Asia & the Pacific

Victory for farmers in India!

On Nov. 19, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the fascist Bharatiya Janata Party, declared that he would concede…

November 22, 2021

First clinic for transgender youth established in China

The Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, located in Shanghai, has announced the establishment of a health clinic to safely manage…

November 15, 2021

Protest targets discrimination against Koreans living in Japan 

  A demonstration in front of the Japanese Consulate in New York City on Oct. 28, with drums, chants and…

November 4, 2021

U.S. protesters demand release and repatriation of Aafia Siddiqui

Reprint from Al Jazeera Excerpts from an article in Al Jazeera Dozens of protesters and human rights activists are calling…

October 28, 2021

South Korea general strike organizes answer to ‘Squid Game’

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, which has 1.1 million members, called a one-day general strike on Oct. 20. Over…

October 25, 2021

Free U.S. political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui!

The case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is another great miscarriage of justice in the long history of the U.S. legal-carceral…

October 21, 2021

Lakhimpur Kheri Massacre
India escalates terror targeting farmers

Farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh, India, organized a demonstration Oct. 3. At the protest Ashish Mishra, the son…

October 13, 2021

Action at Carswell prison: ‘Free Aafia Siddiqui!’

By Alex Colwell Carswell, Texas When Tania and I arrived at the Sept. 18 protest for Pakistani political prisoner Dr.…

September 23, 2021

Stop U.S. submarine warfare!

The Biden administration’s latest foreign policy step has sharpened U.S. imperialism’s global conflict with the People’s Republic of China. It…

September 20, 2021

Argentine Marxist:
Afghanistan an imperialist defeat, but no analogy to Saigon 1975

By Mario Hernández This Aug. 25 interview with Claudio Katz, Argentine member of Left Economists and political analyst, was published…

September 10, 2021