One hears a lot these days about how the Burmese lack discipline and therefore are not fit for democracy. This is rather reminiscent of Winston Churchill’s famed wisdom in his considered opinion that the Burmese were not ready for independence…
Recent allegations in social media about the leadership of the ABFSU being in the hands of a “couple of commies” should come as no surprise to most people. [1] We have been there before so many times, and the finger pointing…
If people believe all that is going on in Burma today has very little connection to the wider world but that it is purely a domestic phenomenon the way things have evolved, they cannot be more wrong. Ever since the opening up…
MEMOIRS OF THE ANTIFASCIST REVOLUTION (Translation of an article written by late Bogyoke Kyaw Zaw and printed in Pyithu Arner (People’s Democracy) No. 22, 2012) March 27, 2002 is the fifty-seventh anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Revolution of the…
RINGING IN 2014 “Que sera, sera Whatever will be, will be The future’s not ours to see—-” But the year 2014 is just around the corner and its preceding year has foretold what may follow the next year. I shall…