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Online Safety Bill and Anti-Terror Bill – Law making to End Democracy and Fundamental Rights of Sri Lankan Citizens!

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Online Safety Bill and Anti-Terror Bill –  Law making to End Democracy and Fundamental Rights of Sri Lankan Citizens The Government has included two Bills titled ‘The Online Safety Act’ (OSA) and the ‘Anti-Terror Act’ (ATA) in the Parliamentary Order Paper dated 3rd October 2023. Both Bills have sweeping provisions. curtail and even violate the freedoms of expression, free speech, right to information, assembly and association. Both present fatal threats to democracy and fundamental rights in this country. The OSA proposes to create an ‘Online Safety Commission’ appointed by the…

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South African BDS Coalition Press Alert

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*South African BDS Coalition Press Alert 20 October 2023 The SA BDS Coalition is outraged and disgusted at the continuation of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s attacks on the West Bank. The SA BDS Coalition is also concerned that these war crimes are being detracted from in the media by talk of “moving” Gazan Palestinians into Egypt. Forcing an entire people to move to another country at gunpoint where they will live in tents in a desert amounts to ethnic cleansing under international law and…

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France: Against the Repression of the Palestine Solidarity Movement!

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Revolution—IMT in France October 20, 2023 In France, as elsewhere, the extremely brutal response of the Israeli government to the Hamas attack on October 7 has aroused the indignation of millions of young people and workers. But in the name of “Israel’s right to defend itself” and “the fight against terrorism and antisemitism,” the Macron government decreed that this indignation was unacceptable and must be silenced, at all costs. Originally published in French at marxiste.org Demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza—and the Palestinian people in general—were banned by…

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Tens of Thousands of Pakistanis Hold Solidarity Protests for Palestine

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By Global News ServiceCredit Line: from the Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service Tens of thousands mobilized in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistan, on October 15 in solidarity with Palestine. While denouncing the Israeli bombardment on Gaza that has killed close to 3,000 people including 1,030 children, the protesters carried the banners of “Free Palestine” and expressed their unwavering solidarity. Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist political party, organized the march but the solidarity march subsequently gained widespread support across civil society and from trade unions. The demonstration was supported by…

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The British Roots of the Conflict in Palestine

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By Saurav Sarkar Israeli flags are flying over all government buildings in the United Kingdom currently, but this isn’t the first time the former imperial hegemon has put its weight behind Zionism. In 1917, the British government issued the infamous Balfour Declaration. This brief document—67 words—was a turning point in modern Palestinian history. It committed Great Britain to establishing a “national home” for Jewish people in Palestine. (The initial language promised a “Jewish state,” but was changed later.) The Balfour Declaration contained language that was meant to safeguard Palestinians, but…

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Open letter by the North African De-colonial Network

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Open letter 20 October 2023 Israel-Palestine war: No peace without de-colonisation We, members and friends of the North African Decolonial Network, give the Palestinian people our full support in their liberation struggle and denounce the ongoing massacre. “Colonial forces always want history to begin with the moment their allies are attacked, thus erasing the accumulated effects of oppression, humiliation, and perpetual aggression produced by apartheid policies. We would like to stress that the history of this murderous madness did not begin on 7 October 2023. Just as it did not…

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SRI LANKA: IMF observations on an Independent Prosecution office for Sri Lanka

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A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  SRI LANKA: IMF observations on an Independent Prosecution office for Sri Lanka IMF in its recent report issued in September titled Sri Lanka; Technical Assistance Report-Governance Diagnostic Assessment, has directed its attention to the problems relating to the independence in conduct of prosecutions into crimes in Sri Lanka. It points to the absence of independent prosecutor in Sri Lanka and also notes that this given rise to real or perceived impression about the weaknesses of the existing system.  Asian Human Rights Commission has for many years…

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You must speak. It’s our only hope!

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First Russian and Ukraine War! Now Israel and Hamas war! The great comedy actor Charlie Chaplin’s words are very significant at this point of time. You must speak. I can’t. You must. It’s our only hope. Hope? I’m sorry. I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business.I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I would like to help everyone. If possible Jew, Gentile, black man, white etc. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other…

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The Women’s Revolution of the 21st Century

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From Women of La Marx we prepared this document, illustrating the struggle that women have led in a permanent revolution, over the course of centuries. Throughout history, we have obtained conquests and demands, with mobilizations that gradually stopped being a vanguard to become a mass process, with the objective of destroying patriarchy and oppression, in a progressive awareness, in order to abolish the capitalist system, through the revolution of the most oppressed people and sectors, to open the way to the global socialist system. Today we raise our fists together…

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