Charlie Thame
@charliethame.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of International Relations, Thammasat University, Bangkok. IR, critical theory, political economy, Southeast Asia.
“Across Asia, street vendors are paying the price for a war thousands of miles away, left exposed by the lack of government support for informal workers at a time of fiscal shock" hardstories.org/stories/gend...
A distant war reaches the women who feed Bangkok
Every morning before sunrise, Praewpan Nadtanara pushes a cart of curries and noodles through the streets of Bangkok. A distant war has made that harder than it used to be.
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Emily Hong's new book on Kachinland 👇
Stanford University Press@stanfordpress.bsky.social · 2d agoBorderland Solidarity is out! "Full of unexpected insights and methodological innovation, this book is a must read for all scholar-activists involved in fieldwork in the context of political struggles for freedom." —Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University https://ow.ly/U74E50ZA2Gx
Next week in Bangkok - Lessons from the Zapatistas, Lia Pinheiro, Peter Rosset
📖 Published in June 2026, Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations (by Shannon Brincat) brings together scholars who use dialectical methods from a variety of philosophical and civilizational systems to examine core problems in world politics 🔗 Learn more here: bit.ly/43fYn7u
A version of my EJIR article on Myanmar's Spring Revolution has been published in the International Marxist Humanist Organization Journal with a theoretical postscript on my social relational, historical materialist approach to IR. imhojournal.org/articles/mya...
Myanmar’s Redemptive Revolution - IMHO Journal
Summary: First appeared in European Journal of International Relations (Sept. 2024) doi.org/10.1177/13540661241289445 ; republished here with a theoretical postscript -- Editors
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This morning: the last in our Revolution & World Politics series: Dr. Janjira Sombatpoonsiri on "Gen. Z Protests in Asia: Autocratic Backlash, Repression, and Stagnation". Entirely online, all welcome! 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM (GMT+7, Bangkok) Registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
With a huge Junta push against Chin resistance forces underway to retake Falam & Surbung Airport, now is a good time to support AIF Myanmar who are working with Chin forces to fight the Junta.
Junta closes in on Falam, threatens Chin State's only airport
Capture of Surbung Airport could give the military an air resupply route to retake the state, defectors warn
myanmar-now.org
Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴@xunlingau.bsky.social · 8mo agoAIF Myanmar have a new fundraiser to support their drone program to support the resistance against the Junta. Can support them here: ko-fi.com/aifmyanmar Or via these platforms: Paypal: @AIFMYANMAR CashApp: #AIFMYANMAR Vemo: @AIFMYANMAR (Leave the notes section empty or non-descript)
Join us on Wed (10am BKK) for my Marxist humanist take on revolution in the 21stC, the world-historical context of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution, and how Myanmar is central, not peripheral, to transformations of world order. Now online only. Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join me for the morning shift tomorrow am at #HistorlcalMaterialism 2026. I’ll be presenting on internationalism in Myanmars Spring Revolution.
Join us this week for our second of four seminars on "Revolution and World Politics" with: "Lessons from the Zapatistas: From Armed Insurgency to People’s Autonomy" by Prof. Lia Pinheiro Barbosa & Prof. Peter Rosset. In person in Bangkok and online via Zoom.
This is a very good analysis of the shortcomings of and missteps by Thailand's People's Party. www.newmandala.org/a-reckoning-...
A reckoning for Thailand’s liberals - New Mandala
How the People’s Party failed its own cause
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Join us next week as we commence the Revolution and World Politics series with Professor George Lawson @georgelawson.bsky.social. His talk, ‘Revolutions are Back!’, will be delivered online on Wednesday 18th at 10am Bangkok time.
Excited to announce this stellar line up for our seminar series "Revolution and World Politics" hosted by the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University. Please join us for four talks in person, online, and hybrid in March and April.
An insightful interview exploring Myanmar's Spring Revolution from an anarchist perspective. “Many comrades I once struggled alongside are now armed. Five years have passed. They are no longer the same people. The gun has become their form of power.” crimethinc.com/2026/02/10/f...
Five Years of Coup: Burmese Anarchists within and without the Revolution
An activist who has organized in Burma and Thailand across a period of decades discusses the various ways people have resisted even under a military coup.
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KIO's rejoinder to China: "A high-ranking Chinese official asked us if we think we can defeat the military council. We asked in return - didn't those who were supported by America and Russia eventually flee to Taiwan, while those who had no one's support won? After that, they said nothing more."
