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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK — FOCUS ON ASIA  
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_ This week: News and analyses from Asian parties and movements _

Protest art lights up the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Credit,
Voice7 News

 

* Partial Victory in Indonesia
* Sri Lanka: The Left is On the March
* Revival in Singapore
* Podcast: New Leader of Parti Sosialis Malaysia
* Beyond the Bangladesh Uprising
* Afghan Women Flood Social Media With Protest
* Iraqi Women Condemn Child Labor
* Nurses Striking Around Iran
* Pakistan Reports
* MN Roy and Post-Colonial Marxism

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Partial Victory in Indonesia
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_Rudi Hartono and Peter Boyle_ / Green Left (Sydney)

The protests were an accumulation of pent-up frustration. Unemployment
is rising and job opportunities are shrinking. With few job
opportunities and rampant nepotism in hiring, young Indonesians are
particularly sensitive to issues of political dynasties. They are
outraged by President Jokowi’s push to have his son run for Vice
President by arbitrarily changing laws.

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SRI LANKA: THE LEFT IS ON THE MARCH
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_Britta Petersen_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)

The sole candidate who is expected to challenge the existing regime is
Anura Kumara Dissanayake (also known as AKD) from the socialist
People’s Liberation Front (JVP). His victory would represent a
decisive break with the established elites and the country’s
political system which they control. In light of the widespread
discontent amongst the population, conditions may be ripe for his
victory.

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REVIVAL IN SINGAPORE
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_Elijah Tay, Lynn, Nova Sobieralski, Jacob Andrewartha and Alex
Salmon_ / Links (Sydney)

It is important to note that this new left did not just happen — it
took a lot of work and organising to make sure it is not just a flash
in the pan. People may have ideas, leanings and concerns, but these
have to be organised and linked back to the issue of class. This takes
conscious effort and grassroots work. That is the kind of activism we
have been slowly putting in to rebuild the left in Singapore.

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PODCAST: NEW LEADER OF PARTI SOSIALIS MALAYSIA
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_Sivaranjani Manickam_ / Beyond the Ballot Box (Kuala Lumpur)

Sivaranjani Manickam has been elected the new secretary-general of
Parti Sosialis Malaysia at its 26th national congress, which took
place at the end of July. She’s been an activist for more than 20
years, been a member of PSM for almost as long and has also worked for
UNHCR. 

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BEYOND THE BANGLADESH UPRISING
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_Anu Muhammad and Manoranjan Pegu_ / Asian Labour Review (Hong Kong)

What has driven the protesters’ anger? How we may situate
it against the country’s neoliberal authoritarian development that
has led to sharpening inequality and undermined the life chances of
millions of workers and students? Anger, passion and sadness, mixed
with determination among the youth, have led to a kind of movement we
haven’t seen in decades. 

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AFGHAN WOMEN FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA WITH PROTEST
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Firstpost (Mumbai)

Several Afghan women have launched online protests by uploading videos
of themselves singing in defiance of the Taliban’s latest laws.
Women from both Afghanistan and abroad challenged these rules by
singing about their struggle for freedom. The lyrics of most of these
songs referenced the harsh realities faced by Afghan women since the
Taliban returned to power in 2021.

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IRAQI WOMEN CONDEMN CHILD LABOR
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_Alex MacDonald_ / Middle East Eye (London)

Women's rights campaigners took to the streets across Iraq on August
8, protesting changes to legislation that could enshrine
sectarianism in family relationships and open the door to child
marriage. The demonstrations were organised by Coalition 188, a group
of NGOs, politicians and activists opposed to amending the Personal
Status law, also known as Law No 188, first passed in 1959.

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NURSES STRIKING AROUND IRAN
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Center for Human Rights in Iran (New York)

Peaceful protests erupted following the death of Parvaneh Mandani, a
32-year-old nurse from Fars Province, on August 2. Believed to have
died from overwork, Mandani’s death has become a rallying cry for
nurses across the country. As of August 27, strikes and
demonstrations have been reported in major cities.

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PAKISTAN REPORTS

• HAQOOQ-E-KHALQ PARTY
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  _Tanya Singh and Ammar Ali Jan_ / Progressive International

• BALOCH YAKJEHTI COMMITTEE
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  _Zofeen T Ebrahim_ / The Guardian (London)

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MN ROY AND POST-COLONIAL MARXISM
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_Kris Manjapra_ / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

M. N. Roy was a revolutionary activist across national borders, from
his home country of India to Mexico and the USSR. Roy rejected
Eurocentric versions of Marxism, and his ideas about the postcolonial
state are strikingly relevant to Indian politics today. From his
origins as a young insurgent in Calcutta in the 1910s, he became a
high-level Comintern leader in 1920s Moscow.

* Indonesia
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* Sri Lanka
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* Anura Kumara Dissanayake
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* Singapore
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* Parti Sosialis Malaysia
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* Sivaranjani Manickam
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* Bangladesh
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* Afghanistan
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* Afghan women
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* social media
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* Iraq
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* Iraqi women
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* Iran
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* Nurses
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* strike
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* Pakistan
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* Haqooq-e-Khalq
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* Baloch Yakjehti Committee
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* Mahrang Baloch
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* Ammar Ali Jan
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* M.N. Roy
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