October 2023 - Page 7 of 7

Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy

October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 wisidagamage

By Prabir Purkayastha (Posted Sep 16, 2023) Originally published: NewsClick.in on September 9, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in) The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell—had ended with the nineteenth century.1 The twentieth century was more about industry-based R&D laboratories, where corporations gathered together leading scientists and technologists to create the technologies of the future. In this phase, capital was still expanding production. Even…

Nagorno-Karabakh ගැටුම ගැන ඔබ දැනගත යුතු දේ!

October 3, 2023October 3, 2023 wisidagamage

අසර්බයිජානයෙන් වට වූ වාර්ගික ආමේනියානුවන්ගේ වාසස්ථානයක් වන නාගෝර්නෝ-කරබාක්හි වර්ධනය වන අර්බුදය ගැන පසුගිය දින කිහිපය තුළ අපට අසන්නට ලැබුණි. මේ වන විට දස දහස් සංඛ්‍යාත ජනතාවක් තම ජීවිතය සහ තම මව්බිමේ අනාගතය ගැන බියෙන් කලාපයෙන් පලා යති. ප්‍රවීණයන් අපේක්ෂා කරන්නේ ඉදිරි සති කිහිපය තුළ Nagorno-Karabakh හි ජීවත් වන ඇස්තමේන්තුගත පුද්ගලයන් 120,000 දෙනාම පාහේ ආර්මේනියාවට පිටව යා හැකි බවත්, යුරෝපයේ දොරකඩ තවත් සරණාගත අර්බුදයක් නිර්මාණය කළ හැකි බවත්ය. මේ වන විට ලෝකයේ බොහෝ දේ සිදුවෙමින් පවතින අතර, සෑම දෙයක්ම, විශේෂයෙන් සංකීර්ණ ලෙස පෙනෙන දේවල් වේගවත්ලෙස අර්බුදයකට ගමන් කරමින් තිබෙන බව පෙනේ.…

Art from The New Masses.

October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 wisidagamage

Art from The New Masses. Vol. 4 No. 8. January, 1929. Art by Diego Rivera, William Seigel, Art Young, William Gropper, Gan Kolski,, Stuart Davis, Hugo Gellert, Xavier Guerrero, and Louis Lozowick. Art from The New Masses. Vol. 4 No. 8. January, 1929. The New Masses was the continuation of Workers Monthly which began publishing in 1924 as a merger of the ‘Liberator’, the Trade Union Educational League magazine ‘Labor Herald’, and Friends of Soviet Russia’s monthly ‘Soviet Russia Pictorial’ as an explicitly Communist Party publication, but drawing in a…

India-CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY…

October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 wisidagamage

One Sanghi fraud of great India. …. Who dared to defeat 140 crores of Indian people… and finally defeated the Propaganda Political personal advisor G..O..E..B..E..L..L…of Nazi Hitler.. by manufacturing of Lies. trained from his Rss SANATANA HINDUTHVA STOCKS… Uttered in all his well calculated false election .campaigns and his functiins as in PM POWER since from 2014-2024..! NO…. CONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY… with SANGHI RSS PM …! Shameless … Hindu and Hinduthva.. in INDIA..! R.Sevvilam Parithi Erode.

এপার ওপার মাঝখানে নদী

October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 wisidagamage

এপার ওপার মাঝখানে নদী সারাদিন দেয়া নেয়া নৌকো বেয়ে উদাস মাঝি বারবার দেয় খেয়া। দাঁড়াতেই হবে খেয়া ঘাটে এসে যত থাক তাড়াতাড়ি নৌকা না এলে কিছুই হবে না ফেরা যাবে না তো বাড়ি। ওপার থেকে নৌকা ছাড়ে এপারে আসে বেয়ে দুপারেই মানুষ অপেক্ষা করে বসে আছে পথ চেয়ে। কতো হৈ চৈ কতো ছোটাছুটি চিৎকার চেঁচামেচি সব থেমে যায় যখন দেখে এই তো পৌঁছে গেছি। দোকান বাজার বন্ধ হয় শেষ হয়ে যায় হাট পাড়ের কড়ি গুনে বুঝে নিতে বসে থাকে খেয়াঘাট। মাথার ছাতা হিসেবের খাতা সংসারে প্রিয়জন, ঘর বাড়ি জমিদারি কতো…

Principles of the Commune and Socialist Organisation

October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 wisidagamage

A discussion about Common or Communal land, The Paris Commune, and the Marxist Dictatorahip of the Proletariat. “The principles of the Commune are eternal and indestructible; they will present themselves again and again until the working class is liberated.” -Karl Marx

Congratulations to the Newly Elected All India Student Federation!

October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 wisidagamage

By Jayantha Das Warm Congratulations to the Newly Elected AISF President Comrade Vicky Mahesari, General Secretary Comrade Dinesh, Vice President Comrade Sanghamitra Jena & other Central office bearers by 30th National Conference of AISF at Begusarai Bihar on 28th,29th,30th September & 1st October 2023.

‘Political Education in Soviet Russia’ by Nikolai Lenin from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 4 No. 18. April 30, 1921.

October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 wisidagamage

The speech by Lenin at the All-Russian Conference for Organizations for Political Education delivered on November 5, 1920. ‘Political Education in Soviet Russia’ by Nikolai Lenin from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 4 No. 18. April 30, 1921. Comrades! Permit me to impart a few thoughts to you that occurred to me in the Central Committee and in the Council of People’s Commissars in our discussion of the question of an organization of a central body for political education. Personally I take the liberty to remark that I have been…

Sri Lanka – YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION DEMAND AN IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE RESIGNATION OF THE MAGISTRATE OF MULLAITEEVU !

October 1, 2023October 2, 2023 wisidagamage

The jurisdiction of the Mullaiteevu Magistrate has become a place of contentious judicial, legal and political battle ground due to the Kurunthur Malai incident and the excavation of a mass grave consisting of what appears to be the remains of LTTE carders. The Mullaiteevu Magistrate’s Office has come under direct threat from Member of Parliament Sarath Weerasekara who identified the Magistrate as a ‘Tamil’ Judge who is making orders inside a ‘Sinhala Buddhist’ State. Despite condemning statements by the BASL and Lawyers’ Collective and protests by Bars across the North…