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Pakistan Fisherfolk forum and APMDD Organized a Protest Rally to ahead of the 2023 summit of leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies in Delhi.

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Report by Nawaz Arain, for www. asiacommune.org @ Press Club   Karachi,. Rallies held Governor House Choak to end Karachi Press Club Speaking to Protester Saeed Baloch General Secretary Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum said “We demand that the G20 governments commit to bolder measures to address the multiple crises, including mobilizing much-needed resources through inclusive debt cancellation, adoption of wealth taxes for spending on urgent economic and climate action, and the rechanneling of public funds away from fossil fuel subsidies towards renewable energy systems,” G20 countries together contribute to 75% of global…

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Pakistan: workers’ rally organised in Karachi by RWF to demand higher wages

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RWF Karachi – 30 August 2023 A huge workers’ rally marched from Hospital Chowrangi to Dawood Chowrangi in Landhi, an industrial area of Karachi, under the banner of Red Workers’ Front, to demand higher wages in the face of grinding poverty and sky-high inflation. Wages are miserably low in Pakistan. Despite historic inflation of more than 50 percent and currency depreciation of around 100 percent in two years, the official minimum wage is stagnant, at around Rs. 25,000 ($78) per month. This is insufficient to support even one person, although…

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The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece

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Sean Ledwith 27 August 2023 Red Traces The inspired insights of the first materialists in antiquity laid the foundations of modern science, as Sean Ledwith describes Marx and Engels both had a lifelong interest in the ideas, events and personalities of ancient Greece. Conventional historians often like to talk about the so-called ‘Greek Miracle’ lasting from about 700-300 BCE in which many of the foundational concepts of the Western world first emerged. Pioneering developments in disciplines as diverse as architecture, drama, philosophy, poetry, political science, and sculpture were made by…

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UFL press release on the Inland Revenue Amendment Bill

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The President of the United Federation of Labour, Swasthika Arulingam, has filed a Special Determination Action on behalf of her Union challenging the constitutionality of the Inland Revenue Amendment Bill which was placed in the order paper of Parliament on the 8th August, 2023. The Petitioner has stated nearly half the account holders of the EPF funds do not even pay taxation while they are earning as some of their salaries are as low as Rs. 21,000. Hence the Parliament has no mandate to pass a legislation which would impose…

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‘The Surrender of the Second International in the Emancipation of Women’ by Clara Zetkin from Communist International. Vol. 6 Nos. 9-10. April, 1929.

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Zetkin with Volga German workers at “Sarpintrest” in Krasnoarmeysk. 1925. A substantial essay by Clara Zetkin tracing the historic successes and failures of the Socialist International in support of women’s emancipation in an effort contextualize the then differences that existed between the Communist International and the Second in the post-war period. From one who was there. ‘The Surrender of the Second International in the Emancipation of Women’ by Clara Zetkin from Communist International. Vol. 6 Nos. 9-10. April, 1929. THE inaugural congress of the Communist International in March, 1919, in…

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‘Karl Liebknecht Day in China’ from International Press Correspondence.

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Picture: Workers in Shanghai during the 1922 seamen’s strike. ‘Karl Liebknecht Day in China’ from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 2 No. 38. May 19, 1922. At the beginning. Formed in July, 1921 this article claims that the Karl Liebknecht Day commemorations held in Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai on January 15, 1922 it reports on were the first public manifestations of the Chinese Communist Party. Participants included some of the 500,000 maritime workers then on strike. ‘Karl Liebknecht Day in China’ from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 2 No. 38. May 19,…

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Come you masters of war….all the money you made, will never buy back your soul

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“Come you masters of war. You that build all the guns. You that build the death planes. You that build all the big bombs. You that hide behind walls. You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know I can see through your masks. Let me ask you one question, Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness, do you think that it could? I think you will find, when your death takes its toll, all the money you made, will never buy back your soul”…

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Sri Lanka – චැනල් 4 වාර්තාව ගැන කාදිනල්තුමාගේ විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය හමුව ENGLISH\ SINHALA

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බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ බීබීසී 4 නාලිකාව විසින් ඊයේ රාත්‍රියේ විකාශනය කරන ලද වීඩියෝවක් මගින් හෙළිදරව් කර ඇත්තේ රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවේ නිලධාරීන් 2019 පාස්කු ඉරුදින ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ සිදු කරන ලද බෝම්බ ප්‍ර‍හාර වලට කෙළින්ම සම්බන්ධව සිටි බවයි. දේවස්ථාන 3 ක සහ සංචාරක හෝටල් 3 ක එකවර කරන ලද මෙම ප්‍රහාරය හේතුකොට ගෙන ජීවිත 269 ක් අහිමිවූ අතර තවත් 500 කට වැඩි පිරිසකට බරපතල තුවාල සිදුවිය. මෙම හෙළිදරව් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගරු මැල්කම් රංජිත් කාදිනල් හිමිපාණන් විසින් සිංහලෙන් හා ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් කරන ලද විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය හමුව පහත වීඩියෝවෙන් දැක්වේ: A video broadcast by Britain’s BBC 4…

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