For three days, the streets of Timor-Leste’s capital Dili have been filled with thousands of young protesters, led largely by Timor-Leste’s Generation Z, frustrated by perks for parliamentarians, while their generation suffers poor education and an uncertain economic future, writes Ato ‘Lekinawa’ da Costa.
Asia & the Pacific
Anthony Albanese’s government is pushing bilateral security treaties with Pacific Island states as a matter of urgency, in a bid to shut China out. Binoy Kampmark reports.
Bougainville and West Papua represent two fundamentally different approaches to Indigenous struggles for self-determination, writes Ali Mirin.
The latest Green Left Show features Merck Maguddayao (Philippines), Suraendher Kumarr (Singapore), Gandipan Nantha Gopalan (Malaysia) and Jacob Andrewartha (Australia) in a round table discussion about imperialism in the Asia-Pacific, democracy and socialism.
As the Gen Z protest movement shook Nepal to its roots, Nepalese journalist and writer Manarishi Dhital — a veteran of the 1996–2006 People’s War against the monarchy — spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about why the movement is “re-awakening Nepal’s revolutionary spirit”.
Kathmandu is on edge, not because of “apps”, but because a generation raised on the promise of democracy and mobility has collided with an economy and political order that keep shutting every door, write Atul Chandra and Pramesh Pokharel.
Responding to the mass protests in Indonesia and the state’s heavy-handed repression, more than 250 local and international organisations and individuals have signed on to the following demands on the Indonesian government, reports Susan Price.
Rebecca Meckelburg looks at the growing discontent that led to mass protests across Indonesia.
Indonesian security forces opened fire on a peaceful protest in Sorong, West Papua, killing one person and injuring several others, reports Susan Price.
The Rohingya have endured repeated waves of violence, but the August 25, 2017, campaign by the military junta in Myanmar remains the most devastating, writes Noor Sadaque from Cox’s Bazar.
In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to author William Jefferies about the growing confrontation between the United States and China.
William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Jefferies about imperialism today and why the period of globalisation is coming to an end.
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