Category: History

Lenin – the greatest revolutionary of his time!

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka On 21st January 1924, Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov, the leader of the Russian Soviet state and Communist International died after a prolonged illness. He was fifty-three years of age. His life covers years of profound upheaval, crisis and transformation – the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century – crowned by the First World War and the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was without doubt the greatest revolutionary of his time, a giant of a man, whose actions changed the…

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நண்பர்களின் பார்வையில் மார்க்ஸ்…

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மார்க்ஸ் ஒரு பாணியைக் கடைப்பிடித்தார் . அவர் ஒரு கருத்தாக்கத்தை சாத்தியப்பட்ட அளவு சுருக்கமாக உருவாக்கிக் கொள்வார் . அதை தொழிலாளர்களால் புரிந்துகொள்ள முடியாத வார்த்தைகள் எதுவும் வந்துவிடக்கூடாது என்று மிகக் கவனத்தோடு சொற்களைத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்து விரிவாக விளக்குவார் . பிறகு பார்வையாளர்களைக் கேள்வி கேட்கச் சொல்வார் . யாரும் கேள்வி கேட்கவில்லை என்றால் , பார்வையாளர்கள் தவறாகப் புரிந்து கொண்டுவிடக்கூடாது , புரிதலில் எந்த இடைவெளியும் இருக்கக் கூடாது என்பதற்காக , பார்வையாளர்களைக் கேள்வி கேட்டுப் பரிசோதித்துக் கொள்வார். அவரது இந்தத் திறமை பற்றி நான் வியப்புத் தெரிவித்தபோது , தோழர்கள் அவர் ஏற்கனவே பிரஸ்ஸல்ஸில் தொழிலாளர் கழகத்தில் இதுபோன்று உரையாற்றி இருப்பதாகச் சொன்னார்கள் . எவ்வாறாயினும் , ஒரு நல்ல ஆசிரியனுக்கான அத்தனை தகுதிகளும் அவரிடம் இருந்தன . உரைகளின்போது அவர் கரும்பலகையைப் பயன்படுத்துவார்…

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The Collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Raju Prabath Lankaloka This month marks the 31st anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The most powerful deformed workers’ state was collapsing into chaos as supposed communists were looting the state and its assets, cheered on by the imperialists of the west. Capitalism reared its ugly head, and the workers of the Soviet Union had to pay the price. The collapse of the USSR was presented by the defenders of capitalism as the equivalent of the final victory of the “free market economy” over “Communism”. Three decades ago,…

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සෝවියට් සංගමය බිඳවැටීම…

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රාජු ප්‍ර‍භාත් ලංකාලෝක විසිනි 2022 දෙසැම්බර් මාසය සෝවියට් සංගමය බිඳවැටීමේ 31 වන සංවත්සරය සනිටුහන් කරයි. බලවත්ම විකෘති කම්කරු රාජ්‍යය කඩා වැටෙමින් අවුල් ජාලයක් බවට පත්වෙමින් තිබියදී බටහිර අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ගේ ප්‍රීති ඝෝෂා මැද කොමියුනිස්ට්වාදීන් කියාගත් අය රාජ්‍යය සහ එහි වත්කම් කොල්ල කන්නට විය. ධනවාදය එහි අවලස්සන හිස ඔසවා ගත් අතර එහි මිල ගෙවීමට සිදුවූයේ සෝවියට් කම්කරුවන්ටය. ධනවාදයේ ඇම්බැට්ටයින් විසින් සෝවියට් සංගමයේ බිඳවැටීම යනු “කොමියුනිස්ට්වාදය“ අභිබවා “නිදහස් වෙළඳපල ආර්ථිකය” ලබාගත් අවසාන ජයග්‍රහණය ලෙසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. දශක තුනකට පෙර එය ධනේශ්වරය සහ එහි ක්ෂමාලාපකයින් තුළ ප්‍රීති ප්‍රමෝදයක් ඇති කළේය. ඔවුන් සමාජවාදයේ අවසානය, කොමියුනිස්ට්වාදයේ…

