Spectre journal, spoke to
Geoffrey Aung, a postgraduate student at Columbia University, researching the politics of infrastructure in and around Myanmar’s economic zones and trade corridors. Chuang the week of the coup, Aung reflects upon likely implications of the coup, the class composition of the resistance, and how we should understand these developments in relation to the longer trajectory of capitalist transition in Myanmar.
Where are we now? What’s happened since the coup on February 1?
The new military government is now confronting mass resistance. From Myanmar’s major cities to towns across the country, we’re seeing large-scale work stoppages, street demonstrations, urban blockades and general unrest.
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