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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Max Lane |Bharat Dogra |Sandeep Pandey
A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal. The AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, envisaging the transfer and building of nuclear-powered submarines to the Royal Australian Navy, continues operating in haphazard fashion.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thetricontinental.org | Max Lane
On September 18, an estimated 60,000 trade unionists massed in Melbourne to protest the national government’s usurp of the Construction Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), the Construction Division of one of Australia’s biggest trade unions.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Max Lane
September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the UK and the U.S. This increases interoperability with U.S. forces that are projecting their power in the region along the Chinese coast.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Max Lane
September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the UK and the U.S. This increases interoperability with U.S. forces that are projecting their power in the region along the Chinese coast.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
aliran.com | Max Lane
Follow us on our Malay and English WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Tiktok and Youtube channels. By Max Lane15 September marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the Aukus Australia-UK-US (Aukus) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the UK and the US. This increases interoperability with US forces that are projecting their power in the region along the Chinese coast.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Max Lane |Binoy Kampmark |Bharat Dogra |Suresh Khairnar
September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the UK and the U.S. This increases interoperability with U.S. forces that are projecting their power in the region along the Chinese coast.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
fulcrum.sg | Max Lane
Especially during the last ten years, it has often been through works of art and literature that the erosion of the taboo against discussing publicly the politics of the mass killings of 1965 has been accelerated. Even under the authoritarian New Order, literature, such as the novels and prison notebooks of Indonesia’s greatest author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, had played such a role.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
fulcrum.sg | Max Lane
Throughout Indonesia on 22 August, thousands of students, workers, the urban poor and middle class people took to the streets to protest the passing of a law annulling a ruling of the Constitutional Court (MK) delivered two days prior. The passing of the Bill has been shelved, but there is a lingering suspicion among protestors that President Joko Widodo might be against resurrecting it. The MK’s decision was a response to two cases brought to it.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
fulcrum.sg | Max Lane
The successful registration of the Workers Party (Partai Buruh, PB) for Indonesia’s 2024 parliamentary (DPR) elections attracted considerable attention among commentators and especially among Indonesia’s civil society community. Until 2024, almost all the parties in parliament could trace their origins back to the New Order period.
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May 20, 2024 | 
iseas.edu.sg | Max Lane
The course of the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary elections confirmed the absence of substantive ideological differences among all the parties, despite rhetorical positioning by candidates. Since the elections, there has been constant speculation about how the political parties and figures would relate to each other after the elections, especially about which parties would join the governing parties and when.
