Asia
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: 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.
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.
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: 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?
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.
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.
Rebuilding Hong Kong’s democratic movements in retreat: A response to Zi‑yuet
Hau-wai critically engages with Zi-yuet’s call for rebuilding Hong Kong's democratic movements.
RSS enters its centenary: A saga of uninterrupted fascist assault on modern India
Dipankar Bhattacharya — Hindu consolidation remains the central theme of the RSS and to achieve this goal it simultaneously plays the twin cards of victimhood as well as pride and power.
Comrade President? Change and continuity in Sri Lanka
Balasingham Skanthakumar — Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People’s Power (NPP) coalition is highly significant for symbolic and substantive reasons.
Dipankar Bhattacharya — The merger of the Marxist Coordination Committee into the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has been greatly welcomed by the broad left ranks across the country.
Pakistan: As the old is dying, a new struggles to be born
Ammar Ali Jan — Decades of economic, political and social neglect have now metastasised into a scenario that sees Pakistan seemingly heading down a blind alley.