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| Taiwan
New president, old elite – assessing Taiwan’s forthcoming 2016 election from a working class viewpoint.There will be three presidential candidates competing in Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election. They are Tsai Ying Wen the leader of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Eric Chu who represents the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) and James Soong from the People First Party (PFP). According to pre-election opinion polls, Tsai Ying Wen’s popularity rating is the highest, much greater than that of Eric Chu and his party that is currently in power. The third competitor James Soong’s influence is relatively insignificant. Therefore, people are expecting that the opposition party, the DPP, will defeat the KMT. The result of this ongoing campaign seems quite predictable. -> read article... |
| South Africa
Soweto: the black students’ rebellion of 1976Its forty years today since a peaceful demonstration by black students in Soweto was met by brutal police violence. resulting in the death of twenty three people. -> read article... |
| Pakistan
Demanding land rights is not terrorismA massive repression of the most militant but peaceful peasant movement in Pakistan —the Anjman Mozareen Punjab (AMP)—is underway. Most of its leadership has been arrested under false anti-terrorist laws. Dozens are missing while over 50 remain behind bars. All have been declared “terrorists” by the Okara district police, working hand in hand with the Military Farms administration, which mainly serves military officers. -> read article... |