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India Will Pay 70% of Cost but Micron Will Own 100% of the Plant—ACurious Business Model

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By Prabir Purkayastha The deal with Micron during PM Modi’s visit to the United States has madeheadlines as a major technological breakthrough and a new dawn for India’selectronics chip-making industry. Implicit in this hurrah for the Micron deal is thatIndia has completely missed the bus on the key technologies involved in electronicchip making. And for those who know technology would realize that the Micron dealis only for packaging of the chips, their assembly and testing, a relatively low end ofthe electronics industry. It does not touch the core technologies of…

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The Theory of the Permanent Revolution

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In April 1917, Lenin returned to Russia and politically re-armed the Bolshevik Party with the slogan “all power to the soviets”. In doing so, Lenin was affirming Leon Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution: the analysis that the capitalist class in the colonial countries, arriving late onto the scene of history in an epoch of imperialism, had long ceased to play any progressive role and could not carry out the tasks of the bourgeois democratic revolution and national liberation. The conclusion: that socialists and revolutionaries in Russia could not give…

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විදුලි කාර් නිශ්පාදනයේ අඳුරු පැත්ත…

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කොබෝල්ට් තදබදයෙන් විපතට පත් වූවන් පිළිබදව FRANCE 24 හි විමර්ශනය කරයි. අද සමස්ත ලෝකයම මුහුණ දී ඇති දේශගුණික අර්බුදය මධ්‍යයේ විදුලි මෝටර් රථ පිරිසිදු බලශක්ති ප්‍රභවයක් වශයෙන් හුවා දැක්වීමට මෝටර් රථ නිශ්පාදනයේ යෙදී සිටින බලවත් රටවල් හා සමාගම් උත්සාහ කරමින් සිටිති. පුද්ගලික භාවිතයට යොදා ගන්නා මෝටර් රථ නිපදවීම වෙනුවට පොදු ප්‍රවාහන සේවය දියුණු කිරීම හා ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීම බැහැර කර ඇති බලවත් ජාතීන් හා සමාගම් විදුලි මෝටර් රථය විසදුමක් ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. මෙහි අරමුණ වනුයේ ධනපති සමාගම්වල ලාභ අනුපාතය උපරිම කර ගැනීම මිස දේශගුණික අර්බුදයට විසදුමක් ගෙන ඒ්ම නොවේ.  මෙම…

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(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”

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Frederick Douglass, ca. 1852 Daguerreotype photo by Samuel J. Miller Posted on January 24, 2007 _ Contributed by: BlackPast On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but to remind all of its continuing enslavement of millions of people. Douglass’s speech appears below. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could…

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Sri Lanka: Civil society statement condemning the abuse of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act to violate the freedom of expression

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22nd June, 2023 Sri Lanka: Civil society statement condemning the abuse of the International Covenant onCivil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act to violate the freedom of expression We the undersigned individuals and organisations are deeply concerned by the continuing abuseof law including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act, No. 56 of2007 and its selective application to violate the freedom of expression in Sri Lanka. The state hassystematically used the ICCPR law, which was meant to promote and protect human rights, tosilence and punish human rights defenders,…

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SOCIALISM 2023: The “Show” of the reformist and bourgeois left

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La Marx International 1/7/23 A series of organizations, groups, and NGO’s that support the imperialist government of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party of the United States convene a conference called “SOCIALISM 2023” in Chicago, USA. The Conference is convened by Haymarket publishing house with the political and economic support from organizations such as the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), or Jacobin Magazine, an entire event that presents a panel of speakers made up massively of intellectuals, university professors, professors, opinion experts, civil servants, and members of NGOs linked to…

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Withdraw the court case against 22 plantation workers in Sri Lanka!

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වතු කම්කරුවන් 22කට එරෙහිව වතු හාම්පුතුන් විසින් ගොතා ඇති නඩුව ඉවත් කරගන්නා ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් වතුකම්කරු ක්‍රියාකාරී කමිටු විසින් දියත් කර ඇති ‌පෙත්සමට  සහාය පලකරන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් අද දින (ජූනි 23) සමානතා පක්ෂය සහ සමාජ සමානතාව සඳහා ජාත්‍යන්තර තරුනයෝ සහ ශිෂ්‍යයෝ ව්‍යාපාරයේ සාමාජිකයන්  යාපනය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය ඉදිරිපිටදී පැවැත්වූ උද්ඝෝෂන ව්‍යාපාරය. විශ්වවිද්‍යාල සිසුන්, සෞඛ්‍ය සේවකයින් ඇතුලු ගනනාවක්ම  උද්‍යෝගිමත්ව මෙම උද්ඝෝෂනයට සහය පලකලහ. இன்று (ஜூன் 23) தோட்டத் தொழிலாளர்களுக்கு எதிரான வழக்கை வாபஸ் பெறக் கோரி, இலங்கை சோசலிச சமத்துவக் கட்சி மற்றும் சமூக சமத்துவத்திற்கான அனைத்துலக இளைஞர் மற்றும் மாணவர் (IYSSE) அமைப்பின் உறுப்பினர்கள் யாழ்.பல்கலைக்கழகத்திற்கு முன்பாக பிரச்சாரம் செய்தனர். சோ.ச.க./ஐ.வை.எஸ்.எஸ்.இ. பிரச்சாரம், மாணவர்கள்…

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Nepal – Left parties preparing to announce Samajwadi Morcha today

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Khabarhub June 19, 2023 KATHMANDU: If everything goes according to the plan, Chairman of Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” and other leaders are expected to announce the formation of Samajwadi Morcha (Socialist Front), a loose forum of Left parties, on Monday. Sources claimed that since the process of establishing the Socialist Front among various left-wing political parties has “almost been finalized”, it is likely that Dahal, who is also the Prime Minister, will announce its formation. The initiative to unite left-wing parties excluding the CPN-UML, which began approximately a…

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”Democratic movement not possible without vibrant labour movement”

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Report by Nawaz Arain Karachi Pakistan, .. for Asia Commune…                  _Karachi, 25 June 2023_. At its national conference on the right to dignity of labour and decent work for all, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has observed that the backbone of any true democratic movement is a strong labour movement that advocates for social protection, fair wages without discrimination, the right to collective bargaining and humane working conditions. A panel of academics and researchers—including Umair Rasheed, Dr Fahd Ali, Taha…

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