Category: Featured
Featured articles from FORSEA contributors.
Making the World a Better Place: Restitution and Restoration
This has been a hard essay to write, first because of the vast variety and accelerating pace of activity throughout the world demanding ‘action’; second because the project of restoration has yet to be paid the attention it requires; third because of the inexorable and unremitting degradation of the planet’s physical sub-systems as the metabolic rift deepens and becomes more complex; fourth because of the need to contain the scope...
British-Burmese Trade Union Solidarity Event. But we cannot NOT talk about Palestine.
The Holocaust and other acts of what Chomsky called "the great European pastimes" – mass killings in peace time or wars – gave us "international criminal and humanitarian law". Now the Great Law Creators are free to bin them – just like the British who invented slavery and the slave trade, just so they could claim "we abolished them"!
FORSEA-linked events in London and Bristol: On UK / Myanmar Trade Union Solidarity & Rohingya-Palestinian Solidarity
Though a SEA-rooted scholar-activist network, FORSEA continues to lend its voice of solidarity to the Palestinian struggle for liberation from the White Man's collective genocide in the colonially Occupied Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as Myanmar's trade union and other resistance movements against the genocidal Burmese military dictatorship.
Northern Irish Nobel Laureate Nominates Burmese Activist for 2024 Peace Prize
Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia (FORSEA) and the Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) jointly announced Maguire’s nomination, based on Zarni’s “impactful and tireless activism for peace and harmony among human communities over three decades”
While inviting foreign investment in Rakhine, Arakan Army Leadership displays deep-seated genocidal racism towards Rohingya in Western Myanmar
The extreme racism that Rakhine nationalists have, over the generations, displayed – their sense of racial and religious superiority vis-à-vis Rakhine state’s largest minority population of Rohingya, largely Muslims, their dogged attempts to deny and destroy Rohingya identity – appears to be their Achilles' heel.
Myanmar NUG and Ethnic Revolutionary Organizations need to walk their talk of gender – and ethnic – equality
The adviser to the Karen National Union, Naw May Oo Mutraw, critically challenges the simplistic portrayal of, and self-serving perception, regarding the all-too-obvious exclusively male revolutionary leadership of Myanmar resistance organizations.
On St Patrick’s Day, Mairead Maguire led public condemnation of the Irish American President Joe Biden’s genocidal role in Gaza
Quoting St Patrick of the 3rd Century AD who preached, “in Christ, there is no killing”, the Northern Irish peace activist and co-founder of the Peace People grassroots movement delivered a scathing indictment of non-stop killings over centuries by the “allegedly Christian" West.
“America? I love the republic, but I hate the Empire”: A Personal Tribute to Johan Galtung (24 Oct. 1930 – 17 Feb. 2024), the Man for Just Peace
Galtung made unparalleled intellectual and practical contributions to the advancement of our understanding of peace, its social objectives and the conditions for peace, in terms of our global understanding of such an elusive goal.
Burma undergoes quasi-Balkanization and the embattled junta resorts to mass conscription
No Burmese in their right minds have bought into the spin “service to the nation” from the junta leadership. Reportedly, young men and women are frantically finding ways to exit the country.
Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak on Israel
Drawing on one of the world’s most influential anti-colonial scholars and revolutionaries, Frantz Fanon, Professor Spivak speaks on the root cause of the unceasing waves of violence against and by Israel when she points out that the violence by the colonizer/oppressor violence generates violence by the colonized/oppressed. To end this, the colonial conditions must first end.