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USA-67 YEARS OF CLASS-COLLABORATION

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On December 5, 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merged into a single mega-bureaucracy of business unionism: the AFL-CIO. Today, about 10,000 union officials or staff in the US bring home salaries greater than $100,000, consuming over $1 billion of their member’s money. Their economic status tends to make them identify with the interests of the employers – that’s why top officials refer to the “middle class,” instead of the “working class.” Union officials control $30 billion, much of it invested, giving…

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Textile factory in Australia in 1981

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On this day, 27 November 1981, 300 mostly migrant women workers at the Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia walked out on strike when they were furious that Textile Workers’ Union officials failed to show up for a Friday meeting about their pay claim. They then made plans to picket the plant on Monday. As Monday morning came around, the women had assembled a mass picket at the plant, and marched to another nearby Kortex factory, where most workers joined them on strike. Together, speaking a mixture of Turkish, Arabic,…

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ෆ්‍රෙඩ්රික් එංගල්ස් වෙතින් ලද උරුමය

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රාජු ප්‍ර‍භාත් ලංකාලෝක විසිනි අගෝස්තු 28 දිනට මාක්ස්වාදයේ සම කතෘවරයෙකු වූ ෆ්‍රෙඩ්රික් එංගල්ස්ගේ ජන්ම සංවත්සරය යෙදී ඇත. ඒ නිමිතිකොට, මාක්ස්වාදයේ අදහස් වර්ධනය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් ඔහු ලබා දුන් අමිල දායකත්වය පිළිබඳව නැවත විමසා බැලීමට අප මෙය අවස්ථාවක් කර ගනිමු.මාක්ස්වාදය විසින් මාක්ස්ගේ නම දරා සිටින නමුදු, එංගල්ස් විසින් එයට ලබා දුන් වැදගත් දායකත්වය සහ මෙම දෙදෙනාගේ ජීවිත අතර පැවති ඓන්ද්‍රීය සම්බන්ධය අප කිසි විටෙකත් අමතක නොකළ යුතුය. දර්ශනය, ආර්ථික විද්‍යාව, ඉතිහාසය, භෞතික විද්‍යාව, භාෂා විද්‍යාව සහ මිලිටරි විද්‍යාවන් වැනි විවිධ ක්ෂේත්‍ර පිළිබඳ දැනුමක් තිබූ විශ්වකෝෂ මනසක් එංගල්ස් සතුව තිබූ බවට සැකයක් නැත.…

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202 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS

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“All my life I’ve been doing what I was meant to do—I’ve been playing second fiddle—and I think I’ve done my job pretty well. I was glad that I had such a great first violin like Marx.” Friedrich Engels. “After his friend Karl Marx (who died in 1883), Engels was the most remarkable scientist and teacher of the modern proletariat in the entire civilized world. Since the fate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the life work of both friends has become their common cause. Therefore, in order to understand what…

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The fall of the Berlin Wall has passed into history as a synonym for the collapse of “Communism”.

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka The fall of the Berlin Wall has passed into history as a synonym for the collapse of “Communism”. In the following decades since those momentous events, we have witnessed an unprecedented ideological offensive against the ideas of Marxism on a world scale. This event was held up as decisive proof of the death of Communism, Socialism and Marxism. Not long ago, it was even presented as the end of history. But since then, the wheel of history has turned several times. The argument that henceforth the…

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Ten Days that Shook the World!

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From: https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed/1919/10days/10days/ Transcribed from a 1919, 1st Edition, published by BONI & Liveright, Inc. for International Publishers, the publishing house of the Communist Party, USA, of which John Reed was a founding member.Transcribed and marked up for the John Reed Internet Archive, sub-Archive of the Marxists Internet Archive, by David Walters in 2001.Converted to eBook format for the Marxists Internet Archive by Pablo Stern in 2017.

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