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THAILAND'S royalists rallied against pro-democracy protesters in the capital Bangkok today, despite the student-led movement demonstrating against the government, not the monarchy.
A small number of hardcore supporters of the king gathered by Bangkok’s Democracy Monument where anti-government protesters have held large demonstrations in recent weeks.
Around 75 protesters from the group Vocational School Students Protecting the Nation chanted: “Long live the king” and sang songs associated with the country’s past nationalist movements.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
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Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA