Over 30 organisations call on Govt. to withdraw clauses from proposed Amendments to the LDO Act
In a joint statement released by 32 organisations including Trade Unions, the Government has been called on to withdraw clauses
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“Marxist Philosophical Conversation” on February 22, at the Mahaweli Center!
Comrade Chamil Jayaneththi has organized a Philosophical conversation on the launch of two books, ‘Marxism in Time and Space’ written
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Education Reform Must Be Democratic, Transparent, and People-Led — Centering Women and Feminist Voices
Education in Sri Lanka is not a commodity to be governed by market efficiency; it is a hard-won public good,
Politics
Replacing capitalism – not with socialism, but with democracy?
Leading left economists Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis jointly wrote an article for the British newspaper, the Guardian this week.
International
PORTO ALEGRE DECLARATION: UNITY AGAINST FASCISM AND FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF PEOPLES
Gathered in Porto Alegre — a city that symbolizes international struggles and holds important democratic traditions and aspirations — thousands
WAR IN UKRAINE, NATO, imperialism, and the war!
TUESDAY 15 MARCH 2022, BY PHIL HEARSE Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine seems to have caused some disorientation on the Left.
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Ecological Agriculture is a Political Question’
The government’s overnight ban on the import of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, and weedicides, to make Sri Lanka’s agriculture “100 percent
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Our comrade Alain Krivine is dead, his fights continue
Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA) Our comrade Alain Krivine left us today, at the age of 80. We, the comrades
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Notes to the People: Russia, Ukraine and NATO
It is appropriate to begin this week’s column with a quote from Vijay Prasad of Tricontinental Institute for Social Research:
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Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Bill Leads to Public Uproar.
A major fuss has arisen over Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Bill, to be taken up for the 2nd reading in
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War in Ukraine: ten lessons from Syria
In the following text, a collective of Syrian exiles and their comrades think through how their experiences in the Syrian Revolution can
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Rethinking Sri Lanka’s economic crisis!
Interview with Ahilan Kadirgamar on Sri Lanka’s political economy in a time of great crisis. Photo: Dhammika Heenpella / Flickr
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8 March of struggle for women’s lives and for equality in the production of life!
Each year, International Women’s Day is an important moment in giving visibility to feminist struggles against patriarchal capitalism, in its
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The mediation of the Western powers definitely is for the exploitation of Ukraine’s economy.
Putin started by justifying his invasion on the grounds of defence of the right of the peoples of Donetsk and
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