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Malaysia: PSM members win RM200,000 settlement in false imprisonment case

Celebrations following the release of the EO6. Ex-detainee Choo Chon Kai in centre.
Malaysia: Kampong Hakka -– when 100 years of community residence does not matter
By S. Arutcheclvan, general-secretary, Socialist Party of Malaysia

Socialist Party of Malaysia's general secretary S. Arutchelvan being arrested.
Pakistan 'anti-terrorism' court jails left-wing activists for 10 years for protesting

Baba Jan addressing displaced villagers in Hunza Valley in 2010.
By Haseeb ur Rahman
Who really benefits from sweatshops?

Billionaire sweatshop sponger Bruce Rockowitz's CEO in October 2011 Rockowitz married Hong Kong pop
Malaysia: Chin Peng 'a determined, resourceful anti-colonial and anti-imperialist fighter'

Chin Peng holds up page one of The Straits Times newspaper of

Assassinated transport workers’ leader Antonio “Dodong” Petalcorin.
Malaysian socialists oppose Pacific free trade agreement

Anti-TPPA protest outside Malaysia's parliament on July 16.

Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra reviews the troops.
For more on Thailand and the Red Shirt movement, click HERE.
By Giles Ji Ungpakorn
June 17, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- One might be tempted to celebrate the fact that Tarit Pengdit, head of the Department of Special Investigations, has forwarded the cases against former PM Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Sutep Tuaksuban to the public prosecutor. Tarit stated that there was ample evidence that they had ordered the killings of Red Shirt pro-democracy demonstrators in 2010.
Malaysia: Mass rallies continue against election 'robbers' (+photo story)

Popular PSM leader Arul at May 25 "Voice of the People 505" rally at

Review by Chris Slee

