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        • Internet, Hacktivism (Movements, World)
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        • Movements: European Social Forum
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    • Americas
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      • Canada & Quebec
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        • Far Right / Extreme Right (Canada, Quebec)
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        • Health (Canada & Québec)
          • Pandemics, epidemics (Health, Canada & Québec)
        • Indigenous People (Canada & Quebec)
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          • Biographes (Left, Canada, Quebec)
      • Caribbean
      • Chile
        • Women (Chile)
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        • History (Chile)
        • LGBT+ (Chile)
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      • Colombia
        • Women (Colombia)
          • Reproductive Rights (Columbia)
        • Pandemics, epidemics (Colombia, Health)
      • Costa Rica
      • Cuba
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        • Ecology (Cuba)
        • Epidemics / Pandemics (health, Cuba)
        • History (Cuba)
          • Che Guevara
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          • Cuban Revolution (History)
        • LGBT+ (Cuba)
      • Ecuador
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        • Ecology (Ecuador)
        • Humanitarian Disasters (Ecuador)
      • El Salvador
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        • El Salvador: Salvadorian Revolution and Counter-Revolution
      • Grenada
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      • Guiana
      • Haiti
        • Women (Haiti)
        • Haiti: History
        • Haiti: Natural Disasters
      • Honduras
        • Women (Honduras)
        • Honduras: History
        • Honduras: LGBT+
      • Mexico
        • Women (Mexico)
        • Disasters (Mexico)
        • Epidemics / Pandemics (health, Mexico)
        • History of people struggles (Mexico)
        • The Left (Mexico)
      • Nicaragua
        • Women (Nicaragua)
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        • Nicaragua: Nicaraguan Revolution
      • Paraguay
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      • Peru
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      • Uruguay
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      • USA
        • Women (USA)
          • History (Feminism, USA)
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          • Violence (women, USA)
        • Disasters (USA)
        • Far Right, Religious Right (USA)
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        • On the Left (USA)
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          • History: SWP and before (USA)
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          • The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
          • Biographies, History (Left, USA)
            • C.L.R. James
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        • Secularity, religion & politics
        • Social Struggles, labor (USA)
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      • Venezuela
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        • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Venezuela)
    • Asia
      • Disasters (Asia)
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      • History
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      • Asia (Central, ex-USSR)
        • Kazakhstan
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      • Asia (East & North-East)
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        • LGBT+ (South Asia)
        • Religious fundamentalism
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      • Asia (Southeast, ASEAN)
        • Health (South East Asia, ASEAN)
          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))
      • Asia economy & social
        • Epidemics / Pandemics (health, Asia)
      • Economy & Labour (Asia)
      • On the Left (Asia)
      • Afghanistan
        • Women, patriarchy, sharia (Afghanistan)
        • History, society (Afghanistan)
        • On the Left (Afghanistan)
      • Bangladesh
        • Health (Bangladesh)
          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Bangladesh)
        • Ecological Disasters, climate (Bangladesh)
        • Fundamentalism & secularism (Bangladesh)
        • The Left (Bangladesh)
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        • Economy (Bangladesh)
        • History (Bangladesh)
        • Human Rights (Bangladesh)
        • Indigenous People (Bangladesh)
        • Labour (Bangladesh)
          • Industrial Disasters (Bangladesh)
        • LGBT+ (Bangladesh)
        • Nuclear (Bangladesh)
        • Rohingya (refugee, Bangladesh)
        • Rural & Fisherfolk (Bangladesh)
      • Bhutan
        • LGT+ (Bhutan)
      • Brunei
        • Women, LGBT+, Sharia, (Brunei)
      • Burma / Myanmar
        • Arakan / Rakine (Burma)
          • Rohingyas (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Buddhism / Sanga
        • CSOs (Burma / Mynamar)
        • Health (Burma / Myanmar)
          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Burma/Myanmar)
        • History (Burma/Myanmar)
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        • Labor (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Migrants (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Natural Disasters (Burma/Myanmar)
        • Women (Burma/Myanmar)
      • Cambodia
        • Women (Cambodia)
        • Epidemics / Pandemics (health, Cambodia)
        • History (Cambodia)
          • The Khmers rouges (Cambodia)
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      • China (PRC)
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          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, China)
        • Political situation (China)
        • China Today
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          • China and Russia
          • China § Asia-Pacific
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          • China, Korea, & North-East Asia
          • Military expansion (China)
          • Silk Roads/OBOR/BRICS (China)
          • World Economy (China)
        • On the Left (China)
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        • Civil Society (China)
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        • History (China)
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            • Beijing Summer Olympic Games 2008
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            • History: Transition to capitalism (China)
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          • Beijing Olympic Games
      • China: Hong Kong SAR
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      • China: Macao SAR
      • East Timor
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      • India
        • Political situation (India)
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        • Economy & Globalisation (India)
        • Energy, nuclear (India)
        • History (up to 1947) (India)
          • Baghat Singh (India)
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        • History after 1947 (India)
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      • Indonesia & West Papua
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        • Papua (Indonesia)
          • Pandemics, epidemics (health, West Papua)
        • The Left (Indonesia)
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        • Fundamentalism, sharia, religion (Indonesia)
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        • Indonesia / East Timor News Digests DISCONTINUED
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      • Japan
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          • Epidemics, pandemics (health, Japan)
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        • Military, Nuclear weapon (Japan)
        • Tokyo Olympics
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      • Kashmir (India, Pakistan)
        • Kashmir: Pakistan
        • Kashmir: K&J, India
      • Korea
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        • Korean Crisis (Geopolitics)
        • North Korea
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        • South Korea
          • Epidemics (health, South Korea)
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          • Free Trade, FTA & WTO (South Korea)
          • Labor & co. (South Korea)
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  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Gnanamuttu Kusumawathi: Leader of the Panama Pattuwa Land Struggle

