[LINK] Tonga on the brink
Aug. 28th, 2005 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldJonathan Edelstein's post describing the incipient revolutionary situation in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga is a good introduction to the challenges facing this island country now. Faced with glaring inequities in wealth, general strikes, and newly politicized and monetarized population, the Tongan monarchy is caught in a difficult position. Will it reform or will it die?
