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Why you should become a socialist?

By Raju Prabath Lankaloka Has it ever occurred to you that we have the brains to send a probe to Pluto, one of the most distant objects in our solar system, and even invent self-driving cars, and yet we are powerless to solve our everyday problems? How true is that? The wonders of modern science are truly amazing, but we can’t provide enough homes to stop people from being forced to live on the street or provide decent jobs for our young people. Do we have an issue with the resources we have or does the problem lies elsewhere? According…

The failure of reforms – The lessons from Brazil

(This article was originally written in march 2021) *The failure of reforms – The lessons from Brazil* Participation of left parties in bourgeoisie elections to bring about change in the lives of working class and poor people throughout the world is one of the most contested issues. It has been since the times of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels during the first International in the 1800s. Socialists and Social Democratic Parties in the Second International debated this issue as well, including the Bolshevik Party debating whether to participate in the Duma or not in 1906 and in 1910-1912. It has…

Workers’ Control is the Solution.

By Raju Prabath Lankaloka The ruling class, who have no answer to the disaster, to which they have dragged the people, are now bowing before the IMF and doing everything they can to fulfil its conditions. The statement made by the Governor of the Central Bank saying that the IMF conditions cannot be disclosed, as markets may be shaken if they are disclosed, indicates how harmful those conditions are to the country. Ms Samantha Power of the US State Department said that once the staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is signed as a complete agreement, Sri Lankans…