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SRI LANKA: The proposed amendment to CPC will create serious problems for administration of justice

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 wisidagamage

n Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The proposed amendment to CPC will create serious problems for administration of justice By Basil Fernando The proposed Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure Act No. 15 of 1979 will open up a Pandora’s box of serious abuses. In essence what the Bill proposes is to allow Magistrates to dispense with the personal attendance in court of a suspect or accused. The same principle is extended to High Court Judges, including the right…

Greetings From Sri Lanka!

October 15, 2021October 16, 2021 wisidagamage

It is a timely necessity to launch a new web called Asian Commune which will bring together workers and other oppressed people in Asian countries. Not only in Asia, but all over the world, working people who are battered by neo-liberal policies are engaged in various struggles against those policies in various ways. In those struggles, they get different experiences. The people who are engaging in such struggles are facing the same kind of repression, in capitalist countries in one way and in the third world countries in another way.…

Creating National (In)security: Prevention of Terrorism Act and the Death Penalty

October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 wisidagamage

AMBIKA SATKUNANATHAN on 10/10/2021 Today is the World Day Against the Death Penalty Today, when globally the call for the abolition of the death penalty is renewed and its inhumane and cruel nature is highlighted, we must recognize that the death penalty is one of the many tools of oppression used by structures of discrimination and violence. This article sets out the way in which the death penalty functions as a tool of oppression and its role in an unrestrained national security regime that abuses the vulnerable and marginalized in the…

Socialist Challenges and the Future of the Labour Movement

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 wisidagamage

Xiang Qing and Lam Chi Leung One of the major features of the world economic crisis that began in 2008 is that it not only combines a profound political and social crisis, but also combines an unprecedented natural environmental crisis and a major crisis raging by the new crown pneumonia epidemic. So far, not only the global economic recession has not ended, but also large-scale mass anti-government actions, even revolutionary actions, are spreading among many countries, and there is also a phenomenon of the rise of extreme right populists. The…

Sri Lanka – URGENT REMEDIAL MEASURES

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 wisidagamage

PROPOSED BY TRADE UNIONS IN ORDER FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA TO DEMONSTRATE ITS POLITICAL WILL TOWARDS COMPLYING WITH PRE REQUISITES OF THE EU GSP+ REGIME 1. Rescind the proclamation of the emergency law and establish an atmosphere conducive to the exercise of fundamental civil liberties.1 2. COVID health guidelines shall not be abused to stifle the right to freedom of expression and the right to peaceful and non-violent means of public protests which are preconditions of the right to freedom of association guaranteed by ILO Convention No.87 and…

SRI LANKA: THAT NONSENSE CALLED CRIMINAL JUSTICE

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 wisidagamage

An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: THAT NONSENSE CALLED CRIMINAL JUSTICE Basil Fernando A guy enters into two prisons with a gang of his friends. In one of the prisons he threatens a group of prisoners undergoing trial by placing his pistol on the forehead of one. He tells them what they should do about their case. Inside another prison he wants his friends and himself to take a look at the gallows, to please his appetite for fun in the evening…. The prison guards facilitate…

Asia Commune – “Creating a non-discriminatory, egalitarian democratic way of life”

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 wisidagamage

By Abul Hossain, Bangladesh Although commune is a French word, it has a political and philosophical significance. In the eighteenth century, the great Karl Marx used the word “commune” in his various writings. In the European countries of the eighteenth century, political-economic and social changes took place. Marx has closely observed the changes in England, Germany and France. Marx’s thought was deeply influenced by the economic and political changes that took place in different countries of the eighteenth-century in Europe. During this time Marx wrote a manuscript on his philosophy…

Need of Asia Commune

October 4, 2021October 6, 2021 wisidagamage

Asia commune is the civil movement of Asian civil society. It covers countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Maldives, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia etc. These countries all have many unhappy distinctions: mass poverty with its attendant evils of ignorance, ill health and technological backwardness, territorial disputes among the major states of India and Pakistan, internal polarizations that threaten peace and integrity in almost each state, and the lack of mutual trust among its constituents. Of all the regions, South Asia happens to be rather well defined geographically,…