    30 December 2022, by GUNAWARDANA Samanthi J. , PADMASIRI Buddhima

    Gnanamuttu Kusumawathi, known as Kusuma akka, passed away five years ago. We remember her rebellious spirit and strength with admiration and gratitude. Kusuma akka was a leader in the Panama Pattuwa (Pattuwa refers to an identified area of land in Sinhala) land struggle from August 2010 until (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: The seismic impact of the econo-humanitarian crisis

    20 October 2022, by CHAMARA Sumudu

    Red Cross’s 11-district survey reveals broad-ranging domino effects of the crisis on all social strata
    A survey conducted across 11 districts of Sri Lanka has revealed that around 96% of people who were interviewed have been affected by the prevailing economic crisis in some material way, with (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Oceans silenced, communities whipped: Energy crisis on fisheries

    9 October 2022, by AMARASINGHE Oscar, PIYASIRI Kaumi

    The energy crisis has hit both the producers and consumers of fish with a monstrous force. Fishers are out of sea: no fishing, no fish and no income!! Fish prices have reached unbelievingly high levels, some exceeding even Rs. 3,000/kg mark. Many families have neither physical nor economic (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Challenges to food security: Seed, fertiliser scarcity worsen farmer woes

    14 August 2022, by DULLEWE Maneesha

    Shortages of required seeds and fertilisers are resulting in poor yields for vegetable and paddy farmers, despite steps being taken to assuage the crisis.
    The lack of seeds and fertiliser risk negatively affecting future harvesting cycles and leading to long-term impacts for the country’s (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Fishermen’s fate decided by economic storm

    18 July 2022, by FRANCISCO Dinuli

    They set out daily and supply the Fish needed for daily consumption. Therefore the most impacted are the boat owners operating their vessels running on kerosene oil
    Mirissa used to be a vibrant, bustling town on the Southern Coast with a reputation as a tourist hotspot. Its decline began with (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Indian fishermen back again and ‘crushing’ our livelihoods, say Sri Lankan counterparts

    30 June 2022, by SRINIVASAN Meera

    Northern Tamil fishermen seek meeting with TN CM M.K. Stalin to discuss a “permanent solution”
    Just after Tamil Nadu’s annual fishing ban ended mid-June, Indian fishing trawlers are back near Sri Lanka’s northern coast, “crushing” fishermen’s livelihoods that are already under enormous strain during (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Fishing without gas-guzzling

    27 June 2022, by AMARASINGHE Oscar

    The present economic crisis, and the associated energy crisis, has mightily affected the fisheries sector, reducing the number of boats at sea, dwindling market supply, soaring fish prices, all affecting food and nutritional security of the people in Sri Lanka. Being a highly fuel-dependent (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Immediate and short-term interventions proposed to mitigate impact of current economic crisis on food and nutritional security

    23 June 2022, by Collective / Multiple signers

    Agriculture currently occupies around 40% of the land and consumes over 80% of the fresh water resources of the country. There are about two million farmers, who account for 25% of the workforce of the country; yet, they contribute only around 6% of the GDP, which shows the low productivity of (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Starvation stares in the faces of their daughters and sons

