Asian Socialist Conference

Asian Socialist Conference
Abbreviation	ASC
Formation	1953
Dissolved	1965
Headquarters	4, Wingaba Road, Rangoon, Socialist Burma until 1963; India until 1965
Membership	500,000 (1956)
Chairman	Ba Swe

The Asian Socialist Conference (ASC) was an organisation of socialist political parties in Asia that existed between 1953 and 1965. It was established in an effort to build a Pan-Asian multinational socialist organization, clearly independent from earlier European colonial centres, yet free from the new superpowers of the Cold War.^[1]

In total, four Asian Socialist Conferences convened: Rangoon, 1953 and 1954, and Bombay, 1956 and 1965.^[2]^[3] Until 1963 its headquarters was in Rangoon, Burma; the first chairman and treasurer of the conference were the Burmese socialist leaders Ba Swe and Kyaw Nyein, respectively.^[4]^[5] As of 1956, the member parties of ASC had a combined membership of about 500,000.^[6]

^ Čavoški, Jovan (2019). "Ideološki prijatelj iz daleka: Jugoslavija i Azijska socijalistička konferencija" [Ideological Friend from Afar: Yugoslavia and the Asian Socialist Conference]. Istorija 20. Veka. 37 (1). Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade: 139–160. doi:10.29362/ist20veka.2019.1.cav.139-160.
^ Ministry of Culture, Government of Singapore. Socialist Solution for Asia. Singapore: Government Printing Office, 1965
^ Alijah Gordon. On Becoming Alijah. Part 1: From the American Revolutionary War through Burma, March 1957. Malaysia: Self-publication, 2003
^ Cite error: The named reference fes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Rose, Saul. Socialism in Southern Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. pp. 7,238
^ Docherty, James C. (ed.). Historical Dictionary of Socialism Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Scarecrow Press, 2006.

[Čavoški-1] Čavoški, Jovan (2019). "Ideološki prijatelj iz daleka: Jugoslavija i Azijska socijalistička konferencija" [Ideological Friend from Afar: Yugoslavia and the Asian Socialist Conference]. Istorija 20. Veka. 37 (1). Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade: 139–160. doi:10.29362/ist20veka.2019.1.cav.139-160.

[2] Ministry of Culture, Government of Singapore. Socialist Solution for Asia. Singapore: Government Printing Office, 1965

[3] Alijah Gordon. On Becoming Alijah. Part 1: From the American Revolutionary War through Burma, March 1957. Malaysia: Self-publication, 2003

[fes-4] Cite error: The named reference fes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] Rose, Saul. Socialism in Southern Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. pp. 7,238

[soc-6] Docherty, James C. (ed.). Historical Dictionary of Socialism Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Scarecrow Press, 2006.

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