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Local government Election May 6, 2025 – Sri Lanka Asia Commune (Central Commune Committee – Sri Lanka) Election Results Analysis

Samantha

4th annex This statement is related to the 3rd annex on the election, published on 5th of May 2025, on the Asiacommune.orgwebsite. Excerpt – The statement of the Asia Commune regarding the local government election scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka on 6thof May 2025 (Published date – 5th of May 2025 A significant portion of the people who had largely granted a two-thirds majority to the National People’s Power (NPP) is expected to abstain from voting in this Provincial Council Election. According to information received by the Asia…

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A Language of Blood Has Gripped Our World: The Twentieth Newsletter (2025)

Samantha

Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher (Sudan), Untitled, n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Over the past weeks, international focus has no doubt been on the escalation between India and Pakistan, which we will write more about once the dust settles. Though none of the armies crossed the border or the Line of Control, concern is nonetheless understandable: both countries wield nuclear weapons in their arsenal. Now, there has effectively been a return to the ceasefire of 1948, which has lingered in the decades since without…

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No to the oppression of the ruling classes of India and Pakistan ! In defense of the rights of the Kashmiri people!

Samantha

Writes from India Sagnik Mukherjee Amid the recent war-like tension brewing between India and Pakistan, both states have issued various statements. Following a sudden terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, on April 22, 2025, which claimed 26 lives, the situation escalated into one resembling war. The Indian state, under the pretext of combating so-called “Islamic terrorism,” is preparing for military action. Similarly, the Pakistani state has historically supported the same kind of frustrated petty-bourgeois terrorism, often veiled in religious garb—because religious identity (not religion itself) proves most effective and…

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Reform vs. Revolution

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Professor Wolff begins this week on Economic Update by analyzing the choice between reform and revolution through two historical discussions: the anti-slavery fight in the mid-19th century and the anti-Depression fight in the U.S. during the 1930s. He then explains the stakes in choosing reform or revolution as goals for social change and outlines how and why both options are now back on the working class’s agenda in the U.S. He concludes the discussion by suggesting that revolution is the necessary guarantor of the duration of reforms in the U.S.,…

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Israel’s Crimes in the West Bank: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2025)

Samantha

Malak Mattar (Palestine), If the Olive Tree Knew, 2025. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1948, the newly proclaimed Israeli government seized 78% of Palestinian land and expelled more than half of the population (750,00 people) from their villages and towns. This act disregarded United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947), which called for the termination of the colonial British Mandate and the partition of Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state. This process came to be known as the Nakba (Catastrophe).…

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LOCALGOVERNMENT ELECTIONS ON 06TH MAY 2025 – SRILANKA OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE ASIA COMMUNE

Samantha

3 rd Annex Asiacommune.org Published – 05th May 2025 We declared our point of views of last presidential and parliamentary election which was held on year 2024. Those views are attached the below statements. As recorded there, the people delivered an electoral verdict demanding a revolutionary change. On the other hand, the pseudo-leftist groups and parties, which appeared from a leftist perspective, were eliminated both from the electoral arena and from politics altogether. As of May 6th, 2025, it has been 7 months and 15 days since Anura Kumara Dissanayake…

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Statement on May Day 2025 – Workers’ Rights Around the World

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On this International Workers’ Day, we honour the struggles and achievements of workers across the globe who have fought tirelessly for fair wages, safe working conditions, and dignity in labour. May Day is not just a celebration of past victories but a call to action for the ongoing fight against exploitation, inequality, and oppression in workplaces worldwide.   In 2025, workers continue to face immense challenges—from rising automation and precarious gig economy jobs to union suppression and wage stagnation. In many countries, labour rights are under attack, with governments and corporations…

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How Worker-to-Worker Unionism Can Transform America

Samantha

REMINDER: Register for Socialism 2025 by Friday, April 25th for the early bird discounted rate! At a bleak moment in US politics, the labor movement can provide a rare source of hope. Join labor scholar and organizer Eric Blanc for a timely discussion about the main lessons of the bottom-up unionization surge that has swept the US since 2021, and how this grassroots labor momentum can be maintained under the new Trump administration. This session is organized in partnership with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Don’t miss it! Register for Socialism 2025…

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Waiting for a New Bandung Spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)

Samantha

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the last days of March, I was in China’s new city of Xiong’an, less than a two-hour drive from Beijing. The city is being built to relieve congestion in the capital, but it will also be home to women and men who are eager to develop China’s new quality productive forces and will be the centre of universities, hospitals, research institutes, and innovative technology companies, including high-tech farming. Xiong’an has the ambition of reaching ‘net-zero’ carbon dioxide…

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