Category: Asia/World
Asian–African Conference at Bandung April 1955. Wikimedia Commons.
The Bandung Spirit and UNDROP
by Shalmali Guttal Presentation at the Public Discussion: Commemorating 70 years of the...
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Reawakening the Spirit of Bandung: Intensifying a Storm of Resistance for Palestine
by Galileo de Guzman Castillo I hadn’t known that under our skins There is a birth...
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Thailand and the 1955 Bandung Conference: Small Nation and the Age of Anxiety
by Kheetanat Wannaboworn “Should Thailand decide to accept the invitation to the conference, the...
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Unmasking Memories of Feminist Anti-Imperialist Movement: Where Were the Women in Bandung Conference?
by Salsabila Putri Noor Aziziah* Progressive struggles around the world have been masked by the...
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International Day of Peasant Struggles: Joint Statement of Peasant and Solidarity Organizations
Today, we join hands with peasants, fisher peoples, landless rural workers, small-scale food...
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Key Profiles at the Bandung Conference
Between 18 and 24 April 1955, 29 nations from the continents of Asia and Africa gathered at Gedung...
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Salsabila Putri Noor Aziziah on Feminist Solidarity Against Extractivist Economies
At a regional workshop in Bangkok titled Global Finance: Crisis and Response, Salsabila Putri Noor...
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The quote from MAW Brouwer is on the pedestrian bridge wall on the Asia-Afrika street. The street, previously known as Groote Postweg (in English: the Great Post Road), was named to honor the Asia-Africa Conference. Wikimedia Commons.
A City That Once Burned for Freedom: The Bandung That Was, The Bandung That Is
by Anisa Widyasari Right in the middle of one of the busiest streets in the city, on the...
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The heads of state and government, accompanied by heads of delegation of Asian–African countries taking a group photo at the 60th anniversary of the original 1955 Asian–African Conference as the peak event of the 2015 Asian–African Summit at the Merdeka Building in Bandung, West Java, on Friday (24/4). (ANTARA FOTO/AACC2015/M Agung Rajasa/15.)
The Long March from Bandung to the BRICS
by Walden Bello, with contributions from Shalmali Guttal The Bandung Conference in April...
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CHANGE? (FOR WHAT, FOR WHOM?) Bonifacio Day Mobilization. Manila, Philippines. 2016 November 30. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
Peoples’ Victories: A Watershed of Radical Hopes
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo The year 2024 saw a critical conjuncture for democracy as 3.7...
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Celebrating 30 Years of Focus on the Global South: Demanding Climate Justice, Expanding the Commons and Public Economy, and Promoting Real Security
When Focus was founded 30 years ago in 1995, it was up against the confident assertion of global...
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2024: the year crises got worse, but can things get better?
December 30 2024 Focus on the Global South Two thousand and twenty-four was marked by three...
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