Singapore: ‘Industrial peace’ is what governments use to justify higher investments in police to break strikes, to bust unions. It’s very nice sounding, but it has very violent connotations.

Editor's Note: Behind the image of Singapore as a wealthy city-state with an affluent population is the reality of a labor movement dominated by the state-controlled National Trades Union Congress and a tripartite system that disadvantages workers. In recent years, a new radical collective, Workers ...