“The victim community has no confidence in any local commission or tribunal created by the Sri Lankan Government state. These commissions have in fact revealed the intentions of successive governments to scuttle truth-seeking and the victims’ quest for accountability. Leading functionaries and politicians have time and again declared publicly that the government will not betray the war heroes and patriotic forces.”
June 5, 2023 The transformations of the imperialist system since the collapse of the USSR and the emergence of China, the wars in the Balkans, then in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, the civil wars and sometimes genocidal wars as in Rwanda, the major world economic crises which occur almost every ten years, then the pandemic and its consequences, all reveal a profound reorganization of the economic structures of capitalism as well as a reconfiguration of social classes and inter-imperialist relations of power on an international scale. The reactions, uprisings, and…
07.03.2023 Kateryna Turenko In the middle of February, a draft law was uploaded on the Parliament website, calling to cancel the celebrations of March 8, introducing instead the Day of a Ukrainian woman. Referencing economic losses from March 8 being a national holiday and the need “to part with Soviet legacy”, politicians gracefully ignore the political significance of the day that brings attention to the fight for women’s rights. For many years Ukrainian feminists have fought for the political, economic, and personal rights and opportunities of women. They have turned…
Oksana Briukhovetska MY HEART IS bleeding for my country Ukraine, and searching for mourning, for the possibility to bring flowers of my grief to infinite graves that emerge every day on Ukrainian soil. The question “Why war?” was discussed by intellectuals a century ago in between the two World Wars, and was not resolved neither then nor now. Destroyed buildings in Ukraine today remind us of Ukraine in flames during the Second World War. New wounds hurt on top of old ones. My grandmother Halia survived an artificially inflicted famine…
200 delegates from 40 organizations are gathering in South Africa for the “Dilemmas of Humanity: Pan African Dialogues to Build Socialism” conference. For the next four days, progressive movements and organizations will discuss the challenges posed by capitalism, and articulate the socialist way forward. “මනුෂ්‍යත්වයේ උභතෝකෝටිකය: සමාජවාදය ගොඩනැගීම සඳහා පෑන් අප්‍රිකානු සංවාද” සමුළුව සඳහා සංවිධාන 40 ක නියෝජිතයින් 200 ක් දකුණු අප්‍රිකාවේ රැස්ව සිටිති. ඉදිරි දින හතර තුළ ප්‍රගතිශීලී ව්‍යාපාර සහ සංවිධාන ධනවාදය විසින් එල්ල කරන අභියෝග පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කර සමාජවාදී ඉදිරි මාවත ප්‍රකාශ කරනු ඇත. 40 அமைப்புகளைச் சேர்ந்த 200…
*මන්නාරමේ සිට මාතලේ දක්වා පාගමන ගැන මාධ්‍ය වෙත දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා පැවැත්වෙන මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවට අපි ඔබට ආරාධනා කරමු. මාධ්‍ය හමුව ජුලි 19, පෙරවරු 10 ට, 368 බෞද්ධාලෝක මාවතේ, කොළඹ-07 හි පිහිටි කොළඹ රදගුරු පදවියේ සභා ගර්භයේදී පැවැත්වේ.* *மன்னாரிலிருந்து மாத்தளை வரையிலான நடைபயணம் குறித்த ஊடகவியலாளர் சந்திப்புக்கு உங்களை அழைக்கின்றோம்.* *செய்தியாளர் சந்திப்பு 368 பௌத்தலோக மாவத்தை, கொழும்பு-07* *இலுள்ள மறைமாவட்டத்தின் சேம்பர்ஸில் ஜூலை* *We invite you to a briefing to the press about the walk from Mannar to Matale. The press meet will be held on July 19th, at 10am at the Chambers, Diocese of Colombo, 368…
An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The caste-based culture is still the key obstacle for development in Sri Lanka By Basil Fernando Over a long period, many erudite scholars and critics have engaged with the issue of the extent to which caste remained a relevant factor in understanding social development in Sri Lanka. One could sum up broadly the overwhelming view among such writers as being that while caste influences still remain in some way or the other, the predominant factor relating to changes in Sri Lanka…
By La Marx International In the last 7 months the “summits” between the United States and China have multiplied. After years without official meetings between the two governments, suddenly in recent months the meetings have become recurring, and frantic. Visits by high-ranking officials of the United States government to China are permanent, or meetings between the governments of China and the US, whether bilateral, as well as at the G20 or Davos world summits. From 7 months ago there was a long Summit of the governments of Joe Biden, and…
Venezuelan communes—where productive activities are controlled by a range of community assemblies—are fascinating examples of socialist forces experimenting with the creation of new social forms. Venezuela’s communes are an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of cooperatives and state-owned socialist factories by addressing not just economic production but other social relationships like parenting and gender relations at the grassroots level. Chris Gilbert, author of the forthcoming book Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project and co-author (with Cira Pascual Marquina) of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle,…
06/25/2023 Revolution’s Newsstand First published in Pravda on July 10, 1923. ‘Not By Politics Alone’ by Leon Trotsky from Problems of Life. George H. Doran Publishers, New York. 1924. This simple thought should be thoroughly grasped and borne in mind by all who speak or write for propaganda purposes. Changed times bring changed tunes. The pre-revolutionary history of our party was a history of revolutionary politics. Party literature, party organizations—everything was ruled by politics in the direct and narrow sense of that word. The revolutionary crisis has intensified to a…