Myanmar
Which way is Myanmar going? Print E-mail
By Fred Weston   
Friday, 28 September 2007
More people have been killed in Myanmar (Burma) as the military try and hold back the wave of protest. But pressure is building up on the regime. Whether it will clamp down firmly or move in the direction of negotiations depends on the power of the movement in the coming days.
 
The tragedy of Myanmar Print E-mail
By Fred Weston   
Thursday, 27 September 2007
The sudden steep increase in the price of fuel in Myanmar (Burma) in August pushed the already impoverished masses beyond the limit. Now a mass movement threatens to overthrow the rotten military regime. But the lack of a genuine workers’ alternative has left a vacuum into which the bourgeois opposition are stepping.
 
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