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Sri Lanka: 2024 Presidential Election and the way forward for the oppressed people!

11Sep

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English, Featured, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: 2024 Presidential Election and the way forward for the oppressed people!

By Wilfred Silva Today, the question that we have been debated among the people of Sri Lanka, is what steps should be taken in the upcoming presidential Election. We, people of Sri Lanka have been witnessed 75 years of dependant political and socio-economic practice by the capitalists elites (Both Right and Left) in Sri Lanka. Now, we are facing two questions in this conjuncture. What force will overthrow the repressive and corrupt regimes in Sri Lanka? And If it is possible, what kind of political economy will emerge in the future? Unfortunately, it is completely irrational to think that, there will be such a change from the upcoming presidential election to be held in Sri Lanka on 21st September 2024. Therefore, we request the workers, farmers, ethnic minorities an...

2024 ජනාධිපතිවරණය සහ පීඩිත ජනතාවට ඇති ඉදිරි මාවත!

6Sep

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Featured, Sinhala, Sri Lanka

2024 ජනාධිපතිවරණය සහ පීඩිත ජනතාවට ඇති ඉදිරි මාවත!

By Wilfred Silva අද ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජනතාව අතර විවාදයට ලක්වී ඇති ප්‍රශ්නය වනුයේ, එළඹෙන ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී කුමන පියවරක් ගත යුතු ද යන්නයි. වසර හැත්තෑ පහක් පුරා පරාධීන දේශපාලන හා සමාජ ආර්ථික පිළිවෙතක් අනුගමනය කළ දකුණ සහ වම යන සෑම සියලු දේශපාලන ප්‍රවණතාවයකට ම අයත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පාලක පන්ති ප්‍රභූන් විසින් මෙතෙක් පවත්වා ගෙන ගොස් ඇති මර්දනකාරී හා දූෂිත පාලන තන්ත්‍ර‍ය පෙරළා දැමීම කුමන බලවේගයක් සිදු කරන්නේද? එසේ පෙරළා දැමීමට හැකි වන්නේ නම් ඉන්පසු කෙබඳු දේශපාලන ආර්ථික ක්‍රමයක් බිහි වන්නේ ද යන්නත් අද අප හමුවේ ඇති ප්‍රධාන ගැටලුව වන්නේ ය.‍ එහෙත් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් එබඳු වෙනසක් ඇති වේ යැයි සිතීම සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම මනෝමූල අදහසකි මෙම තත්වය තුළ, ජනතාවට සහන සැලසෙන සැබෑ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී වෙනසක් ඇති කිරීම සඳහා ජනතාව&nbs...

THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SRI LANKA

2Sep

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English, Featured, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized

THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SRI LANKA

Note for the article This article was written by Comrade Upali Cooray in the early period of 1980s in order to promote a discussion on “National Question” among progressives in Sri Lanka. Today, All Sri Lankans are heading for Presidential election on 21st September 2024 and the majority of the people are demanding to establish democracy; but no of any principle candidates are giving priority to National question and self-determination of Tamil-speaking people. It is a major failure of ruling elites of Sri Lanka for last 75 years. Without giving a real solution to national question in Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan people are not going to have capitalist democracy at all. Wilfred Silva THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SRI LANKA By Upali Cooray INTRODUCTION...

The Commune, a living tradition for Pumé people in Venezuela

12Jul

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English, Featured, International

The Commune, a living tradition for Pumé people in Venezuela

By Chris Gilbert, Cira Pascual Marquina (Posted Jul 10, 2024)Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on July 5, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com) | For many indigenous peoples of Venezuela, the socialist commune is not new at all but resonates with existing and previous social practices that include communal land tenure and self-governance. That is the case for the Pumé community called “Coporo Indígena,” located in upper Apure just outside Biruaca. Due to its small population, this community is registered as a communal council rather than as a commune.The history of this Pumé settlement, which takes its name from the coporo river fish, parallels that of many Indigenous communities who have been systematically displaced from their land and made victims of structural violence. A...

3Jul

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Featured, Politics, Sinhala

ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ජන සන්තක කිරීම

By Jaya Pathmapani on June 24, 2024 1. මැතිවරණ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය පිළිබඳ වර්ධනය වන අතෘප්තිය සහ ‘සිස්ටම් චේන්ජ්’ ඉල්ලීම පරමාදර්ශී ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී අභිලාෂ ප්‍රායෝගික ව සාක්ෂාත් කරගැනීමට නො හැකිවීම නිසා ඇතිවෙන කලකිරීම හේතු කොට ගෙනමැතිවරණ ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය පිළිබඳ මහජන විශ්වාසය විශාල වසයෙන් පළුදු වී තිබේ. අල්ලස හා දූෂණය, නියෝජන ඌනතා, ජනමාධ්‍ය දුෂ්චර්යාව, බෙදුම්කාරී ජනවාර්ගික හා ආගමිකධ්‍රැවීකරණය, තේරී පත්වන නියෝජිතයන්ගේ විෂමාචාරය සහ දේශපාලන ප්‍රභූ පැලැන්තියක නිරන්තර ආධිපත්‍යය ඇතුළු ආවේණික දෝෂවලින් සාම්ප්‍රදායික මැතිවරණ දේශපාලනය විකෘත වී තිබේ. මැතිවරණ&...

