Burma’s Democracy Façade Has Broken – Coup Or Not, Ethnic People...
From Karen News:
It’s taken 10 years for the veneer to finally fall off Burma’s military-backed democracy. The military’s made its intentions clear in the early hours of Monday...
Straw Bricks- PMC Aren’t to Blame for Singapore’s Docile Working Class
"Nothing more than socialites masquerading as socialists"
Veteran Singaporean socialist Poh Soo Kai recalled that in his university days someone had brushed him off with this line. The insult...
Kill are Peemies- How the Post-Left ‘Got Got’
Adolph Reed caused a minor uproar recently with an off-hand comment about one of his fellow theorists, Angela Nagle: she ‘got got’ by the reactionary side for writing...
The Democratic Foundations of Marxism
The communist and broadly socialist project have been marred by claims that it leads from workers power directly to authoritarianism. This claim has been echoed by both right-wing...
The Train is Capitalism- Snowpiercer and Class Consciouness
Bong Joon-Ho's film Snowpiercer (2013) is at first glance high concept sci-fi, yet a deeper look reveals it is a deep allegorical fantasy exploring class hierarchy and the...
Munkástanácsok in the Midst of the 1956 Revolution
“To be liberated by others, whose leadership is the essential part of the liberation, means the getting of new masters instead of the old ones.”1 - Anton Pannekoek
Every...
Singapore-Let they who reject meritocracy cast the first stone!
Yet more fodder for the outrage crowd, where the harsh and damning criticism fell upon NUS, AGC and the courts for such a ridiculous excuse for letting the...
Moderate Rebels say the Tatmadaw are the good guys!? is this...
I’ve followed the Moderate Rebels podcast for years now and it’s generally been a breath of fresh air when it comes to geopolitics. The hosts, Max Blumenthal and...
Is the UK a Managed Democracy?
'Managed Democracy' is a term usually used to refer to the variously oligarchic post-Soviet eastern European govts that have sprung up in the wake of vast privatisation, and...
The Dispossessed of Sudan and Global Capitalism
The story of the modern state of Sudan isn't too different from that of other African countries born out of the pores of the old, bloated corpses of...