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29

Mar

By wisidagamage

English, Featured, Human & Democratic Rights

SRI LANKA: The proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill amounts to a parallel Constitution and a Criminal Procedure Code

March 29, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill amounts to a parallel Constitution and a Criminal Procedure Code Three major ‘strategies’ have been used in this draft bill on anti-terrorism 2023.which create very great confusion about the meaning of the contents of the proposed law and its implications. Three ‘strategies’ The first of these strategies is not to define the meaning of terrorism. The meaning of the key word of this document is thus kept wake so that many different and contradictory interpretations can be given in a way that could be…

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24

Mar

By wisidagamage

English, Human & Democratic Rights

SRI LANKA: The criteria for the selection of the new Inspector General of Police

March 20, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The criteria for the selection of the new Inspector General of Police The debate on who should be the next Inspector General of Police (IGP) is part of the public debate these days. The focus of this debate is more on who should be the ‘person’ rather than what is the expectation from the new IGP in terms of the challenges faced on the one hand concerning the rule of law system in Sri Lanka, and on the other, in terms of the challenges faced by the…

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24

Mar

By wisidagamage

English

A Year of War in Ukraine: When Putin’s Defeat Is Changing the World

La Marx International 4/3/2023 One year after the start of the War in Ukraine, the result is that the plans of the Putin regime have been defeated. There is not the slightest possibility that Putin can reverse this situation, the losses of Putin’s armies are enormous, both his regular forces and the mercenary forces of the Wagner Group. A political crisis of the regime of the invaders has opened with public disputes between the high commands of the army, while the people of Russia have turned their backs on the recruitments called by Putin, and the Russian Federation is slowly…

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08

Mar

By wisidagamage

English, Human & Democratic Rights

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

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 sexual and reproductive health related rights. Women and girls are…

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His Militancy Had No Match

The Life & Work Of Upali Cooray

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01

Mar

By wisidagamage

English, Human & Democratic Rights

SRI LANKA: AHRC condemns the murder of Nimal Amarasiri caused by misuse of teargas on peaceful protesters

March 01, 2023 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: AHRC condemns the murder of Nimal Amarasiri caused by misuse of teargas on peaceful protesters Mr. Nimal Amarasiri, a candidate in a local government election, was killed after a tear gas attack on 26th February while participating in a protest against the attempt to postpone the local government elections.  There was no justifiable grounds at all for the use of teargas against these protesters, who were merely exercising their rights as citizens of Sri Lanka. The use of teargas under these circumstances was unnecessary and illegal. The possibility…

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25

Feb

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

World Bank is no friend of working people or the planet

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 calls its Social Protection and Jobs strategy, in which it…

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06

Jan

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

A message from Wasantha to the people!

Dear Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, 2022 is over, and a new year has dawned. It is the 140th day that I have been in prison for labelling terrorists who committed economic crimes, killed people and maintained a murderous culture while the real terrorists were free. Not only me but there are also other people in prison who fought for a better society and demanded economic and political change. I know that even if many people are not imprisoned due to the repression of the government, they do not have the freedom to do their daily activities normally. We cannot remove…

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13

Dec

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

Capitalism—Red in tooth and claw

Written by Tommy McKearney on 7th November 2022 Originally From: https://socialistvoice.ie/2022/11/capitalism-red-in-tooth-and-claw/ There is a German word, schadenfreude, meaning to take pleasure from another’s misfortunes. Watching the convulsions wracking the British Conservative Party, this writer is surely not alone in experiencing a large degree of that same feeling. Not since the Suez crisis of 1956 has a British government found itself in such turmoil; never before has the Tory party been subjected to such self-inflicted ridicule. It could hardly be otherwise. Daily U-turning, Cabinet ministers sacked within weeks of taking office, the spectacle of physical-force, yes, physical-force Conservatism, employed to whip reluctant MPs through the parliamentary…

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12

Nov

By wisidagamage

English, Featured

THE PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION BY MARX IN 1852

THE PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION BY MARX IN 1852* “In 1907, Mehring, in the magazine Neue Zeit134 (Vol. XXV, 2, p. 164), published extracts from Marx’s letter to Weydemeyer dated March 5, 1852. This letter, among other things, contains the following remarkable observation:“And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic anatomy of classes. What I did that was new was to prove: (1) that…

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