Asia

Asia

• Sri Lanka: manipulating a terrorist outrage

  

  From draconian emergency powers to a ban on Muslim women’s face coverings, a delinquent government seeks to mask its own catastrophic failures, writes Susan Ram

• Eurozone blues

  

  The economic crisis intensifies across Europe, with the US and south east Asia close behind, argues Chris Bambery

• Marx, colonialism and the Global South - Counterfire Media Podcast

  

  Chris Nineham talks to American author and Marxist historian on Marx, colonialism and the Global South, and how Marx's ideas were ahead of their time in the fifth episode of Counterfire Media's Podcast

• Imran Khan: Pakistan's new anti-war Prime Minister?

  

  Imran Khan's electoral victory offers Pakistan the potential for a break from neoliberalism and the War on Terror argues Sohaib Khan

• Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima

  

  William Andrews' Dissenting Japan provides a history of radical politics in a post-war Japan shaped by the needs of US imperialism, finds Sean Ledwith

• When the US was charged with war crimes

  

  Tariq Ali introduces a film by Staffan Lamm on the international war crimes tribunal charging the US with aggression and war crimes in Vietnam in 1967