English

29

Aug

By wisidagamage

English, Human & Democratic Rights

THE IMF TELLING SRI LANKANS: STARVE YOUR PEOPLE AND PAY OUR DEBT !

THE IMF TELLING SRI LANKANS: STARVE YOUR PEOPLE AND PAY OUR DEBT! | Swasthika Arulingam - Attorney At Law I President of United Federation of Labour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxG74APf6Q

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29

Aug

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

ASIA: The mind of Junious (A Parable)

FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-011-2023August 29, 2023 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission ASIA: The mind of Junious (A Parable) This story is about Junious. Please do not think that I made a mistake in naming the hero and misspelling Junious for genius. I quite understand some people's misunderstanding of that sort because an impression has been created and kept for a long time that Junious was in fact the genius. That is far from the truth. A Junious is rightly called Junious, as you will see when you read this story. The Junious was a practical "trickster". And, being…

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13

Aug

By wisidagamage

English, Human & Democratic Rights

REMEMBERING THE RABAA MASSACRE

Seven years ago, on 14 August 2013, the Egyptian army stormed a sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa square and slaughtered more than 1,000 people who were protesting against the removal of the country's first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian opposition had been demonstrating outside the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo for 47 days when security forces attacked at around 6am on 14 August 2013. Security forces shot indiscriminately into the crowd, set fire to the tents people had gathered in and threw tear gas into the masses. People were shot, burnt alive and…

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13

Aug

By wisidagamage

English

“Let’s celebrate life, not death” ~ Kethesh Loganathan 

By Santhuhkumar Pararajasingham Apart from all the difference of opinion and disagreements, Kethesh was one of my indirect mentors in many ways.   I was an enthusiastic reader of his political columns penned under the pseudonym ‘’Sathya’’-which were mainly published in the Daily mirror. In a time when political dissent was brutally suppressed by means of violence and murder, and freedom of expression meant nothing else than ones own death- speaking truth to power, was not merely a brave act, rather a clear manifestation of intellectual honesty and a historic political commitment which many intellectuals lacked at the time.   He was…

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10

Jul

By wisidagamage

English, Sinhala

කොබෝල්ට් තදබදයෙන් විපතට පත් වූවන් පිළිබදව FRANCE 24 හි විමර්ශනය කරයි.

අද සමස්ත ලෝකයම මුහුණ දී ඇති දේශගුණික අර්බුදය මධ්‍යයේ විදුලි මෝටර් රථ පිරිසිදු බලශක්ති ප්‍රභවයක් වශයෙන් හුවා දැක්වීමට මෝටර් රථ නිශ්පාදනයේ යෙදී සිටින බලවත් රටවල් හා සමාගම් උත්සාහ කරමින් සිටිති. පුද්ගලික භාවිතයට යොදා ගන්නා මෝටර් රථ නිපදවීම වෙනුවට පොදු ප්‍රවාහන සේවය දියුණු කිරීම හා ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීම බැහැර කර ඇති බලවත් ජාතීන් හා සමාගම් විදුලි මෝටර් රථය විසදුමක් ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. මෙහි අරමුණ වනුයේ ධනපති සමාගම්වල ලාභ අනුපාතය උපරිම කර ගැනීම මිස දේශගුණික අර්බුදයට විසදුමක් ගෙන ඒ්ම නොවේ.  මෙම විදුලි කාර් බැටරි සඳහා අවශ්‍ය ඉතා උපාය මාර්ගික ඛනිජයක් වනුයේ කොබෝල්ට් ය.  විශේෂයෙන් ලෝකයේ විශාලතම කොබෝල්ට් සංචිත ඇත්තේ  ඩී.ආර්. කොන්ගෝ නැතහොත්…

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19

Jun

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

ලියොන් ට්‍රොට්ස්කිගේ මුණුබුරකු වූ එස්ටෙබන් වොල්කොව් ( Esteban Volkov) මියයයි!

එස්ටෙබන් වොල්කොව් 2023 ජුනි 16 වන දින සවස මෙක්සිකානු අගනුවරදී මිය ගියේය. ඔහුගේ සීයා වන ලියොන් ට්‍රොට්ස්කිගේ ඝාතනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජීවතුන් අතර සිටින අවසාන සාක්ෂිකරු ලෙස ඔහු මෙක්සිකෝවේ සලකනු ලැබීය. 1926 මාර්තු 20 වන දින උපත ලැබූ එස්ටෙබන් වොල්කොව් රුසියානු විප්ලවවාදී ලියොන් ට්‍රොට්ස්කිගේ මුණුපුරා ය. ඔහුගේ සම්පූර්ණ නම Esteban Ercilla Volkov Leontiev වේ. 1940 දී ඔහුගේ සීයාගේ ඝාතනයෙන් පසුව, Volkov සහ ඔහුගේ මව Zinaida Volkova මෙක්සිකෝවේ දේශපාලන රැකවරණ ලබා සිටියහ. මිය යන විට ඔහුගේ වයස අවුරුදු 97 කි. ලියොන් ට්‍රොට්ස්කිට මුණුබුරන් දෙදෙනෙක් සිටි අතර, ඔවුන්ගේ නම් එස්ටෙබන් වොල්කොව් (Esteban Volkov)  සහ Vsevolod "Seva" වොල්කොව් ය. එස්ටෙබන් වොල්කොව් (Esteban Volkov) යනු ට්‍රොට්ස්කිගේ…

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19

Jun

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

“Che” Guevara: Symbol of Revolution

By Juan Bonatto On October 8, 1967, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was wounded in combat and arrested. The next day, he was shot dead, photographed and displayed as a trophy by members of the Bolivian army and the CIA, before being buried in a mass grave With this act, they intended to make much more than a body disappear, but they failed. Che had already occupied a place in the minds of millions of young people and workers throughout the world, and he was becoming a myth, an icon, a north star for rebellion and revolution. Che was born in Rosario, Argentina,…

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01

May

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

May Day 2023: Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers’ Union

This year, the Executive Committee of the Union decided to celebrate May Day on our own, as an independent, working people’s organisation. The urgent need of the hour is to rebuild the CMU as a powerful, independent workers organisation that it once was. Our members are facing enormous difficulties due to the unprecedented economic crisis that has been brought about by the failure of successive governments, and large scale corruption. There has been a massive increase in the cost of living, while our real wages have declined alarmingly. Further, the full weight of the brutal, IMF-imposed austerity measures has fallen…

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19

Apr

By wisidagamage

English, Human & Democratic Rights

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

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 Lanka and Asia Commune unconditionally support this request of Archbishop…

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29

Mar

By wisidagamage

English, Human & Democratic Rights

SRI LANKA: Best of Laws and the Worst of Law Enforcement – The IMF and the IGP

March 24, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Best of Laws and the Worst of Law Enforcement - The IMF and the IGP The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Extended Fund Facility has approved a fund to assist Sri Lanka at this time of terrible economic crisis. While there are many things to talk about that issue, we wish at the very beginning to highlight what we think is the most important issue that should be brought to the notice of the people on this matter.  The IMF has strongly recommended, in fact, has made it…

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