Tag: Bangladesh
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The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
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To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a ‘democracy icon’ because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time as the US-led western coalition that was isolating Rangoon for its alliance with China. Aung San Suu…
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For Those Who Know Little or Nothing about Labor: Building Global Labor Solidarity Today
Earlier this year, a collection of papers was published under the title of Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time of Accelerating Globalization (Scipes, ed., 2016). It was a strong effort by seven labor activists and scholars from different parts of the world to think out how workers today can support each other globally; initially…