Cambodia
Cambodia: Truthout's outrageous attack on garment workers' struggle for a living wage
Striking garment workers marching to the Ministry for of Labor Vocational Training
Cambodia: Striking garment workers killed in brutal repression: interview, photos
Striking garment worker shows
Thailand: Puppets on a string, dancing to the tune of the military
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Land grabbing: A new colonialism
A nascent oil palm plantation in southeastern Sierra Leone owed by Socfin Agriculture Company, which in March 2011 signed a 50-year lease with the government of Serra Leone. Photo by Felicity Thompson/IRIN.
By Alan Broughton
November 6, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Since the global financial crisis of 2008 and its associated food crisis that sent another 200 million people into malnutrition, there has been a massive grab for land by large corporations around the world. Worst hit has been Africa, where food security is already non-existent for many people. Governments, including the Australian government, welcome this “investment” in agriculture, some bizarrely claiming that food security will be increased.
Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin: 'Agent Orange in Vietnam was a crime against humanity'
Appeal of the Second International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin
Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
`Coolie revolts': exclusive excerpt from 'The Devil's Milk: A social history of rubber'
The Devil’s Milk: A social history of rubber
By John Tully
Monthly Review Press, 2011
March 13, 2011 -- With the kind permission of Monthly Review Press, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal is honoured to be able to bring its readers an exclusive excerpt from Australian socialist John Tully's fascinating new book, The Devil’s Milk: A social history of rubber. The section below details how the peoples of the colonies exploited by the imperialist rubber barons fought back against their oppression. Links readers are urged to purchase a copy of this excellent new book. See also an interview with John Tully about his new book, "New book reveals the history of rubber: holocausts, environmental destruction and class struggle".
Thailand: Royalist right, ultra-nationalists want war with Cambodia
By Giles Ji Ungpakorn
Coup anniversary reveals two faces of Thailand
PAD organised a demonstration on September 19 to attack Cambodian villagers at the anc
The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Thailand
September 9, 2009 -- ESSF -- The communist movement was first established in Siam (renamed Thailand in 1939) mostly in the Chinese ethnic migrant communities, then proliferated in the seemingly disparate surrounding regions in the north, northeast and south of the country. Following a long, difficult period of transition, the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT), once an urban party, retreated to the jungle and engaged in armed struggle. Its national expansion, during the 1970s, occurred while the kingdom was transformed into a US base for military intervention in the Vietnam War. The party eventually saw its decline during the Sino-Indochinese conflict of 1978–9 and disappeared from sight in the mid-1980s.