Month: January 2023

“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror…”

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“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” Happy birthday to the author of these lines, Antonio Gramsci! Born in Sardinia in 1891, Gramsci left his island home at a young age to study in Turin, then the stronghold of Italian industrial capitalism. In 1919 and 1920 he was a leading figure in the Turin workers’ council movement. In 1921, he co-founded…

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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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லெனின் – அவரது காலத்தின் மாபெரும் புரட்சியாளர்!

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka ஜனவரி 21, 1924 அன்று, ரஷ்ய சோவியத் மாநில மற்றும் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் சர்வதேசத்தின் தலைவரான விளாடிமிர் இல்லீச் உல்யனோவ் நீண்டகால நோயால் இறந்தார். அவருக்கு ஐம்பத்து மூன்று வயது. அவரது வாழ்க்கை பல ஆண்டுகளாக ஆழ்ந்த எழுச்சி, நெருக்கடி மற்றும் மாற்றத்தை உள்ளடக்கியது, அவை பத்தொன்பதாம் நூற்றாண்டின் கடைசி காலாண்டிலும் இருபதாம் நூற்றாண்டின் முதல் காலாண்டிலும் வெளிவந்தன, முதல் உலகப் போர் மற்றும் 1917 ரஷ்ய புரட்சி ஆகியவற்றால் முடிசூட்டப்பட்டன. அவர் தனது காலத்தின் மிகப் பெரிய புரட்சியாளராக இருந்தார், ஒரு மனிதனின் ஒரு மாபெரும், அதன் நடவடிக்கைகள் 20 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டில் வரலாற்றின் போக்கை மாற்றின. ஏப்ரல் 10, 1870 இல், வோல்காவில் உள்ள சிம்பிர்ஸ்கில் பிறந்தார், லெனின் ஒரு அரசியல் மாபெரும் என்பதில் சந்தேகமில்லை. தொழிலாள வர்க்கத்தின் இறுதி…

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ලෙනින්- ඔහුගේ කාලයේ සිටි ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨතම විප්ලවවාදියා වේ!

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රාජු ප්‍ර‍භාත් ලංකාලෝක විසිනි 1924 ජනවාරි 21 දින සෝවියට් සංගමයේ සහ කොමියුනිස්ට් ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ නායකයා වූ ව්ලැඩිමීර් ඉලිච් උලියානොව් දිගු කලක් රෝගාතුරව සිට මිය ගියේය. ඒ වනවිට ඔහුගේ වයස අවුරුදු පනස් තුනකි. ඔහුගේ ජීවිතය ආවරණය වී තිබුණේ, පළමු ලෝක සංග්‍රාමයෙන් සහ 1917 රුසියානු විප්ලවයෙන් කූටප්‍රාප්තියට පත්, දහනව වන සියවසේ අවසාන කාර්තුව සහ විසිවන සියවසේ මුල් කාර්තුව සමයේ පැවති ගැඹුරු කැලඹීම්, අර්බුද සහ පරිවර්තනයන්ගෙන්ය. මෙම යෝධ මිනිසා ඔහුගේ කාලයේ සිටි ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨතම විප්ලවවාදියා බවට සැකයක් නැත. ඔහුගේ ක්‍රියාවන් විසින් 20 වන සියවස තුළ ඉතිහාසයේ ගමන් මග වෙනස් කළේය. 1870 අප්‍රේල් 10 දින වොල්ගාහි…

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Biden Launches New Campaign Against Immigrants

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Originally From: https://socialistaction.org/2023/01/19/biden-launches-new-campaign-against-immigrants/ By Barry Sheppard On January 5 President Biden “announced a far-reaching crackdown on people who seek refuge at the border with Mexico, dramatically expanding restrictions on asylum in the most aggressive effort of his administration to discourage migrants from crossing into the United States,” reported the New York Times.  He expanded a Trump-era policy known as Title 42 under which agents on the Mexican border expel any immigrants  who cross the border to apply to immigration authorities for asylum, without any hearings or other due process. This…

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Sri Lanka: Situation of Freedom of expression and the press in Sri Lanka in 2022

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Originally From: https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/blog/detail/category/press-freedom/article/situation-of-freedom-of-expression-and-the-press-in-sri-lanka-in-2022.html Through economic and political collapse, the fundamental human rights the Sri Lankan government claims to uphold are frequently disrespected or ignored. In achieving legitimate democratic governance in Sri Lanka, the voice of protestors must be heard, writes Gayathri Nawarathne. Sri Lanka, a country that considers itself to have a democratic socialist government and has promised through a number of local and international laws the implementation of democratic practices through its governance. Its Constitution which is known as the supreme law of the country has emphasized in “Article…

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Let’s turn the election into a referendum against the oppressive neoliberal agenda!

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka A local government election is in the cards. The Ranil Rajapaksa regime has openly shown that they do not have any interest in the election. It is because they are well aware that their nakedness will get exposed once again through that election. Today, UNP, as well as UPFA, are both in a position where they cannot go to the people. This fact has been accepted by both parties by forming an alliance of UPFA and UNP to contest this election. Three years ago, the representatives…

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සමාජවාදී පක්ෂය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට …

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අසනි පුවත් පුවත් නිවේදනය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සමාජවාදි පක්ෂය රත්නපුර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ඇහැලියගොඩ හා සීතාවක ප්‍රාදේශිය සභාවලටත්, කොළඹ නගර සභාවටත් එළබෙන පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයේදී අපේක්ෂකයන් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට තීරණය කර ඇත. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සමාජවාදී පක්ෂයේ ප්‍ර‍ධාන ලේකම් මහින්ද දේවගේ සහෝදරයා අදහස් දක්වමින්…

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SRI LANKA: Two decisions that expose the utter collapse of rule of law

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A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Two decisions that expose the utter collapse of rule of law The decision made by the Canadian government to impose sanctions on two former presidents, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Staff Sergeant, Sunil Ratnayaka, and Lt. Commander, P Hettiarachchi for gross and systematic violations of human rights during the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), and supreme court decision in favour of petitioners regarding the failure on the part of the then president Maithripala Sirisena, former…

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‘Twenty-Five Essential Working Class Publications of Our Radical Past’ by Revolution’s Newsstand.

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Originally From: https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2022/12/20/twenty-fiveeential-publiations-of-our-revolutionary-past-by-revolutions-newsstand/ A look at what I have come to regard as the twenty-five most important (even if ‘wrong’), consequential (for better and for worse), and finest (we have plenty to be deeply proud of) English-language U.S. left publications of our class’s earlier history. The enormous labor, resources, effort (physical and intellectual), financial sacrifices, and even real danger, gone into producing and distributing these publications is one of the reasons we revolutionaries are still here to continue the fight. From our modest beginnings, mostly confined to the world and…

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