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On 24 June 2018 at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan, the Thai Academic Network for Civil Rights (TANC) and the 24 June Democracy Group held a conference on “86 years since 1932: Branches and Fruit of Siam’s Great Revolution”
The panel speakers (from left to right): Chaiyan Rajchagool, Rawee (...)
From concerts, musicals, to movies, read ISOC’s cultural mission in their process of promoting the main ideology of the security services.
We invite you to look at the origin and development of the ideological promotion process of “nation-religion-monarchy” by the security agencies of the Thai (...)
October is an important month in Thailand’s political history as it marks the anniversary of two important political events. One is the popular uprising of 14 October 1973 where thousands of people rose up against military dictatorship, while the other, which occurred on 6 October 1976, was a (...)
BANGKOK — Social media was abuzz Wednesday after an ultra-royalist threatened Monday to destroy the 1932 Revolution plaque located next to Rama V’s equestrian statue.
User Thepmontri Limpaphayorm posted a photo of the plaque used to commemorate the location where the People’s Party announced its (...)
The king is dead, long live the king? The Thai royal family legitimates power more than actually possessing it. This function could be endangered with the coming to the throne of the crown prince. The death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej was officially announced on October 13, 2016. He had long (...)
The South Korean government wants to liquidate once and for all the militant trade-union tradition that has its historic roots in the resistance to the dictatorships of Park Chung-hee (1961-1979) and Chun Doo-hwan (1980-1987). The National Council of Trade Unions (NCTU, founded in 1990) and (...)
King Pumipon of Thailand was a weak and characterless monarch who spent his useless and privileged life in a bubble, surrounded by fawning, grovelling, toadies who claimed that he was a “god”. He was a pathetic creature who should not in any way be pitied. His life’s work was in self-enrichment, (...)
Bhumibol Adulyadej died on October 13th. The king of Thailand was 88.
AIRCRAFT dropped flowers and lucky rice on the crowds that gathered in Bangkok to see Bhumibol Adulyadej return from university to be crowned. He was 22, and had been king for three years. Auspicious signs had preceded his (...)
Chulalongkorn University’s commemoration of the 6 October Massacre explored new methods to connect younger generations with the political tragedy, recognising that concepts of human rights and democracy have yet to be firmly established in Thai society.
Every 6 October, commemorative events are (...)
Protesting students labeled as communists were shot, beaten, raped and killed, in a brutal campus massacre 40 years ago.
Oct. 6, 1976, is a date that still haunts the government and people of Thailand. On it, state forces massacred scores of student activists on the lawn of Bangkok’s Thammasat (...)
Puangthong Pawakapan, a scholar in the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University and member of the organizing committee for the “40th anniversary of 6 October: ‘We do not forget’” events gave an interview to Prachatai about the deeply-embedded culture of impunity in Thai society. In (...)
The “Red Shirts” movement has caused large-scale political instability, but it has brought to the fore critical questions about the road to Thai democratization.
For some years now Thailand has been undergoing a colossal political crisis, resulting in the 2014 coup d’état, the second military coup (...)
Despite the intense royalist indoctrination of the Bhumibol era it would be naïve not to imagine that at least some Thais draw inspiration from the country’s long republican tradition.
Thailand is typically understood as a deeply royalist country ruled by a highly revered monarch.
The king’s (...)
Andrew MacGregor Marshall, “A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century”, Z Books.
Andrew MacGregor Marshall’s book “A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century” is misnamed because it has nothing to do with Thailand’s (...)
One of the more telling decisions of the Royal Thai Army, which seized power in Thailand in a coup on May 22 this year, is to erect a new “Great Kings Monument,” comprising nine giant statues representing Thailand’s greatest kings, to honor Thailand’s monarchy and its aging king, the ninth in the (...)
Thailand has been changing in unexpected ways. Grant Evans explores the sociology of a country in continuing political crisis.
Thailand has been in crisis since an armed forces coup overthrew prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006, ultimately forcing him into exile. Although his (...)
The man who came closest to persuading me of the virtue of toppling a democratically elected government was a former investment banker and English public schoolboy called Korn Chatikavanij. All the foreign journalists in Bangkok know Korn, and a conversation with him is one of the pleasures of (...)
The hypothesis that the present long-running unrest in Thailand is primarily caused by a “crisis of succession”, assumes that the Thai monarch has real power and that he has been constantly intervening in politics. That is just not the case and the real cause of the crisis lies elsewhere. (...)
The present protests probably won’t lead to a coup, and for a country that’s seen dozens of coups and military-led governments in the past, that’s quite something.
Faced with weeks of protests, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has dissolved parliament and called a general election for Feb. (...)
BANGKOK — Anand Panyarachun, one of Thailand’s leading statesmen, recently noted that his country seemed to have everything going for it — plentiful natural resources, good weather and fortunate geography free from typhoons or volcanic eruptions.
Yet Thailand, he said, was “pulling the plug” on (...)
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