The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF)

Balikatan 2023

Rasti Delizo, an international affairs analyst, longtime socialist activist in the Philippines and former vice president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers) discusses聽rising militarism in the Asia-Indo-Pacific region.

The Barack Obama administration鈥檚聽鈥淧ivot to Asia鈥 鈥斅爐he military, economic and political strategy to deploy more than half the US Navy to the Pacific 鈥 is continuing apace. Reihana Mohideen argues it needs to be resisted.

US-ASEAN Special Summit

The United States is aggressively seeking to revive its waning hegemonic role in the Asia-Pacific. In response, the following joint statement was issued by the Party of the Labouring Masses聽(Philippines), the Socialist Party of聽Malaysia聽and the Working People's Association (Indonesia).

New PM Anthony Albanese聽pledged his unswerving loyalty to the United States and its anti-China push at the Quad meeting in Japan, writes William Briggs.听