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Rajapaksas win super majority in Sri Lanka parliamentary poll SLPP secures nearly 60% of the vote; critics worry about consequences
Sri Lanka’s ruling party secured a two-thirds majority in the recent parliamentary election, Friday’s results showed, giving the Rajapaksa brothers the power they sought to amend the Constitution.
The Sri Lanka Podujana (...)Statement from Beirut (Lebanon): “We announce the beginning of the battle for liberation” Popular commemoration for the victims of the blast.
Justice for the victims, revenge from the regime.
The street is ours, and to the street we return.
We were all born on August 4, 2020, at six in the evening, in Ward 12. We were born, or rather, we all died and some of us came back to life, (...)Situating the Hong Kong left An interview with a Hong Kong leftist organizer on how to build power despite antagonisms with the mainstream movement and the right.
[(Interviewer’s note: The Hong Kong anti-extradition law movement, which lasted for more than a year, has seen a revival in recent days. Originally a protest (...)The ins and outs of grassroots worker organizing on the frontlines of Hong Kong’s uprising An organizer at the Sanitation Workers’ Union reflects on challenges in building working-class solidarity in the movement.
[(Interviewer’s note: Though blue-collar workers make up the majority of the city’s inhabitants, their role in the Hong Kong uprising has yet been recognized. Their (...)France: Macron wounded, but still eyeing austerity The second round of the French local elections, at the end of June, was bad news for president Emmanuel Macron, whose candidates did very poorly. In response, Macron switched prime ministers, replacing high-profile operator Edouard Philippe with an unknown right winger, Jean Castex, whose (...)
‘A queer cry for freedom’: Meet the LGBTQ Palestinians demanding liberation Hundreds of queer Palestinians protested last week following a tumultuous year for the community, which is forced to navigate between homophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.
It happened all at once, without any coordination. Suddenly, all 150 protesters were on the street — lesbians, gays, (...)Hong Kong: Where neoliberalism and authoritarianism meet Hong Kong is not just a neoliberal hellscape. It has also become the target of Beijing’s authoritarian-capitalist measures.
Imagine the worst blights of neoliberalist development in the West. Unaffordable rents. Extreme wealth disparity. Privatization of public space. Over 20% of the population (...)The Muhajir Exodus of 1920: Remembering the largest ‘voluntary’ migration from colonial India Out of the ongoing Khilafat Movement emerged the Hijrat of 1920, a mass exodus of Muslims of different classes from colonial India to Afghanistan. The migration of the Muhajirin (plural of Muhajir), or Indian Muslim refugees started in April and converged with Ramzan, the holy month of fasting (...)
Industrial Disasters: Lebanon’s corrupt capitalism behind Beirut blast An explosion at the Port of Beirut has devastated the city, killing more than 130 people and wounding thousands more. It is an enormous tragedy; a huge blow to a population already reeling from economic, political and health crises. Corruption and incompetence are to blame, but the truth is (...)
Thailand: Arnon Nampha arrested – Government escalates crackdown on peaceful protesters The arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Arnon Nampha and at least one student activist signals a dangerous escalation in the Thai government’s efforts to suppress a growing protest movement, said ARTICLE 19. The two individuals are among a group of activists sought by the police in (...)
India: Impacts of Covid-19 on Labour The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and ensuing lockdowns have severely affected the labour market. In India, the pandemic and the prolonged lockdowns have led to a reduction or complete loss of their livelihoods, which has disproportionately affected the migrants and the working poor. (...)
Books pulled from library shelves, songs banned...it’s the new normal in Hong Kong Beijing has lost its patience with the former colony. Its repression may ignite fresh civil society fury
Beijing’s assault on Hong Kong is unfolding at such a pace that the daily news has become a horror show of epic proportions. July began with the imposition of draconian national security (...)Bangladesh: Caste On The Streets: Dhaka’s Street Cleaners, Many Of Them Dalits, Faced A Grim Future Even Before The Pandemic Bangladesh confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 8 March 2020. In the span of a little over a hundred days, the number of positive cases crossed the 100,000 mark with more than 1300 dead. The country imposed a nationwide lockdown on 26 March and extended it several times. As the lockdown was (...)
Covid-19 : The world is spending nowhere near enough on a coronavirus vaccine – Far better to spend far too much CONSIDER THE following thought experiment. If you fail to eat a pizza within an hour, you will die from hunger. What do you do ? Most people would immediately order a pizza—and not just one Margherita, but lots of them, from several different parlours. In order to maximise the chances that at (...)
Behind Beirut explosion: the disaster was exceptional but events leading up to it were not – researchers At the time of writing at least 100 people have lost their lives and a further 4,000 have been wounded following an explosion in the Port of Beirut. While the actual cause remains uncertain, the tragedy calls to attention the tremendous consequences of a lack of port security.
The explosion, (...)Explosions at the Beirut port: Lebanon is no stranger to disaster – but this is like nothing we’ve ever seen Decades of stoic resistance in the face of tragedies has turned to rage after the devastating explosion in Beirut’s port.
Two days later, and we are still counting the dead, accounting for the living and digging for the buried alive.
Two days later, and every waking hour, every sleepless (...)Industrial disasters – Lebanon’s deadly blast : when corruption turned into carnage Since the massive explosion, the state has been absent, leaving people to fend for themselves – while leaders seem more concerned with dodging blame.
On 4 August 2020, at 6pm the explosion at the Beirut port sent a destructive shockwave across a radius of more than 7 kilometres. The explosion (...)Beijing repression forces Hong Kong opposition into new tactics Dissidents urge united stand against Chinese and look to eastern bloc tactics for inspiration
Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have responded to China’s crackdown on opposition politicians, student campaigners and tenured academics by considering tactics that would have seemed (...)USSR: Inquisition Mode Mexico city, 6 July 1946. Victor Serge had a year to live. He had spent the morning, as he sometimes did, with Trotsky’s widow, Natalia Sedova. They had been writing a joint memoir of Trotsky; in it Natalia recalls her husband pacing up and down in his study at Coyoacán, engaged in heated (...)
India – China Clash and its Impact on South Asian Countries As India is trying to manage the fallout from the first major border skirmish, since 1975, with China in which substantial number of troops were killed it would do well to assess its broader political and economic impact on the regional situation. Both China and India, with their growing (...)
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