Tag: history

“Kill any of the natives found in their way”

The White Man’s Law was an ass in Australia in 1799, and so it was in Burma in the 1890’s, and so It has been in Palestine since the 1930’s.

/ March 30, 2026

The Sun has Set on Empire: Let’s Reimagine Southeast Asia

The struggle for racial, political and economic justice in Southeast Asia is a fight for a genuinely postcolonial condition, and its establishment is implied in each protest against authoritarian ambitions. If colonialism made the modern world, then decolonisation will not be complete until the world – including Southeast Asia – is reimagined.

/ February 20, 2021