Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Protests demand justice for migrant workers
“To achieve justice we must change the whole system!”
Asia
Thailand
Thailand: Prolonged political crisis
Working class and rural poor need party of their own
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Over one hundred killed in election sham
Both sides mired in corruption and violence
India
India: Alfa Laval Workers’ Strike
Workers from Swedish company Alfa Laval India Pvt Ltd. situated at Kasarwadi, Pune are on strike for the last three months
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Second anniversary of Zhanaozen marked by hearing in European Parliament
European business connives at suppression of democratic rights.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: How can the democracy struggle go forward?
Between 20,000 and 30,000 march on New Year’s Day, but frustration and divisions are rising within the pro-democracy struggle
China
China: Zhou Yongkang: Has Xi caught a ‘tiger’?
Politically explosive investigation of former security czar marks a new phase of internal power struggle
Asia
Asia Pacific: A new order developing
World moving from being ‘unipolar’ to ‘bipolar’
China
China: Third Plenum – more market, more dictatorship
Xi Jinping’s shift from dictatorship-by-committee to new ‘paramount leader’ is a high-risk strategy
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Supreme Court in Astana denies justice for Vadim Kuramshin
Urgent solidarity needed