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The remains of a paper comparing the defeat of BN/UMNO to the fall of the Mexican PRI and Taiwanese KMT in 2000, and their subsequent return. In 2021, Japan now appears to be a better comparison.
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Tracing the institutional and structural history of how Malaysia ended up in this mess, facing political turmoil, a raging pandemic and widespread econ…
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A research proposal I had written back in 2018 on industrial democracy that married my obsession with the two revolutions and workers control.
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A brief analysis of the Latin American Left and its recent resurgence in light of the Peruvian elections.
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Malaysia’s democracy is incomplete, much of our civil liberties are fragile and often at the mercy of a powerful state and corporations that have gone …
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A preliminary examination of communal and capitalist realism in Malaysia, and the forces that reproduce it. 'It's easier to imagine the end of the worl…
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Locating the Political Testament of API within the tradition of Third World Nationalism and Socialism.
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Imagining an unconventional strategy to defend the forest reserve as well as open up new political possibilities.
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