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Bangladesh: Brahmanbaria Patrika journalist hacked to death

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Originally From: https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/bangladesh-brahmanbaria-patrika-journalist-hacked-to-death.html Ashiqul Islam, district correspondent of the Daily Monitor and a reporter for local daily Brahmanbaria Patrika was hacked to death in a knife- attack on the evening of January 9 while he was returning home. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses condolence to Islam’s family and demands that the Bangladesh government investigate the case swiftly and bring the perpetrators to justice. According to a media- report, a group of assailants, attacked 27-year-old Islam with a knife near Faruki Park in Brahmanbaria,Chattogram, at around 7 pm while…

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විප්ලවයක් සිදු නොවූයේ ඇයි?

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රාජු ප්‍ර‍භාත් ලංකාලෝක විසිනි ඊනියා වාමාංශික ක්‍රියාකාරීන් හා මාක්ස්වාදීන් ලෙසින් තමන්ව හඳුන්වා ගන්නා අය පවා බොහෝ විට බලාපොරොත්තු සුන්වීම හා කලකිරීම මුසුව ප්‍රකාශ කරන්නේ: “බලන්න, සිදුවන්නේ මොන තරම් නරුම  දේවල්ද? ඒත් තවමත් විප්ලවයක් සිදු නොවන්නේ ඇයි?” යනුවෙනි. එවැනි ප්‍රශ්න අසන අයට,  ජනතා විඥානය හෝ මාක්ස්වාදීන් විසින් සමාජයේ මතුපිට පවතින පෙනුමට පහළින් වැඩෙන ප්‍රතිවිරෝධී බලවේග විනිවිද දැකීමට භාවිතා කරන අපෝහක විධික්‍රමය පිළිබඳව හෝ අවබෝධයක් නැති බව ඇලන් වුඩ්ස් මෙම ලිපියෙන් පැහැදිලි කරයි. 2022 මාර්තු මාසයේදී In Defense of Marxism සඟරාවේ පළ වූ මෙම ලිපිය ලෝක තත්ත්වය සහ විප්ලවයේ සැබෑ ගතිකයන් පිළිබඳ…

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Why has there not been a revolution?

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka So-called left activists, even some self-described Marxists, often exclaim with despair and frustration: “look at how terrible things are, why hasn’t there been a revolution yet?” As Alan Woods explains in this article, those who ask such questions have no understanding of the consciousness of the masses, nor of the dialectical method, which Marxists use to penetrate below the superficial surface appearance of society, to the growing tension underneath. This article, which originally appeared in In Defense of Marxism magazine in March 2022, provides an excellent…

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The Collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Raju Prabath Lankaloka This month marks the 31st anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The most powerful deformed workers’ state was collapsing into chaos as supposed communists were looting the state and its assets, cheered on by the imperialists of the west. Capitalism reared its ugly head, and the workers of the Soviet Union had to pay the price. The collapse of the USSR was presented by the defenders of capitalism as the equivalent of the final victory of the “free market economy” over “Communism”. Three decades ago,…

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Bangladesh – The National consultation on child labour

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बाल श्रम उन्मूलन पर कैंपेन अगेंस्ट चाइल्ड लेबर, CALC भारत द्वारा ढाका, बांग्लादेश में आयोजित कार्यशाला में विशेष अतिथि के रूप में भाग लिया। The National consultation on child labour was organised by Campaign Against Child Labour CACL-INDIA in collaboration with Bangladesh Shishu Kalyan at Dhaka,Bangladesh, I represented CACL, India in this consultation. The consultation is the result of the series dialogues online , offline, and via mail etc. Participants from different sectors like agriculture, NGOs civil society, Street vendors union, trade unions, media, home based worker, health sector, domestic…

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LABOUR QAUMI MOVEMENT, PAKISTAN

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Narr Wala Road, School Stop, Marzi Pura, Faisalabad. Labour Qaumi Movement, Pakistan is progressive democratic and secular party representing the working class. Its aim is to end all forms of exploitation and to establish the rule of the working class over the state. Pakistan being the state is subject to the serious economic, social and ideological contradiction, exploitation, poverty, intolerance, extremism and violence continue to intensity. Today class exploitation in various forms is continuously increasing. There are no imminent signs that labouring farmers, workers, professionals, women and religious minorities will…

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A message from Wasantha to the people!

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Dear Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, 2022 is over, and a new year has dawned. It is the 140th day that I have been in prison for labelling terrorists who committed economic crimes, killed people and maintained a murderous culture while the real terrorists were free. Not only me but there are also other people in prison who fought for a better society and demanded economic and political change. I know that even if many people are not imprisoned due to the repression of the government, they do not have the…

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Inside China’s protests

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Republished From: https://redflag.org.au/article/inside-chinas-protests by Robert Narai Tuesday, 13 December 2022 Video footage shows a crowd of students at Tsinghua University in Beijing holding up blank pieces of paper and chanting, “Democracy, rule of law, freedom of expression!” Through a loudspeaker, a young woman can be heard in the background shouting: “If because we are afraid of being arrested, we don’t speak, I believe our people will be disappointed in us. As a Tsinghua student, I will regret this my entire life!” “We are holding up blank pieces of paper because it…

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No to super exploitation in IT BPM sector!

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka The IT-BPM sector has been considered one of the growing sectors in Sri Lanka. They claim that, during the past decade, the IT-BPM industry in Sri Lanka has seen substantial expansion and had some of the strongest growth among all export sectors. According to them, over the last 10 years, the industry has grown more than 300%, reaching US$1.2 billion in revenue, recruiting more than 80,000 professionals and contributing 12% of Sri Lankan service exports. Sri Lanka Association for Software Services Companies (SLASSCOM) foresees the industry…

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USA-67 YEARS OF CLASS-COLLABORATION

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On December 5, 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merged into a single mega-bureaucracy of business unionism: the AFL-CIO. Today, about 10,000 union officials or staff in the US bring home salaries greater than $100,000, consuming over $1 billion of their member’s money. Their economic status tends to make them identify with the interests of the employers – that’s why top officials refer to the “middle class,” instead of the “working class.” Union officials control $30 billion, much of it invested, giving…

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