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Carnage on Easter Sunday: Let’s support the public protest demanding the truth to be revealed!

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Joint Press Statement by Socialist Party of Sri Lanka and Asia Commune. Carnage on Easter Sunday: Let’s support the public protest demanding the truth to be revealed! Colombe Archbishop Cardinal Malcom Ranjith on 17th April, called upon all citizens of Sri Lanka, irrespective of their racial or religious differences to unite with victims of Easter Sunday Carnage to create a strong human chain, on Friday 21st April, from Colombo to Negombo to call upon the truth and justice for the victims of Easter Sunday carnage. We, Socialist Party of Sri…

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Can Capitalism be “reset”?

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By Daniel Campos 5/1/21 Published in International SOCIALISMO Magazine 3 The Forum World Economic Davos in Switzerland, proposed a plan called “The Great Reset”, to exit the tremendous economic, social, political crisis and environmental plaguing to humanity. According to this plan, when the COVID-19 pandemic ends, the world must “reset” or “restart”, and restart based on a series of measures. “The Great Reset” was presented by the Prince of Wales, Carlos, eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, in 2020 together with magnates such as Bill Gates, and…

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Learn to think

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A friendly suggestion to certain ultra-leftists By Leon Trotsky May 22, 1938 Certain professional ultra-left phraseologists try at all costs to “correct” the theses of the secretariat of the Fourth International on the war, according to their own ossified prejudices. They especially attack that part of the theses which asserts that, in all imperialist countries, the revolutionary party, while remaining in irreconcilable opposition to its own government in time of war, must nonetheless shape its practical policy in each country according to the internal situation and the international groups, clearly…

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SRI LANKA: A statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023

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March 08, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: A statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 The International Women’s Day is observed on March 8th to acknowledge the tremendous work done by the feminist movements worldwide. This year’s (2023) theme, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, highlights the role of innovative technology in promoting gender equality and meeting the health and developmental needs of women and girls. Innovation and technology have the potential to empower women and girls and help realise their…

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The History of International Women’s Day

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The first “Woman’s Day” celebration took place in Chicago on May 3, 1908. Organized by the U.S. Socialist Party, it brought together an audience of 1,500 women who demanded economic and political equality, on a day officially dedicated to “the female workers’ causes.” The following year, women gathered in New York for a similar celebration. Inspired by these American initiatives, European socialists soon followed suit. Find out more in this video about International Women’s Day. From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWjIWJzT7Q

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21st February 1848, the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published.

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OnThisDay, 21st February 1848, the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published. “(…) But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to Communism. We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the…

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World Bank is no friend of working people or the planet

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February 2, 2023 Policies facilitate the upward distribution of wealth, regardless of human and environmental cost by Pete Dolack Every so often, the World Bank puts out a paper that calls for better social protection or at least a somewhat better deal for working people. The public relations people there evidently believe we have very short memories. No, dear reader, the World Bank has not changed its function, nor have elephants begun to fly. Without any hint of irony, the World Bank’s latest attempt at selective amnesia is what it…

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SRI LANKA: Few Reflections on the Sri Lanka’s Independence Day!

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An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Few Reflections on the Sri Lanka’s Independence Day By Basil Fernando As Sri Lanka is to celebrate its 75th anniversary of Independence on the 4th of February, the general reaction of the people around the country this year is one of despondency with serious criticisms about the failure of governance in the country.  The need for thinking through some of the more difficult problems relating to the rule of law and human rights has been a long felt need of all…

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Why is the South African Rugby Union hosting an apartheid rugby team?

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I was stunned to read the South African Rugby Union is to host a rugby tour in March by a team representing the apartheid state of Israel in the 2023 Currie Cup competition. The Tel Aviv Heat have been invited to play four games in South Africa next month. From New Zealand it seems utterly incomprehensible that a country which experienced first-hand the brutality and degradation associated with apartheid could, after liberation, agree to host a team representing another racist apartheid state. How could this be possible? Which part of…

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