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Sri Lanka: De-militarise Policing!
By Redley Silva JJB’s Cabinet Spokesperson Minister Vijitha Herath responding to a question raised by a journalist at the media briefing said Prez AKD re-issued the Extraordinary Gazette under the Public Security Ordinance to have legislative power to deal with any unexpected threats to national security during the forthcoming General Election. There was no threat to national security during the Presidential Election. And, the Defence Secretary, Sampath Thuiyakontha, in response to a question raised by a journalist on the same matter, said they have identified sources of potential threats and…
African Global Dialogue: ‘Narrative Conditions Towards Peace in the Middle East’
A liberal zionist conference has been organised in South Africa on 18-20 September 2024, called “African Global Dialogue: Narrative Conditions Towards Peace in the Middle East” where high-profile Zionist academics from around the world have been confirmed as speakers. The only pro-Palestine voices who will be there are piecemeal speakers who espouse such positions as condemning Hamas, lamenting the resistance and jeering at BDS. The framing is designed to manufacture consent, with the tag-line “Narrative Conditions Towards Peace in the Middle East”. Speakers will include historian Benny Morris, lawyer Eli…
Presidential election in Sri Lanka.
I am on very keen observation of the Sri lankan politics and the present Presidential election 2024… I could watch the strong efforts of the **Asia commune* to bring a fare election in the puppy island… Since the country became a freedom nation unlike other neighbouring countries who were freed from the British Sri lanka is still now is not firm and steady in political platform… First to understand the reality of the imbalance political situation in Sri lanka is geographical features… Most of the landa are tea plantations and…
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN SRI LANKA
2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN SRI LANKA After the election on 21st September 2024, two poll results are due. Official Statement Asia Commune ASIACOMMUNE.ORG 21st September 2024 is a crucial day for Sri Lankans. The day will be equally significant for neighboring South Asians. Because the people of Sri Lanka have decided to show their power in this election. The change is going to happen to the extent that Sri Lankan people’s knowledge and understand. The Asia Commune stands in line with the people who are alively fighting to bring that…
The Red Review | Issue #12 (September 2024)
Editor: Flo Schade Managing Editor: Yener Kara Federal Secretary: Barry Weisleder The Political Economy of Housing By Flo Schade – Housing commodification and mortgage debt play a huge role in the current political economy. Particularly true in the Canadian context, financialized speculation of housing plays such an outsized role that it results in the contradiction that housing serves a function very different than providing shelter for people. Let’s start with a broad three-point assessment of bourgeois economics and then specify how that relates to the housing crisis. Economics is a…
Sri Lanka: AKD’s Double Standards?
By Redley Silva In recent election rallies in the South, AKD (Anura Kumara Disanayaka) has taken a commendable stance, repeatedly telling his supporters that those working for his opponents or voting for them should not be harmed, as it’s their democratic right to vote for their political parties. This message of tolerance and respect for political freedom is crucial to a healthy democracy. However, his tone took a stark turn during a rally in Jaffna. Speaking to the largely Tamil audience, Anura implied that not supporting the ‘change’ the people…
Sri Lanka: 2024 Presidential Election and the way forward for the oppressed people!
By Wilfred Silva Today, the question that we have been debated among the people of Sri Lanka, is what steps should be taken in the upcoming presidential Election. We, people of Sri Lanka have been witnessed 75 years of dependant political and socio-economic practice by the capitalists elites (Both Right and Left) in Sri Lanka. Now, we are facing two questions in this conjuncture. Unfortunately, it is completely irrational to think that, there will be such a change from the upcoming presidential election to be held in Sri Lanka on…
It was a pleasure to talk about street vendors & planning in Delhi hosted in Csd India. Appreciate the kind invitation by Nivedita Sharma Singh. I presented my argument on how master plans are the stumbling blocks in the implementation of the SV Act/ street vending in Indian cities. And hinted at ways in which cities must be planned better for vendors.
Those interested in knowing more, please refer to: https://epw.in/journal/2023/8/review-urban-affairs/planning-informal.html Do DM/message me if you need a PDF of the piece. Key arguments: 1. Draft MPD 2041 and its absence of inclusion of provision for vending and SV Act 2014 is an antecedence to the impending challenges of implementing SV Act, and to understand how it will be resisted, diluted and excluded from planning practices. 2. The Street Vendors Act is an outlier & contradicts neo-liberal urban logic and challenges the state that is used to removing informalities to ‘protect’ and…
THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SRI LANKA
Note for the article This article was written by Comrade Upali Cooray in the early period of 1980s in order to promote a discussion on “National Question” among progressives in Sri Lanka. Today, All Sri Lankans are heading for Presidential election on 21st September 2024 and the majority of the people are demanding to establish democracy; but no of any principle candidates are giving priority to National question and self-determination of Tamil-speaking people. It is a major failure of ruling elites of Sri Lanka for last 75 years. Without giving…