Thailand: preparing for a long struggle
In the four weeks since the coup, the military have repressed, but not eliminated, dissent. The wave of protests immediately after the coup was a big step and a break from the past. Showing enormous courage, Thai working people demonstrated in their hundreds and thousands. At first the military seemed nonplussed, then they started their crackdown. Even after rounds of arrests, people continued to protest in large numbers, finding inventive ways to organise such as changing the sites to places where they were not expected. Arrests of activists have become widespread, mostly followed by release...