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SRI LANKA: IMF observations on an Independent Prosecution office for Sri Lanka

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A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  SRI LANKA: IMF observations on an Independent Prosecution office for Sri Lanka IMF in its recent report issued in September titled Sri Lanka; Technical Assistance Report-Governance Diagnostic Assessment, has directed its attention to the problems relating to the independence in conduct of prosecutions into crimes in Sri Lanka. It points to the absence of independent prosecutor in Sri Lanka and also notes that this given rise to real or perceived impression about the weaknesses of the existing system.  Asian Human Rights Commission has for many years…

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The Women’s Revolution of the 21st Century

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From Women of La Marx we prepared this document, illustrating the struggle that women have led in a permanent revolution, over the course of centuries. Throughout history, we have obtained conquests and demands, with mobilizations that gradually stopped being a vanguard to become a mass process, with the objective of destroying patriarchy and oppression, in a progressive awareness, in order to abolish the capitalist system, through the revolution of the most oppressed people and sectors, to open the way to the global socialist system. Today we raise our fists together…

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Long live the Palestinian Insurrection, long live the Third Intifada! Down with the state of Israel!

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10/10/2023 La Marx International On October 7, 2023, Palestinian fighters, armed youth and self-organized militias, began an offensive operation against Israel’s occupation, penetrating the Beit Hanoun border crossing, the Zikim base and the headquarters in Reim . This action is part of the 3rd Palestinian Intifada that began on May 6, 2021, which now took a leap when militants from various Palestinian organizations and Hamas decided to begin recovering the territories occupied by Israel by adopting the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare. Groups of fighters began tearing down the walls and barbed wire fences surrounding Gaza with bulldozers, cutting holes in the cables,…

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GOING BEYOND FAILED LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM

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by Mazibuko Jara – Oct 2, 2023 Amandla 89, COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of this structure is the domination of the food system by a few large capitalist farms and other large players in the entire agricultural value chain. The core features of this inherited land and agrarian structure are a combination of land dispossession, cheap black…

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Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy

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By Prabir Purkayastha (Posted Sep 16, 2023) Originally published: NewsClick.in on September 9, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in) The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell—had ended with the nineteenth century.1 The twentieth century was more about industry-based R&D laboratories, where corporations gathered together leading scientists and technologists to create the technologies of the future. In this phase, capital was still expanding production. Even…

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What Is Leninism? By Leon Trotsky!

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The New International, March 1944 Leon Trotsky What Is Leninism? A Timely Excerpt from Trotsky’s New Course From The New International, Vol. X No. 3, March 1944, pp. 78–79.Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL. Leninism cannot be conceived of without theoretical breadth, without a critical analysis of the material bases of the political process. The weapon of Marxian investigation must be constantly sharpened and applied. It is precisely in this that tradition consists, and not in the substitution of a formal reference or of an accidental quotation. Least…

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Retired Chilean Army brigadier takes own life after conviction for 1973 murder of Víctor Jara

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Hernán Chacón Soto, 86, had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for aggravated homicide and 10 years for aggravated kidnapping for the assassinations of the singer and Littré Quiroga Rocío Montes Santiago – Aug 30, 2023 One of the seven former members of the Chilean military convicted of the torture and assassination of singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, retired brigadier Hernán Chacón Soto, took his own life after the verdict was returned by the Supreme Court, as confirmed to this newspaper by the Ministry of the Interior. Soto, 86, was found…

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The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece

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Sean Ledwith 27 August 2023 Red Traces The inspired insights of the first materialists in antiquity laid the foundations of modern science, as Sean Ledwith describes Marx and Engels both had a lifelong interest in the ideas, events and personalities of ancient Greece. Conventional historians often like to talk about the so-called ‘Greek Miracle’ lasting from about 700-300 BCE in which many of the foundational concepts of the Western world first emerged. Pioneering developments in disciplines as diverse as architecture, drama, philosophy, poetry, political science, and sculpture were made by…

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‘The Surrender of the Second International in the Emancipation of Women’ by Clara Zetkin from Communist International. Vol. 6 Nos. 9-10. April, 1929.

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Zetkin with Volga German workers at “Sarpintrest” in Krasnoarmeysk. 1925. A substantial essay by Clara Zetkin tracing the historic successes and failures of the Socialist International in support of women’s emancipation in an effort contextualize the then differences that existed between the Communist International and the Second in the post-war period. From one who was there. ‘The Surrender of the Second International in the Emancipation of Women’ by Clara Zetkin from Communist International. Vol. 6 Nos. 9-10. April, 1929. THE inaugural congress of the Communist International in March, 1919, in…

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