with cancer. He was 72.
Born in Bangkok, Kraisak attended the elite Saint Gabriel’s College in Bangkok before his father, Chatichai, and his family, were (...)India: ’Class-Consciousness Can Stop Communal Rioting’: Bhagat Singh on Religious Violence If religion is separated from politics, then we can all come together in politics even if we belong to different religions, wrote Bhagat Singh.
On Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary, an extract from The Bhagat Singh Reader, edited by Chaman Lal and published by HarperCollins India.
The essay (...)West Papuans: ‘Veronica Koman is us’ The Ebamukai Solidarity Team for Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman repaid her scholarship to the Indonesian government on September 16.
Koman has been living in exile in Australia since last year. She has played a critical role in documenting Indonesian human rights abuses against (...)Indonesia: Prabowo approves recruitment of 1,000 Special Autonomy soldiers in West Papua Toyiban, Manokwari — Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has approved a program to recruit 1,000 Special Autonomy non-commissioned officers (Bintara Otsus) which was proposed by the West Papua/Kasuari/XVIII Regional Military Command (Kodam).
Kodam Kasuari commander Major General Ali Hamdan Bogra (...)United States: The Supreme Court and Denial of Democratic Rights Trump’s appointee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, whose approval will be jammed through in unprecedented haste by the Republican controlled Senate on October 26.
Barrett is on the far right among judges. A member of a fringe religious group that believes the husband is the head of the (...)Why is the nationalist right hallucinating a ‘communist enemy’? From Trump to Bolsonaro, reactionary leaders are invoking a communism that no longer exists as a way of attacking the left
How can it be that a presidential election in the US in 2020 is being fought by the Republicans on the febrile ground of anti-communism? Trump claims that the Democratic (...)A New Party of the Left in Serbia The Social Democratic Union’s 12th congress in Belgrade marked its transformation into a new left-wing party—the Party of the Radical Left (PRL).
MK: Can you tell us a bit of the backstory behind the new party’s founding?
IV: The Social Democratic Union (SDU) changed its leadership five or six (...)Pakistan: Contesting the ironic regime Recent political developments remind us that locating the power centre is often harder than holding it accountable. The bravado shown by the opposition parties during the All Parties Conference lost much of its steam as news began circulating of ‘secret meetings’. Various narratives emerged, (...)
Sri Lanka: Thirty Years On: Pain of the Northern Muslims is Forgotten “And home isn’t here and home isn’t there” – Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour
Every story of ethnic cleansing is heart breaking. Some of them have been almost forgotten, overlooked in favour of others that were on a larger scale but they were just as driven by hatred and unsettling prejudices (...)‘We just had the heart to fight the boss’: A Hong Kong leftist’s story Interviewer’s note :
Hong Kong’s protest movement has seen a major setback with the introduction of the National Security Laws in July (1). In this atmosphere, continuing to archive, analyze, and humanize the political choices protestors made is no retreat. Rather, it’s a necessary part of (...)Eco-socialism and/or De-growth Ecosocialism and the de-growth movement are among the most important currents of the ecological left. Ecosocialists agree that a significant measure of de-growth in production and consumption is necessary in order to avoid ecological collapse. But they have a critical assessment of the (...)
To tackle sexual violence in Bangladesh the culture of victim blaming must end There are still those who ask ‘what was she wearing’. An urgent conversation is needed about toxic masculinity and consent
There has been growing outrage among Bangladeshi citizens over the past two weeks at a string of gruesome gang rapes and sexual assaults reported in the media. There is a (...)Police brutality is just tip of the iceberg for protesters in Nigeria Police violence prompted latest protests but anger at the government is growing
The signs held up by protesters have been clear. “We have no leaders,” said one. “The power of the youth is stronger than you that is in power,” ran another. A third read: “Nigeria bleeds.”
This last statement has been (...)Profile: Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn – Considerable power Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn - his name means “adorned with jewels or thunderbolts” - was born on 28 July 1952, the first son and second child of Queen Sirikit and King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who had succeeded to the throne unexpectedly six years previously.
After decades of uncertainty over royal (...)Pandemic: Vietnam is fighting Covid without pitting economic growth against public health My country seemed to have all the ingredients for a coronavirus disaster, so what has it done right?
On the evening of 7 March 2020, I received an email from the manager of the office building where I work in central Hanoi. It said the father of Nguyen Hong Nhung, the 17th Covid-19 patient in (...)Obituary: Reuven Kaminer, our teacher of politics Two Israelis of the same generation passed away last week: Meron Benvenisti and Reuven Kaminer. I know both, but only Reuven was a friend, a comrade. Benvenisti was a politician, a dignitary. As deputy mayor of Jerusalem, he was architect of the annexation of East Jerusalem, with everything (...)
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