“Rise of the People” Thai punk rock released on eve of Thai Election 2026 youtu.be/OgJRGJUNIVI “Wake up, we are the people. Rise up and fight it, authoritarians. Wake up, we are the people. Sing the melody of the masses.“
StageClear - เราคือประชาชน (Rise of the People)
YouTube video by StageClear Official Channel
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This is really good on the predicament faced by progressives in Thailand as regards the question of the party in the bourgeois state. fulcrum.sg/the-roots-of...
The Roots of the People’s Party’s Pragmatism | FULCRUM
As the People’s Party moves towards elite accommodation and electoral pragmatism, it is facing a growing crisis of identity and legitimacy.
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'We shouted together, “Neither Shah nor Mullah, Power to the Councils!”. ... they’ve made us feel so powerless that we always think we need a savior to pull us out of our predicament, but it’s us who have come to the streets and struggled for years.'
Longing for Liberation, Trapped Between Two Reactionary Forces – Feminists4Jina
A report from December–January 2025 (Dey 1404) , Tehran — days of tension, anxiety, and disbelief - The following text is a report by a comrade who has recently left Iran. It is based on their direct ...
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Fri: @epf.bsky.social will give talk "The Political economy of Rohingya mass violence: The Centrifugal/Centripetal Dialectic of Racial Capitalism" w/ @charliethame.bsky.social at Thammasat University, Bangkok & University of Konstanz host screening of "Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar" 10/
For those in Bangkok next week please join us on Tha Prachan campus to hear Elliott Prasse-Freeman (@epf.bsky.social) to discuss his ongoing research. "The Political Economy of Rohingya Mass Violence: The Centrifugal/Centripetal Dialectic of Racial Capitalism"
#OpenAccess from our latest issue - The tripartite structure of critical international theory - https://cup.org/4nZPiaJ "proposes a more radical and realistic approach to critical international theory based on a reappraisal of Andrew Linklater’s oeuvre" - @charliethame.bsky.social
La Via Campesina's statement of solidarity with Myanmar: "Working people and peasants remain the backbone of Myanmar’s resistance ... We stand in unwavering solidarity with Myanmar’s peasants and working people — and with their Spring Revolution!" viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/m...
Myanmar: La Via Campesina in Solidarity with Peasants and Workers facing brutal repression
For over four and a half years, the junta has deliberately sabotaged local food production. Today, 16.7 million people (29% of the population) face hunger — up from 13.3 million in 2024.
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"Three historical arcs shaped Sudan’s path: colonial extraction, the security-rent state, and the popular revolution." This brilliant account of Sudan's revolution foregrounds three historical dynamics that also drive Myanmar's. abuhureirah.substack.com/p/sudan-at-t...
Sudan at the Crossroads of Empire
Revolution, Counterrevolution, and the UAE’s Subimperial Ambitions
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The Brazilian IR journal World Tensions has just published an open-access thematic double issue on Marxism and International Relations that includes an interview with me in English and Portuguese. 1/4 revistas.uece.br/index.php/te...
Imperialism and Subimperialism in the Great Mekong Subregion | Tensões Mundiais https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/tensoesmundiais/index
Tensões Mundiais dedica-se à livre e gratuita divulgação acadêmica interdisciplinar, publicando trabalhos relativos ao tema “nações e nacionalismos”.
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"Myanmar is undergoing a process of revolutionary state-building that offers a choice: back the population to reimagine the nature of the state & pursue justice, or continue down the current path that enables the junta’s destruction & undermines ASEAN." thediplomat.com/2025/10/supp...
Supporting Myanmar Beyond the ‘ASEAN Way’
Addressing the military’s impunity and supporting the emerging “pluralistic state,” is the only effective way forward for the bloc.
thediplomat.com
Since 2022 Gen Z has organised revolutions & dethroned rulers in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Madagascar, & Peru. Countries w/a combined pop. of 790 million people, making it the largest wave of revolt in human history. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/17/g...
Gen Z Is Taking to the Barricades
Here’s why you should be paying attention.
foreignpolicy.com
1/3. I wrote an article over four years ago arguing that economic corridors were an essentially extractivist paradigm that facilitate the reproduction of imperial-hierarchical relations across the international ... theconversation.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza’s future: what a leaked plan tells us about US regional strategy
A glossy 38-page plan for the redevelopment of Gaza envisages a futuristic mix of smart manufacturing, luxury resorts and the ‘voluntary relocation’ of Palestinians.
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21st century battle of green state capitalism vs brown climate barbarism off to a good start
Jonas Nahm@jonasnahm.com · 11mo ago2/ Chinese firms have committed $227+ billion across 461 green manufacturing projects in 54 countries since 2011 - with 88% of investment occurring just since 2022. This dwarfs the $200 billion Marshall Plan (in today's dollars).
