Who are Thaksin Shinawatra and his UDD? Who are the current members of the government, Abhisit and the king?

Thai bourgeoisie is linked to the imperialist investments in the region. Abhisit, the army’s officer caste and Thai elite are the ones who control this and had removed the nationalist bourgeoisie variant of Thaksin from that.
Thailand is ruled by King Bhumipol Adulyadej, who is very old (82) and sick. But just like in Spain there are elections for a fake parliament and for a Prime Minister, who plays the role of the head of state. The King –who belongs to a dynasty that have been in the throne for hundreds of years- until recently kept an aura of «divinity» and was somehow set aside of all the political issues; this allowed him to play the role of arbitrator among bourgeois sectors and their followers. But this is all gone, since he is openly supporting the repressions of Abhisit. The nobles of the court and the so called «yellow shirts» (youth from the nobility and Bangkok’s petty bourgeoisie enriched for tourism and financial business of Thai stock exchange), surrounding the king and allied to the most concentrated and traditional sector of the Thai bourgeoisie, backed by the army, made a putsch last year occupying Bangkok international airport to prevent that Thaksin (who is in exile) return to the country and that their supporters force to call for elections (that everyone knows that Thaksin would have easily won at that time).
Thaksin was elected Prime Minister in 2001 and then again in 2005, i.e. the chief of the board that administrates the business of the whole bourgeoisie. In this case he was the chief of the Thai bourgeoisie, junior partner and local manager of direct imperialist investments in that country. So Thaksin and his clique (who then created UDD, dragging behind them big sectors of the masses, the already mentioned «red shirts») were part of the elite board (Thai bourgeoisie), since he is a rich businessmen himself owning telecommunications and TV stations as well as satellite telephony, with investments all over the region.
Thaksin, as a politician and with a demagogic populist speech, promised to the Thai masses to redistribute the national income, social services and public health for all, small loans for families and small companies. Under his government, some of these measures were implemented; peasants had electricity, cell phones and air conditioned, but have nothing to eat and are extremely poor.
This Thai millionaire bourgeois was overthrown by a coup in 2006. The elections called by the Military Board that made the coup were won by a coalition of his party with other minor opponents. They were evicted from power (without elections, only for a King’s and elite’s decision, supported by the majority of the army) in order to let the current Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajuva to assume. He prosecuted Thaksin and froze his bank accounts in one billion pounds.
Thaksin has become in some kind of «idol», whether by the small concessions or by the prosecution of Abhisit’s wing. He has dragged behind him a big amount of poor peasants, brutally repressed by Abhisit and the assassin Thai army.
Thus the national bourgeois fraction of Thaksin was backed on the poor peasants to bargain its slice of the national income of the overexploitation of the workers movement. As today he is out of any business, in order to recover it, he calls the masses to mobilize against Abhisit, opening gaps on the tops. That is why he uses formal democratic slogans of «new elections», but demagogic, since he doesn’t call at all to the revolutionary overthrowing of the super-reactionary monarchy which is the key institution which imperialism uses to control the state and the regime of Thailand and gets the super-profits of the plunder of the nation. This monarchy normally acts as an arbiter between both bourgeois factions and concentrate in its power the bands of armed men at the service of imperialism and of all the owner classes of the nation.
Thaksin and his «opposition» bourgeois faction will never think to take up to the end the structural democratic demands as the expulsion of imperialism out of the nation and the fight to get land and for the land reform. They are more afraid of the mobilized and armed masses than of their bourgeois and imperialist partners with which they are circumstantially faced but have thousands of joint business.
For that reason, the masses have realized that their needs of having bread, jobs and land will only come by overthrowing the government and the reactionary monarchy regime that starve them.
That is why the officers of Thaksin and the bourgeoisie’s army that controlled the masses in struggle have surrendered just when the workers and peasants struggle was starting to become a successful insurrection of the exploited masses that would have left the monarchy regime and the bourgeois state dismantled as well as all its institutions.
Ultimately, they gave up in order to make easier the bloody repression against the masses, since they couldn’t control nor manipulate them any more.
Undoubtedly, Thailand puts on the table of the international working class once again that the working class, leading the poor peasants behind it, is the only class that can take up to the end the fight for the revolutionary democratic demands of the masses and the oppressed nation, by seizing power, expropriating the expropriators and demolishing the existing state machinery that works because of them