Asia

Is Pax Silica an innocuous agreement for economic cooperation or an instrument of domination? To understand what it is meant to accomplish, Nicholas considers the context from which it emerges.

Jeyakumar Devaraj shares the Parti Sosialis Malaysia’s analysis of the Malaysian situation and the challenges facing the left.

Jeyakumar Devaraj argues that Malaysia has been economically recolonised and the answer lies in a 20–30 year transitional program, built from the ground up and on the mass line model, which focuses on regional South-South solidarity.

Au Loong-Yu critiques China's 2026 “Ethnic Unity Law,” which instead of acknowledging and redressing injustices, continues to uphold the party line of denying communities’ right to self-determination.

Gandipan Nantha Gopalan asks: what are Malaysians getting for providing land, electricity, water, infrastructure and incentives to promote data centre investments?

The scale of the disaster in Nepal, which spread across borders, demonstrates the stark reality of the existential climate emergency, writes Partido Lakas ng Masa.

A party inspired by ideology does not fade away simply because of electoral losses; our motivation is derived from other, deeper factors, writes S. Arutchelvan.

Manish Kumar discusses the recent powerful expression of youth dissent against the Narendra Modi government and next steps for the Cockroach movement.

The cockroach movement’s great structural strength was also its great vulnerability, contends Sankha Subhra Biswas.

Never has such a brave mass movement been witnessed in the region as the one currently unfolding in Pakistani-controlled Jammu Kashmir, writes Farooq Tariq.

Assam is not currently at war. But, as Maharnav Bhuyan writes, the ingredients that produced its last war are all present in a more advanced form.

Rubio is a very dangerous man on a very dangerous mission to the Philippines, warns Partido Lakas ng Masa.