Category: English

Greetings From Sri Lanka!

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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.…

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

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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…

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Socialist Challenges and the Future of the Labour Movement

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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…

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Sri Lanka – URGENT REMEDIAL MEASURES 

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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…

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SRI LANKA: THAT NONSENSE CALLED CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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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…

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

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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…

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Need of Asia Commune

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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,…

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