#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #THAILAND #BANGKOK #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Thailand: Young anarchists fight the police with fireworks - By A.N.A. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This week, clashes broke out in Bangkok between police and young anarchists

protesting against the authoritarian regime of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
This image comes from the Din Daeng area of Bangkok, where young anarchists
responded to the police with fireworks and firecrackers. In 2020, young Thais
unleashed the biggest wave of anti-government protests since the 2014 military
coup. ---- Apparently, the protests were led by the anarchist group "Thalugas"
(which roughly translates to "break with tear gas"), which has played a very
active role in previous anti-government protests. In the past there have been
many similar protests in Bangkok, as Thai youth are very frustrated with the
state. ---- Thalugas protesters are mostly working-class and poor youth. Since
2021, they have undertaken militant actions against the injustice of the military
dictatorship and the Thai monarchy.

Basically, the protests are directed against an economic and political system
that has been in place for decades and that has three privileged groups of
participants. The first is a thin 1% of the population, which owns two-thirds of
all Thai assets, according to the Germany-based Heinrich Böll Foundation. The
second is the army, which is also endowed with many financial privileges and is
intertwined with state-owned enterprises. And in third place is the richest
monarchy in the world, which continues to exert a strong political influence.

The 2014 military coup further consolidated this system. The military sees itself
as the guardians of the monarchy, and is not subject to civilian control.

Thailand's right-wing military dictatorship has also maintained a close
relationship with the United States, participating in an annual military exercise
called Cobra Gold with over 10,000 US soldiers in February and March 2022. These
military exercises are significant to the states' imperialist ambitions. United
in Asia, which try to counter the rapid decline of US hegemony and the rise of
China as a world economic superpower.

Source:
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/06/15/anarchist-youth-fight-police-with-fireworks-in-thailand/

Translation > Sun of April

https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2022/06/17/tailandia-jovens-anarquistas-combatem-a-policia-com-fogos-de-artificio/
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