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Protest in Seoul 2024 candlelight revolution

Eleven days that rocked South Korea: Analysing Yoon’s failed self-coup and the 2024 candlelight revolution

Won Youngsu — Eleven historic days of popular struggle between President Yoon’s failed self-coup and his impeachment sealed his fate. Yoon’s impeachment represents a tremendous triumph of people power.
Protest impeachment president yoon december 14

South Korea: Yoon’s impeachment is a win for people’s power

Won Youngsu — Yoon’s self-coup showed the inherent weakness of South Korea’s institutional democracy. His impeachment demonstrated the robust resilience of people’s grassroots democracy.
Members of South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party protest against President Yoon Suk-yeol outside the national assembly in Seoul.

South Korea: People’s power on verge of victory as President Yoon set to be impeached

Won Youngsu — President Yoon has shown himself to be an enemy of South Korea’s democracy. But it appears that another candlelight revolution will triumph to save democracy.
CPIML election victories

India: Pointers and challenges of recent election outcome (plus CPIML Liberation scores election wins)

Dipankar Bhattacharya — In many ways the November election outcomes should be seen as an early reality check after the denting of the BJP's majority in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Imran Khan’s supporters broke through security barriers on roads blocked with shipping containers as they responded to his call for a sit-in protest.

Pakistan: Comprador nation

Ammar Ali Jan — The accumulated contradictions of the Pakistani state have thus mutated into a full-blown crisis.
Protest demanding Yoon impeachment Seoul December 7

South Korea: In face of million-strong protest, ruling party sabotages Yoon’s impeachment

Won Youngsu — President Yoon remains in his post after conservative People Power Party MPs boycotted a impeachment vote despite 1 million people protesting outside parliament to demand his ouster.
South Korea soldiers NEC

South Korea: Motive emerges for President Yoon’s failed self-coup

Won Youngsu — More details continue to emerge regarding the motivation behind President Yoon Suk Yeol’s spectacular failed self-coup on December 3.
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law has sparked outrage in the streets and concern among South Korea’s international allies.

South Korea: After President Yoon’s failed self-coup

Won Youngsu — With impeachment of South Korean President Yoon seemingly blocked after his failed self-coup, it now up to the people to step in where politicians have failed.
Imperial chessboard

Building international solidarity against imperial rivalry: An interview with Ashley Smith about the rise of capitalist China

Ashley Smith explores the practical implications of the rise of China for socialists and activists fighting for a better and more just world today.
Sri Lanka election results

Sri Lanka: Reading the General Election 2024 (plus: The Sri Lankan left’s long road to power)

Pasan Jayasinghe & Amali Wedagedara — The National People’s Power (NPP) has made history. How can the NPP’s victory and mandate be understood, and what will the next five years look like?
Anti-imperialism protest in the Philippines

The logic of imperialism’s ‘Maritime Great Game’ in the Southeast Asian Sea

Rasti Delizo — A fresh inter-imperialist conflict is mounting in the form of a ‘Maritime Great Game’, and it is swiftly accelerating across the Southeast Asian Sea.
Kokila Annamalai Parvathi

Socialist Party of Malaysia: Solidarity with Singaporean activist Kokila Annamalai Parvathi

The Socialist Party of Malaysia stands in solidarity with Kokila Annamalai Parvathi, a concerned citizen of Singapore who is facing censorship for voicing out her conscience.