    19 June 2022, by HETTIARACHCHI Kumudini

    The children are starving!
    If remote Salalihini-gama close to Bogaswewa, about 22km from Vavuniya town, is a ‘microcosm’ reflecting Sri Lanka’s tragedy as it falls deeper into an economic morass exacerbated by a food and fuel crisis, it is obvious that the country’s children are starving. (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Regional ‘GotaGoGamas’ mark 50 days as new sites crop up

    6 June 2022, by The Sunday Morning

    The “GotaGoGama” protest site in Kandy entered its 50th day yesterday (5), the “GotaGoGama” protest sites in Galle and Matara marked 50 days of protests last Saturday (4), and the Anuradhapura protest site marked its 50th day last Wednesday (1), while new “GotaGoGama” protest sites have emerged in (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: The Rajapaksa sheen fades in stronghold Hambantota

    31 May 2022, by SRINIVASAN Meera

    Faced with shortages and power cuts, citizens have taken to the streets, primarily targeting the Rajapaksa clan
    Paddy farmer S.D. Weerawansa has made a livelihood decision and a political pledge in recent weeks — he will not sow in the coming season, and he will never back a Rajapaksa again. (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Economic crisis: A double whammy for the north east

    15 May 2022, by GUNASEKARA Skandha

    The north and east are twice as affected by the ongoing economic crisis due to the impact of the war, but private citizens are making an effort to assist as much as they can, The Sunday Morning learns.
    The 26 years of civil war ravaged the Northern and Eastern Provinces, with reconstruction (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Agriculture was a part of our culture, but now a cultural desert leaves fields bare

    15 May 2022, by HANDUWALA Indika

    Paddy farmers in poverty; next season maybe worse and many are switching to other crops
    President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) drew massive support from rural Sri Lanka at the last Presidential and general elections, with farmers making up the biggest voter (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Experts and expertise amid crisis

    7 May 2022, by JAYASINGHE Pasan

    “Whose expertise counts?” is the question that underruns current discourse on addressing Sri Lanka’s ever spiralling economic crisis. For much of the country’s intellectual establishment—its academics, policymakers, think tanks, civil society organisations and so on—the resounding answer to this (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Fertiliser shortages: Farmers turning away from cultivation

    25 April 2022, by MUDUGAMUWA Maheesha

    Paddy farming may drop to 20% in upcoming Yala season Some farmers and growers plan to exit agro industry due to losses SL imports 1.2 million MT of chemical fertiliser annually 50 kg pack of urea now priced at Rs. 47,000-50,000
    Uncertainty is looming over the country’s food security, with (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Plantation sector wages: CWC to take Labour Department to task

    23 April 2022, by FERNANDO Asiri

    Labour Dept. slow to enforce law Enough penalties, bring errant planters to book: Thondaman
    The Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC) is seeking legal advice to explore the possibility of taking legal action against the Labour Department for failing to enforce a gazette issued last year regarding the (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: MONLAR: Agriculture output has dropped by between 30 and 50 percent

    22 April 2022, by KURUWITA Rathindra

    There had been a 30%- 50% drop in the country’s agricultural output, Chinthaka Rajapakshe, Convener of the Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) told The Island yesterday.
    “The farmers, like almost everyone else in this country, are uncertain of their future and they have only sold (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    ‘It will be hard to find a farmer left’: Sri Lanka reels from rash fertiliser ban

    20 April 2022, by ELLIS-PETERSEN Hannah

    Harvests have collapsed, and the way President Rajapaksa introduced the policy angered even organic farmers
    Driving through the verdant landscape of Rajanganaya, a rural district in north Sri Lanka where the hibiscus flowers pop out of rich green foliage and the mango trees are already (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Bitter sugar produced from our labour in our lands

    9 April 2022, by MUNASINGHE Vidura Prabath

    People in Rideemaliyadda-Dehigama area in the Badulla District are deeply worried about the Government’s plans to allocate nearly 65,000 acres of land for sugarcane cultivation in that area. As part of the protest campaign organised against this action, a mass protest was organised in Bibila on (...)

  • Rural (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka: Mass-scale dispossession feared; new Bill permits grant land mortgage without state oversight

    20 March 2022, by WIJEDASA Namini

    A legal amendment that allows rural families to mortgage grant lands without State oversight will lead to mass-scale dispossession, with properties everywhere being seized by financial institutions when their impoverished owners are unable to pay their dues, community organisations have (...)

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