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A Programme for Fighting Back

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Click the link here to sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/trade-unions-a-programme-for-fighting-back By United Socialists Sri Lanka is on the verge of economic collapse. The current government of Gotabaya Rajapaksa and its capitalist allies do not see any way out of the current crisis because they limit their solutions within the narrow framework of capitalism.  Attacking the wages and conditions of workers and farmers, cutting the public services, or selling parts of the country to the lenders (China, India, and the West) is not the solution. All this would only make the crisis…

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Discussion on Creating a collective organisation against Trade Union Busting in South Asia

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Join Zoom Meeting Organised by Asia Commune : Saturday 12th February 2022 Topic: Creating a collective organisation against Trade Union Busting in South Asia https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83477651982?pwd=T2VENlZBRWJnRTBJdWJ6eCsxTVJtdz09 Meeting ID: 83477651982 Passcode: 187168 Speakers:  Comrade Jayanta Das, Addl General Secretary- National Hawkers Federation, National General Council Member – AITUC, Odisha State Executive Member – Communist Party of India, Former Odisha State General Secretary – AISF, Bhagabati Bhawan, 16- Ashok Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha- 751009, Mob:- +919437060009  +919437160009 R.SEVVILAM PARITHI, ADVOCATE National Vice-President Central Committee ,AILC- All India Lawyers Council New Delhi- 110013 Swasthika Arulingam, Lawyer in Sri…

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Sri Lanka: Journalists commemorate Black January

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Sri Lankan media collectives have called on the nation’s government to take sincere action to end impunity for crimes against journalists, in an annual ‘Black January’ commemoration on January 28. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses solidarity with its Sri Lankan affiliates, the Free Media Movement (FMM), the Federation of Media Employees Trade Union (FMETU), and the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), and urges the Sri Lankan government to investigate the numerous killings and disappearances of media workers. A collective of Sri Lankan media and press freedom organisations conducted a protest in…

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Sri Lanka- Protest campaign -උද්ඝෝෂණය-எதிர்ப்புப் பிரச்சாரம்

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Topic: Protest campaign IN SRI LANKA Inviting by the socialist party of Sri Lanka Place – In front of Aheliyagoda Pradeshiya Sabha Time – 10.00 am (Sri Lanka)   5.30 am (France)   4.30 am (London) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88511493105?pwd=elFSV0hyUkgzODRKMVFnaGgrb0lJUT09 Meeting ID: 885 1149 3105 Passcode: 639711 Protest campagin  Inviting by the socialist party of Sri Lanka Place – In front of Aheliyagoda Pradeshiya Sabha Time – 10.00 am (Sri Lanka)   5.30 am (France)   4.30 am (London)  Slogans –      1. Offer an economic/Food subsidy for Tea Estate workers…

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SRI LANKA- STOP TRADE UNION BUSTING ACTIVITIES AT ATG GLOVES (PVT) LTD

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Click Here to sign the petition ISSUE: Human Rights Asia Commune Campaign Program January 25, 2022 Dear Friends, Asia Commune has received information from The Commercial and Industrial Workers Union (CIWU) regarding an ANTI-UNION ACTIVITIES BY THE ATG GLOVES KNITTING (PVT) LTD, SRI LANKA against the CIWU. ATG Gloves Knitting PVT Ltd is one of the participants of the United Nations Global Compact. We are conscious and aware that on the 20th August, 2021, ATG Gloves Knitting PVT Ltd, a Gloves Manufacturing Company which exports to over 35 Countries, dismissed…

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Remembering Antonio Gramsci

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By Lorenzo Alfano Antonio Gramsci was born on this day in 1891. We remember his revolutionary life and his contributions to the struggle against capitalism. It’s late at night on Turin’s Via dell’Arcivescovado. A man with a Southern accent shows up at L’Ordine Nuovo’s office, insisting on speaking with the lead editor. For L’Ordine Nuovo is not only the workers’ daily, but also the paper of Antonio Gramsci. Yet the political climate here in Turin at the start of the 1920s is tense — every night, factory workers do shifts on guard duty…

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Myanmar: Two journalists killed in military attacks

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Journalists Sai Win Aung and Pu Tuidim were killed by Myanmar’s military in two separate attacks on December 25 and January 8 respectively. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns the continued violence against media workers in Myanmar and calls for those responsible to be brought to justice immediately. Editor for the Federal News Journal, Sai Win Aung, was killed in an attack by military forces on December 25 while reporting on refugees in Kayin state’s Myawaddy township, near the Thai border. Sai Win Aung, also known as A Sai K, was fatally shot by…

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SRI LANKA: Participatory Constitution-making – The essentials

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An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Participatory Constitution-making – The essentials By Basil Fernando Today, there is a consensus that Sri Lanka has entered into a period of crisis that is worse than it has ever faced in recent history. It is also agreed among most of the people who are highly knowledgeable in the field of economics and financing that this crisis will last for a long time even if some genuine effort is made to rescue the country even at this stage. However, if…

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