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Film – “LET’S RENT A TRAIN!” 

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Life in the Toronto Branch of the  League for Socialist Action, 1961-1977  Click on picture below to see the Film  “LET’S RENT A TRAIN!” is an unprecedented, 93-minute historical film documenting  the rise and fall of a revolutionary political group whose youthful members waged  campaigns that profoundly altered Canada’s political landscape.   During the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, as members of the League for  Socialist Action (LSA), several hundred highly disciplined activists led Canada’s  antiwar movement against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam, and exposed Ottawa’s financial  and diplomatic complicity…

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You are not alone – the quest for solidarity

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By ROAPE – July 25, 2023 ROAPE contributor, Yusuf Serunkuma, reviews a new book on the loneliness of the left. Left Alone is a highly original collection of urgent stories, reflections and short essays from around the world on the lived experiences of left loneliness from a variety of genres and left political currents. Serunkuma praises a volume that capture struggles in the trenches of authoritarianism, and on the streets of the capitalist world. By Yusuf Serunkuma In all struggles—before mass consciousness and awakening—strugglers, fighters, resistors or peasant/organic intellectuals have…

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Sri Lanka – Muslim MPs betray MMDA Reforms

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The recommendations submitted by the MPs take astoundingly regressive positions on reforms to the MMDA. Some of the most egregious recommendations include:1. The bride’s signature on the marriage register to have no value without a male guardian signing, denying women their autonomy.2. Muslim women continue to be excluded from holding public office under the MMDA, which will have only male registrars. Inclusion of women Quazis (judges) has not been specified.3. Maintain the Quazi system without any changes, including criteria and process for appointing Quazis.4. Exceptions to minimum age of marriage…

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Sri Lanka – Statement by Civil Society on Proposed Truth-Telling Mechanism!

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“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.” 

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Shocks within the Imperialist System and the Tasks of Revolutionary Communists

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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…

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March 8 in the second year of war: experiences and visions of Ukrainian feminists

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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…

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Songs and Flowers for Ukraine

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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…

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Africa’s path to socialism – සමාජවාදය සඳහා අප්‍රිකාවේ මාවත- சோசலிசத்திற்கான ஆப்பிரிக்காவின் பாதை

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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…

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මන්නාරමේ සිට මාතලේ දක්වා පාගමන…மன்னாரிலிருந்து மாத்தளை வரையிலான நடைபயணம் குறித்த ஊடகவியலாளர் சந்திப்புக்கு உங்களை அழைக்கின்றோம்.

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*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…

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