Asia
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The colonial origins of Pakistan’s floods
The interests of western imperialism and allied local elites have combined to exacerbate the scale and impact of Pakistan’s floods, writes Shozab Raza
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Listen to local voices, not the US or China, on Taiwan
Brian Hioe looks at the tensions and misunderstandings surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s visit and how Western leftists routinely ignore local demands from Taiwan
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The campaign for a democratic socialist Philippines
Following the victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in this year’s Philippine presidential election, Walden Bello details how he and Leody de Guzman sought to forge a new path for a revitalised Philippine left
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Imran Khan: anti-imperialist hero or authoritarian populist?
Tooba Syed dismantles the myths surrounding the former cricketer’s supposedly anti-imperialist tenure in Pakistan
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Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in China
Qiuyan Chen sued the Chinese ministry of education over homophobic textbooks. She writes about her battle for LGBTQ+ rights in China and the UK
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Compulsory voting: the debate
Judith Brett outlines Australia’s experience with – and makes the case for – compulsory voting, whilst Daniel Chavez shows how, for the left in Uruguay, compulsory voting is an essential foundation on which more direct forms of democracy have been built
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The war on the Uyghurs
Moazzam Begg joins the dots between his own experience of the ‘war on terror’ and the repression of the Uyghur people at the hands of the Chinese state