Asia Newsletter

When Washington can freeze a nation’s money at will, the answer emerging from the recent summit in India was not a rival currency but a quiet rewiring of how countries pay one another.

In the Republic of Korea, the fight against foreign bases runs through mass graves and camptown burial grounds – this August, organisers from six countries and territories joined that fight on the ground.

Missile units on southern islands, troops moving on civilian ferries, command bunkers dug underground: a grassroots movement across Japan is trying to halt the drift back towards imperial confrontation. Remembering the 81st anniversary of the…

From Colombo to Kathmandu, a stratum treated as disposable has learned to bring down governments – but power keeps passing to armies, technocrats, and the right. Why?

Fifty years after the fifth Non-Aligned summit, delegates from fifteen countries gathered in Colombo to demand an end to foreign bases, debt bondage, regime change, and brain capture in Asia.  

Fifty-one years after victory over Washington’s war machine, Vietnam faces a subtler assault – sanctions, debt, and covert subversion – and answers with a commitment to peace and development.

When the last US soldier left Taiwan in 1979, Washington’s grip did not loosen – it simply changed shape, shifting from barracks and warships to classrooms, newsrooms, and the minds of a generation.

The foreign military bases sold to Persian Gulf monarchies as protection have instead pulled them into a war they never chose – turning their own territory into the first target struck when retaliation arrives.

Decades of organising transformed a divided society through public education, healthcare, cooperatives, and cadre formation – showing how popular power can survive defeat at the ballot box and keep reshaping democracy.

Women intellectuals and activists from across Asia gathered to expose a single truth: US military bases scattered across the continent do not protect their hosts – they import war, poison the land, and exact a…

From Okinawa’s farmers to the Philippines’ ‘Magnificent 12’, Asia’s peoples have confronted US militarism before – a tradition more urgent now as the New Cold War arrives on their shores.

Nepal’s left has suffered a historic electoral rout. A veteran communist reflects on the ideological drift, generational disconnect, and geopolitical pressures that brought the movement to this crossroads – and what must be done now.