Asia

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China: A new imperial capitalist power

Chris Slee — ‘China in Global Capitalism’ is an excellent introduction to China today, which looks at the nature of Chinese society and the reasons for China’s growing conflict with the United States.
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The unending storm: Conflict, power and survival in Myanmar’s Arakan state

Noor Sadaque — The struggle in Arakan is not merely a local ethnic or sectarian clash but a microcosm of Myanmar’s broader civil war, where competing nationalisms, geopolitical interests and survival instincts collide.
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Communist Party of the Philippines: Background to the 1993 Split

Max Lane — At the heart of the split in the Communist Party of the Philippines were issues of democratic centralism, absolutist deviations, militarist thinking and rejection of the Maoist approach to guerrilla warfare.
PSM-MUDA alliance byelection

Parti Sosialis Malaysia’s distinctive role in Malaysian politics (plus: What the PSM-Muda alliance brings to the Ayer Kuning poll)

Jeyakumar Devaraj — For the past several years, Parti Sosialis Malaysia has been presenting fresh perspectives that the mainstream political parties are either unable to conceptualize or unwilling to articulate.
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A tale of two ports: Africa, Asia and the subimperial scramble

Phil A Neel — Asia’s ascent and the gradual decline of the wealthiest countries’ investments in Africa do not represent the decay of US hegemony, but instead its strengthening through the agglomeration of new, subimperial power centers.
Zelensky Bongbong Marcos

US-China alignment under Trump and lessons from Ukraine for the Philippines

Reihana Mohideen — Like Ukraine, the Philippines could be reduced to a pawn in the US power play with China.
Rohingya displaced Muslims

The Rohingya crisis and the national question: A Marxist perspective

Noor Sadaque — The Rohingya crisis is a stark reminder that ethnic oppression is inseparable from class struggle.
Logging has threatened wildlife and displaced native communities

From forest to finance: How carbon credits mask ecological destruction

Jeyakumar Devaraj — It is high time for environmental NGOs and concerned individuals to push strongly back against false corporate-driven ‘solutions’.
IMF out of Pakistan

World Bank and IMF — Keeping Pakistan in shackles

Farooq Tariq — Pakistani farmers and peasants are demanding accountability for the WB-IMF’s promotion of neoliberal and open-market economic policies that fuel hunger and inequalities.
Southeast Asian Sea

Asserting a Philippine foreign policy of cooperative peace for the Southeast Asian Sea

Rasti Delizo — The geostrategic rivalry between the US and China sharply rages on throughout the Eastern Hemisphere, impinging on the littoral states around the Southeast Asian Sea.
Proletarian China: A century of Chinese labour

Proletarian China: A century of working-class struggle

Chris Slee — From the struggles of workers on the Beijing-Hankou railway in the 1920s to that of the Jasic factory workers in 2017-18, ‘Proletarian China’ deals with a range of working-class battles over pay, conditions and union rights.
100 years communist movement India

Centenary of the Communist movement in India: Achievements, lessons and challenges

Dipankar Bhattacharya look at the history of the communist movement in India to draw inspiration and lessons from the past for facing the challenges of the present.