Asia

The firing of a Tomahawk missile and operational deployment of the US Typhon system on Philippine soil mark a dangerous escalation in the country’s entanglement in imperialist military conflicts, warns Partido Lakas ng Masa.

Singaporean abolitionist activist Kokila Annamalai Parvathi faces up to 12 months in prison and a S$20,000 fine for speaking out about the cruelties of the death penalty regime.

For 9 million people in West Bengal, the electoral voting machines will not open writes Sandip Nayak. Their silence will be counted as absence. And that manufactured, deliberate and meticulously engineered absence will be called democracy.

Farooq Sulehria — Pakistan may seek to play the role of peacemaker globally but regionally it acts as a warmonger.

We, the undersigned Communist, workers’, and left-wing parties of South Asia, issue this collective call in firm and unwavering solidarity with the government and people of Cuba.

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation — For defenders of democracy and the Constitution, the Assembly elections must be taken up as an anti-fascist platform of political mobilisation.

Chenchen Zhang — The far-right label is not easily applied in China, but there is a rising tide of xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, racism, anti-feminism, and social conservatism in online discourse and within the state.

Ilyas Muzaffar — Eight hours for work. Eight hours for rest. Eight hours for replying to work texts.

Sarah Nafisa Shahid — Hardline Islamists gain ground in historic election following the 2024 July Uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina.

Farooq Tariq — The attack by US and Israeli imperialism on Iran has overshadowed the recent war between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Farooq Sulehria argues that the current confrontation reflects a deeper crisis of the regional order — one whose costs will be borne overwhelmingly by working people on both sides of the border.

Sushovan Dhar — Measured purely by participation, the strike formed part of a familiar repertoire of mass industrial protest in contemporary India. Politically, however, its significance lies elsewhere.