By Corinna Jentzsch, December 17, 2022 A new and different state is necessary to manage the complex problems in the region, but is it possible under the current regime that…
Indonesia: 50% of national strategic project land in 2021 originated from agrarian conflicts: KPA
By CNN Indonesia, January 6, 2022 Jakarta — The Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) has revealed that throughout 2021 almost 50 percent of land procured by the government for national strategic…
Pakistan: Hail the emperor
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, January 7, 2022 WHO rules Pakistan? Some may say the answer is simple: the establishment. This may be accurate to the extent that our structure of…
“Reform, Not Abolition”: The “Thai Youth Movement” and Its Demands for Reform of the Monarchy
By Anusorn Unno, January 2022 Introduction On 10 August 2020, a student organisation called the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration (UFTD) held a gathering at Thammasat University’s Rangsit Centre…
For Myanmar workers, another problem emerges: labor abuse
Employees say they are forced to work overtime and their pay is often late since the Feb. 1 coup. Factory managers in Myanmar are suppressing workers’ rights, with mandatory overtime…
Britain’s shameful slavery history matters – that’s why a jury acquitted the Colston Four
By David Olusoga, 6 Jan 2022 Jurors were asked to rule that Edward Colston’s heinous crimes were immaterial, but they chose to put themselves on the right side of history…
UK: I’m one of the Colston Four. Our victory confirms the power and value of protest
By Rhian Graham, 6 Jan 2022 We have been accused of erasing history – but that’s impossible. All we did was shine a light in places people don’t want lights…
Frontier Fridays: The Top Stories in Myanmar this Week
By Frontier Myanmar, January 21, 2022 Welcome back to Frontier Fridays. This week French-owned TotalEnergies came out in support of sanctions, Telenor made headlines for not one but two sales,…
Editorial: Centre-Left Must Unite To Defeat The Cult Of Personality Destroying India
By Vinod Mubayi, January 1, 2022 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent “performance” in Varanasi where he changed costumes four times in the course of a day in several locations in…
Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth
By Christian Zeller, December 31, 2021 Responding to non-linear developments in condensed time The recent heat waves in the northwestern United States, western Canada, Siberia and the Mediterranean as well…