France between Fascism and the Popular Front

27Jun

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France between Fascism and the Popular Front

Originally from: https://rosalux.eu/en/2024/frankreich-volksfront-oder-faschismus/ Nessim Achouche 21. June 2024 When Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France in 2017, he vowed in his first public speech that the far right would be erased before of the end of his mandate. Seven years later, Marine Le Pen’ Rassemblement National (RN) is on the verge of power, set to walk through a door that was left wide open by Macron when he decided to dissolve the French legislative assembly and call for snap elections after the highest result ever registered for the far right in France in the European elections on 9 June. The results of the EU elections seemed to confirm the dynamics that were at play in French politics since Macron was re-elected in 2022. The RN under the leadership ...

Dialectic at Work: For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma

20Jun

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English, Featured, Politics

Dialectic at Work: For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma

The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is dedicated to exploring Marxian theory. It utilizes the dialectical mode of reasoning, that is the method developed over the millennia by Plato and Aristotle, and continues to explore new dimensions of theory and praxis via a dialogue. The Marxist dialectic is a revolutionary dialectic that not only seeks to understand the world but rather to change it. In our discussions, the dialectic goes to work intending to solve the urgent life crises that we face as a global community. In this first episode, "For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma", the Dialectic goes to work to explore the following question: Why Marx? Why Marxian Theory? We begin with this, ou...

මැතිවරණ සහ ප්‍රජාතන්‍ත්‍රවාදය නැවත පරිකල්පනය කිරීම

14Jun

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මැතිවරණ සහ ප්‍රජාතන්‍ත්‍රවාදය නැවත පරිකල්පනය කිරීම

Jaya Pathmapani June 11Republished from https://jayavoice.com නියෝජන ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය අසාර්ථක වීමත් සමග ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය යනු නැවත පරිකල්පනය කළයුතු දෙයක් බවට පත්වී තිබේ. “NPP එකට මේ කෝල් එක ආන්සර් කරන්නම වෙනවා” යන සිරස්තලයෙන් ගිය සතියේ එළි දැක්වූ නිර්මාල් රංජිත් සමග පැවැති යූටියුබ් සාකච්ඡාවේදී මහාචාර්ය ජයදේව උයන්ගොඩ ද ඒ බව යුක්ති සහගත ලෙස අවධාරණය කළේය. නියෝජන ප්‍රජාත්න්ත්‍රවාදයේ එකී අසාර්ථකත්වය සහ ඊට මුහුණ දිය හැකි ආකාරය පිළිබඳ ව මම මගේ “සංවිචාරණිය සමාජයක්” කෘතියේ දේශපාලනයට නව දැක්මක් නම් මුල් කොටසින් වෙසෙසින් සාකච්ඡා කළෙමි. එන මස පැවැත්වෙන බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය අරභයා ප්‍රකට බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ගත්කතුවරයෙකු හා සමාජ විචාරකයෙකු වන ජෝර්ජ මොන්බියට් “මහ මැතිවරණ යනු ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ විගඩමකි – මහජ...

4Jun

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English, Featured, Views

“Culture and Imperialism”

“Culture and Imperialism” by Edward W. Said is a seminal work that explores the relationship between imperialism and culture. Here are 10 lessons from the book: 1. The Interconnectedness of Culture and Imperialism: Said argues that culture is deeply intertwined with imperialism. Imperial powers often use culture as a tool for domination, while imperial processes shape cultural production and representation. 2. Imperialism’s Influence on Literature and Art: Said demonstrates how imperialism influences literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression. He examines how colonial experiences are reflected and contested in works of fiction, poetry, and visual art. 3. Challenging Eurocentrism: Said challenges Eurocentric perspectives that dominate Western discourse on culture an...

29May

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English, Featured, History

A Short History of the Paris Commune

Author Florian Grams 150 years ago, the world witnessed the emergence of the first-ever workers’ republic. Not so long ago, the spot where today Sacré-Coeur—the basilica nicknamed the “Alabaster wedding cake”—now stands atop Montmartre in Paris, was once an insalubrious neighbourhood, home to proletarians, day labourers, and sex workers. It was also the birthplace of what Karl Marx saw as a harbinger of things to come: the Paris Commune. One-and-a-half centuries ago, it was here, perched at the top of Montmartre, that its residents stationed artillery they had acquired through community donations to defend themselves against the Prussian army’s siege of Paris. The French government’s attempts to disarm its people had led to acts of resistance in working-class neighbourhoods. The gove...