A key protest group last night announced a new campaign focused on a single demand that will have “no leaders, rallies, or compromises.”
Free People, which has called most of the recent mass rallies, announced Restart Thailand on Monday night with the trappings of a reborn republican movement – complete with socialist overtones – declaring it a place for all people as “oppressed workers” to work to create an “equal country.”
“This is a new movement where nothing will be the same. [We’ll] raise awareness of the oppressed working class, no matter if you are students, office workers, non-uniformed staff, farmers or civil servants. We are all oppressed workers,” Free People announced.
It even has a striking new logo with its initials spelled out by a hammer and sickle, which got a mixed reaction for invoking Communism.
Free People did not spell…
