Why A Labour Movement is Essential to Malaysia’s Democracy?
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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 unchallenged since our independence. Malaysian economic and political elites respond to the growing inequality and suffering amongst us with mere crumbs and rhetoric. Beyond the fragmented opposition parties and civil society, there is no unified force strong enough to mount such a challenge against them. The formal institutions of power, be it the legislature or the judiciary, lack the direct authority and political will to defend the interest of the Rakyat. Until ordinary Malaysians find the vehicle to enact that change, capitalism, and the state that it is bound to, will continue to reproduce the immiseration and injustice it has always brought about.
Why A Labour Movement is Essential to Malaysia’s Democracy?
Why A Labour Movement is Essential to…
Why A Labour Movement is Essential to Malaysia’s Democracy?
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 unchallenged since our independence. Malaysian economic and political elites respond to the growing inequality and suffering amongst us with mere crumbs and rhetoric. Beyond the fragmented opposition parties and civil society, there is no unified force strong enough to mount such a challenge against them. The formal institutions of power, be it the legislature or the judiciary, lack the direct authority and political will to defend the interest of the Rakyat. Until ordinary Malaysians find the vehicle to enact that change, capitalism, and the state that it is bound to, will continue to reproduce the immiseration and injustice it has always brought about.