Asia & the Pacific

mass protest in Bangladesh

Mukta Barai is President of the Socialist Students Front, the student wing of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, and played a leading role in the recent protests. She spoke with Susan Price and Jacob Andrewartha about the political situation in Bangladesh and the challenges for the democratic movement.

Leftist writer and academic Farooq Sulehria, who is editor of Jeddojehad.com, interviewed Bangladeshi scholar Navine Murshid about the student protests which brought down the government of Bangladesh.

Labor has launched its push to become听a renewable energy 鈥渟uperpower鈥. But, as Peter Boyle argues,听any imagining of a green future needs to break imperial and colonialist power relations with the Global South.

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Mat Ward's latest album, Take the Rad Pill, fuses future bass, drum and bass, punk, electronic dance music and politics for a different sound, writes Susan Price.

mass student protest in Bangladesh

Unlike previous anti-government protests in Bangladesh, this year's movement was predominantly driven by ordinary people, especially university students and recent graduates, writes Sabrina Syed.

Clifton D'Rozario in 2024

Clifton D鈥橰ozario, a leading member of the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation) (CPIML) recently spoke to 麻豆传媒's Isaac Nellist about the parallels between Zionism and the ideology of Hindu supremacy.

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Student protests erupted across India after corruption was revealed around the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the leaking of university entrance exam papers, reports Isaac Nellist.

A public meeting discussed the disastrous legacy of the United States atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and the growing danger of Australia becoming involved in a possible nuclear war stemming from AUKUS. Jim McIlroy reports.

Richard Marles, Penny Wong, Antony Blinken

Defence minister Richard Marles and foreign affairs minister Penny Wong groveled more than usual at the annual AUSMIN meeting as they promised to push forward on AUKUS nuclear submarines and bases. Pip Hinman reports.听

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Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation leader Clifton D鈥橰ozario speaks to 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Federico Fuentes about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi鈥檚 role as a global far-right leader and the impact of US-China tensions on South Asian politics and struggles.

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Two years after the popular anti-government uprising, the struggle for democracy in Sri Lanka remains fragile, writes Janaka Biyanwila.

woman bucketing mud from her flooded home

The southwest monsoon, exacerbated by super typhoon Carina (Gaemi) has caused widespread flooding and devastation in the Philippines and Taiwan, killing 25 people and causing mass displacement, reports Susan Price.