Asia

Sonny Melencio — The situation can be summarised as follows: “All the forces of heaven and hell are in formation, ready for the battle to come.” 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Noor Sadaque — The Rohingya crisis is a stark reminder that ethnic oppression is inseparable from class struggle.

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

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.

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.

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.