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SPP Statement, 28 November 2012 The recent SMRT bus drivers’ strike was one of the few occasions in Singapore that showed the unhappiness of workers in a very stark way. Our authorities need to seriously consider the possibility of another strike encouraged by this precedent, and how Singapore must reduce our over-dependence... 

Project Syndicate- Nov. 19, 2012 NEW YORK – China is at a crucial point today, as it was in 1978, when the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping opened its economy to the world – and as it was again in the early 1990’s, when Deng’s famous “southern tour” reaffirmed the country’s development path. Throughout... 

Singapore's workers have been exploited for far too long. Since the detention of opposition and trade union leaders like Lim Chin Siong and the eradication of free trade unions together with the restructuring of the employment laws in the 1960s, the PAP has, together with Western neoliberals, systematically dismantled the legitimate...