Conditions rapidly worsening for victims of Myanmar earthquake
The massive disaster has struck a country already reeling from widespread poverty, food insecurity and civil war.
•Ben McGrath
Myanmar (Burma)
Huge earthquake causes death and destruction in Myanmar and Thailand
More than 700 people have been killed and at least 1,670 injured, but the death toll could rise into the thousands as rescue operations get underway in Myanmar, where the quake was centred.
•Peter Symonds
Typhoon Yagi wreaks havoc across Southeast Asia
As with every major disaster, the effects expose the incompatibility of human life with the profit system based on exploitation and national rivalry.
•Robert Campion
2022 San Francisco International Film Festival—Part 2
Midwives, Mija, Întregalde, Bitterbrush: Documenting dictatorship, immigration, poverty ...
Midwives documents the intense relationship between a Buddhist midwife and her Muslin apprentice in Myanmar.
•Joanne Laurier
One year since the military coup in Myanmar
On every front, the junta confronts a worsening impasse, which cannot be resolved through its methods of brute force.
•Peter Symonds
Military show trial of Suu Kyi begins in Myanmar
Behind the travesty of the closed-door proceedings, the fight against the junta raises major political issues for workers and youth.
•Mike Head
Death toll in Myanmar tops 700 after ruthless military crackdown on Bago city
The junta’s escalation of lethal violence and repression against protesters has failed to prevent daily demonstrations from continuing across Myanmar.
•Owen Howell
Myanmar: Protests continue despite fierce military repression
Following a surge of violence in the final weekend of March which saw 169 civilians killed including 14 children, anti-coup demonstrations have reportedly become smaller and shorter.
•Robert Campion
Myanmar military guns down 114 people in deadliest daily toll
While the protest movement has involved broad layers of the population, opposition leaders have limited its aims to the reinstatement of a government led by Suu Kyi.
•Peter Symonds
Massive deadly fires in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camp
Having been driven out of neighbouring Myanmar, nearly 900,000 refugees remain trapped in squalid and unsafe shanty towns in one of the poorest countries in the world.
•Mike Head
Martial law imposed in Myanmar cities as death toll rises
The military’s efforts to drown the protests in blood are intensifying, specifically targeting the city of Yangon and workers associated with the strike movement.
•Owen Howell
Bloodiest crackdown yet on Myanmar protests
The wave of killings over the weekend, which claimed at least 72 lives, is further proof that the junta is determined to crush all opposition.
•Owen Howell
Myanmar’s military junta targets striking railway workers
The work stoppages are having a significant impact on the economy and the functioning of the junta, which has responded with brutal repression—searches and arrests, the shooting down of protesters, and the torture and murder of prisoners.
•Peter Symonds
Disastrous impact of COVID-19 on Bangladeshi migrant workers
Indifferent to the COVID-19 dangers facing Bangladeshi migrant workers, Prime Minister Sheik Hasina wants to send more to “new labour markets” so as to arrest falling remittance income.
•Wimal Perera
Widespread work stoppages in Myanmar against February 1 military coup
The continued protests and strikes are testimony to the determination of the working class to resist military rule in the face of increasingly brutal repression.
•Peter Symonds
Myanmar military unleashes bloodiest crackdown since coup
Despite the dramatic intensification of the military’s killings last Wednesday, anti-coup protests and strikes have continued around the country on a daily basis.
•Owen Howell
Violent crackdown on Myanmar protests leaves 18 dead
The military junta has launched a ruthless offensive against the nationwide movement of protests and strikes that erupted after the February 1 coup.
•Owen Howell
Workers across Myanmar stage general strike against military dictatorship
The turnout at Monday’s protests and strikes throughout Myanmar was the largest since the February 1 coup, despite threats from the military that a general strike would lead to further “loss of life.”
•Owen Howell
How to fight for democracy in Myanmar
The only social force capable of carrying out a consistent struggle for democratic rights is the working class, as part of the broader struggle to refashion society to meet the pressing needs of the majority—that is, along socialist lines.
•Peter Symonds
Burmese police attack striking railway workers; West Bengal contract teachers demand equal pay; Australia: NSW ambulance paramedics to protest casualisation
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
Burmese police attack striking railway workers; West Bengal contract teachers demand equal pay; Australia: NSW ambulance paramedics to protest casualisation
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