Black Scare in Asia: Governments blame “anarchists” for mass discontent
From Freedom News UK by Simoun Magsalin
Popular uprisings in the Philippines, Nepal and Indonesia need no help to be leaderless
From Freedom News UK by Simoun Magsalin
Popular uprisings in the Philippines, Nepal and Indonesia need no help to be leaderless
From Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (KRAS)
On December 27-29, the 3rd conference (“convergence”) of anarcho-syndicalists from Asia-Pacific countries was held in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. It was attended by delegates from Australia, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia, representatives of the Secretariat of the International Labor Association and the M.A.T. Sub-Secretariat in Asia-Pacific, as well as on-line comrades from a number of other countries.
From The Commoner by Liao
Throughout my time as an anarchist, I have become intimately familiar with many schools and theories of anarchist thought. The most influential to me are that of anarchist communism, individualist anarchism, synthesis anarchism, and Black anarchism. Black anarchism was particularly influential to me for its unique perspective on how capitalism and the State intersect with racism to more extensively affect Black communities — along with its criticism of class reductionism within leftist movements. As an Asian American, Black anarchism led me to wonder if there was a similar tradition that involved ideas of Asian cultures and historical practices with anarchism, an Asian anarchism.
From Beehive Design Collective
August 14, 2023
From February until May 2023, our family of Bees went to the Asia Pacific region to tour with the Beehive’s True Cost of Coal and Mesoamérica Resiste graphics, inspiring discussions about the intersections of colonialism, resource extraction, corporate globalization, workers movements and climate change. All in all, we did over 100 presentations at 70 different events, including an 8,000-person electronic music festival, a buddhist temple, bookstores, occupations, street parties, community centres, conferences, cafes, protests and 12 different schools, from middle schools to universities in Aotearoa, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan.
From Asia Pacific IWA (Facebook link)
June 13, 2023
Comrades from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand attended the 2nd Asia Pacific IWA Convergence in Jakarta 10/11 June.
from It's Going Down
Some work needs little introduction. Please enjoy this banger from Simoun Magsalin, whose writing on anarchy in the Philippines we’ve had the pleasure to publish previously.