Japan
Workers' struggles in Asia (July 2010)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia (excluding China) during July up to the 23rd, and also some from the Indian Subcontinent that I came across whilst searching. I've been posting to a Twitter feed as I find stories: http://twitter.com/spartacusnews. I can't continue with it or these summaries for a few months, but it's possible someone else will take over some of it for a while.
libcom articles
Cambodian union calls off garment strike - http://libcom.org/news/cambodian-union-calls-garment-strike-13072010
Cambodian government and unions agree wage increase; strikes could still be on - http://bit.ly/9JZSXH
WSWS: Workers' Struggles in Asia Summaries
Workers' struggles in Asia (June 2010)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia (excluding China) during June, and also some from the Indian Subcontinent that I came across whilst searching. I now have a Twitter feed where I will be posting the stories I find, so if you don't want to wait until the end of the month to read them or would like to write up some of these for libcom news when they happen rather, please follow it: http://twitter.com/spartacusnews
libcom articles
Sleepless nights for bosses in the Bangladeshi garment sector
Strikes at Air India to continue despite sackings
WSWS: Workers' Struggles in Asia Summaries
28th of June ( http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/wkrs-j26.shtml )
19th of June ( http://bit.ly/dAA2si )
Workers' struggles in Asia (May 2010)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia (excluding China) during May. I now have a Twitter feed where I will be posting the stories I find, so if you don't want to wait until the end of the month to read them or would like to write up some of these for libcom news when they happen rather, please follow it: http://twitter.com/spartacusnews
libcom articles
In case you missed them, here are the articles that appeared on libcom relating to Asia this month.
Wildcat strike at Japanese electronics firm in Vietnam
Workers' struggles in Asia (April 2010 Part 2)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia (excluding China) from the 16th of April. Ed has written some of these up, so I've included links to his articles in case you missed them and links to any further reports that followed up on those incidents.
Cambodia
20th: Security guards in Siem Reap demand unpaid wages:
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010042037630/National-news/siem-reap-security-guards-demand-late-salaries.html
27th: Residents protest planned evictions around a lake.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010042738162/National-news/lake-plan-prompts-protest.html
Indonesia
Workers' struggles in Asia (April 2010 Part 1)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around East Asia (excluding China) up to the 15th of April.
Cambodia
4th: In another protest over land grabs, 10 villagers were arrested after 400 blocked a highway.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010040536860/National-news/ten-demonstrators-arrested.html
Indonesia
Workers' struggles in Asia (March 2010 Part 1)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around Asia (excluding China) in the first half of March up to the 15th.
Cambodia
2nd: Several protests over land seizures.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010030533113/National-news/mondulkiri-villagers-to-blame-over-land-row-chief.html
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010030232925/National-news/takhmao-protest-pre-empted.html
Book review: Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan - Subversion
A review of Hatta Shuzo and Pure Communism in Interwar Japan by John Crump. From Subversion #17 (1995).
In this year when we have been bombarded with so much nauseating propaganda over "VJ Day", how inspiring it is to read of men and women who were as far removed as anyone could be from the racist stereotype of all Japanese as emperor-worshipping nationalist fanatics, and who stood instead for a world of no classes, no markets, no states, no frontiers, no wars.
Workers' struggles in Asia (January 2010 Part 2)
Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around Asia (excluding mainland China and Hong Kong) in the last half of January.
Sorted by country in alphabetical order.
Cambodia
25th: A union plans demonstrations and strikes over the murder of one of their leaders was killed.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010012531034/National-news/chea-mony-strike-must-follow-the-law-ministry.html
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1162315&lang=eng_news
General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
American left communist Loren Goldner on the capitalist development of east Asia, working class struggle, and the development of revolutionary politics in the region in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Published in 2009.
…in China as in Japan, the writings of the young Marx that laid the foundation for Marx’s uncompromising critique of the state were conspicuously absent…Marxism was scientific socialism as systematized by Engels and then by Stalin, even as Stalin was seeking not to eliminate but to build a powerful Russian nation-state after the revolution.”
World War II: a people's war? - Howard Zinn
Historian Howard Zinn critically analyses the conception that World War II was really a "people's war" against fascism, as opposed to yet another inter-imperialist conflict with nothing to offer working people.
