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The Myanmar military, which attempted a brutal and unlawful coup on Feb 1, is waging a campaign of terror against the people that involves deliberate killings, indiscriminate airstrikes, mass arrests and torture.
The military’s criminal conduct is enabled by its business interests. Justice For (...)
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Public companies financially supporting the illegitimate Myanmar junta Philippines: Pasion’s Passion Eduardo Tadem’s book is the University of the Philippines professor’s homage to the late Bartolome Pasion, his comrade in the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP), the older of the two communist parties in the Philippines.
Ka Bart (Ka is short for kasama, Filipino word for comrade) grew up in a (...)Public Health in Collapse: Healthcare Workers Report on Fragile Healthcare Systems During the past year, healthcare workers all around the world have shouldered an incredible burden. Although both people and policy makers have applauded their contribution to the COVID-19 response, little has been done in practice to actually protect and support workers on the frontline. It is (...)
EU: ‘We need to formulate a left-wing idea of happiness’ A new book focuses on what makes people really happy: solidarity
For the past two years, three researchers have tried to understand what ‘happiness’ looks like for residents of Kyrgyzstan, and particularly for LGBT and queer people in this Central Asian state, who regularly face rejection and (...)Sri Lanka: COVID-19 divide in private and public sector salaries The pandemic impacted salaries in dualistic ways last year, with real wages of formal private sector workers showing a reduction of 4.2% but in contrast nominal wages of public sector workers increased 9.2% and real wages 2.9% in 2020, the Central Bank said.
The Central Bank Annual Report (...)Is Total profiteering in Myanmar? Contractual arrangements for the lucrative Yadana gas project may have been rigged to enable foreign energy giants to make excessive profits at Myanmar’s expense.
This hugely concerning and significant possibility has emerged from an analysis by Justice For Myanmar of leaked financial records (...)Statement: Our solidarity with the Colombian people! The Duque government massacres against the Colombian people must be stopped!
After the spectacular uprisings in Ecuador and Chile in 2019, we are witnessing a huge rebellion of the Colombian people, who, after last Sunday’s partial victory - with the government’s withdrawal of its tax (...)In Memoriam (United States): Kai Nielsen (1926-2021) The Marxist philosopher Kai Nielsen, for many years a sponsor of New Politics, passed away on March 29 in Montreal, only a few weeks away from what would have been his 95th birthday.
Kai was born in Michigan and grew up in northern Illinois. Many years later he wrote that growing up during the (...)In Ukraine, anger over fuel poverty is bringing people out into the streets Some citizens have faced a threefold hike in energy costs since New Year – leading to fears many could lose their homes
Early this year, a wave of ‘tariff protests’ swept Ukraine’s rural settlements, towns and small cities. The protests, organised largely spontaneously, were often accompanied by (...)Yemen: Killer Prince The Saudi offer of a ceasefire in Yemen on 22 March was an acknowledgement by Riyadh and its backers in Washington that they had lost the war. Biden signalled the grudging surrender in February, when he announced the US would end its support for ‘offensive operations’ there. After six years of (...)
Philippines tilts towards full-blown Covid catastrophe Covid-19 patients are dying in tents outside of overwhelmed hospitals while the government grapples for a coherent response
MANILA – The Philippines is grappling with the region’s worst Covid-19 outbreak, a surge in infections that some fear could soon tilt the country towards a humanitarian (...)Covid-19 (India): Turning a Profit from Death - On Modi’s Pandemic Response in Neoliberal India and pandemic Let us be clear from the outset: what is happening in India right now is mass murder. And it is organized by a man who has practice in such matters.
Two images bookend the current crisis and contain in them a trajectory of the crisis. The first is the image of the Indian police hosing down (...)United States: Will Biden Be Another Roosevelt? Perhaps the most frequently discussed question lately is: Will President Joseph Biden be another Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)’s presidency, from 1933 to 1945, transformed the United States with its New Deal, a collection of social welfare programs that rewrote the nation’s (...)UK: Lobbying politicians is holding back the climate movement The lobbying and state-directed demands of climate NGOs are hurting the UK’s climate movement. We need to organize our struggle at a distance from the state.
In early January, Labour leader Keir Starmer tweeted about his commitment to tackling the climate emergency, sharing an image of him (...)Fifty years since the May Day massacre in the Philippines Fifty years ago, on Saturday, May 1 1971, police and military forces in the Philippines, who had been deployed on the roof of the Congress building as snipers armed with machine guns, opened fire on four thousand protesting workers and students. They mercilessly strafed the crowd, firing on (...)
MONLAR castigates Sri Lankan government for not saving the poor from microfinance loan sharks The government is doing nothing to help the poor caught in a micro-credit trap, moderator of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR), Chinthaka Rajapakshe says.
Rajapakshe said that only the Parliamentary Committee on Gender Equality and some MPs, from both the government and (...)Hong Kong protests: more than 10,200 arrested in connection with unrest since 2019, government tells lawmakers Papers released by Department of Justice, Civil Service Bureau, and Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau show 10,242 arrests made. More than 600 people already convicted, with 2,521 charged with variety of offences including rioting and unlawful assembly.
Hong Kong police have arrested (...)The decline of Hong Kong’s press freedom under the national security law HKFP has rounded up major events damaging press freedom since the enactment of the security law.
Hong Kong’s press freedom has suffered serious setbacks since the Beijing-imposed national security law came into force in June last year. In recent weeks public broadcaster RTHK has been hit by a (...)Growing crackdown on Turkey’s left-wing opposition While the discontent of relevant sections of the Turkish population with current government policies is growing, Turkish government has escalated its campaign of repression against the left-wing opposition party HDP. At this point, the reaction of moderate Turkish civil society actors will be (...)
Military’s Latest Coup Pushes Myanmar Into Revolt – “‘Reconciliation’ era is over” After three months of unyielding opposition to the military’s Feb. 1 coup, Myanmar is now a country in revolt.
The country, which has experienced more than its share of uprisings and revolutions—including the “’88 Pro-Democracy Uprising” in 1988 and the “Saffron Revolution” led by Buddhist monks in (...)
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