A WIN discussion November 2024. Follow the meeting HERE. Following its historic triumph in last month’s presidential election, a party which had previously led two bloody failed insurrections has now in a snap general election won an unprecedented parliamentary majority. From just three seats in the previous parliament, the NPP (formerly the JVP) has achieved a sweeping landslide victory, winning … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2024
YOUTH UPRISING IN BANGLADESH
A WIN discussion, November 2024. Listen to the discussion HERE. In July Bangladesh was rocked by a colossal youth uprising in protest at mass unemployment. Hundreds of young people were brutally mown down by the security forces, but an entire heroic generation stood firm. The government was overthrown and the autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina fled the country. What has replaced the deposed … [Read more...]
Counter-revolution in Chile by Roger Silverman
We have passed the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup – an event that shocked worker activists the world over. The Junta surrounded mines and factories with tanks. Sickening descriptions were given by eye-witnesses of sadistic beatings and tortures. Tens of thousands were executed: summarily shot, bludgeoned, mutilated and tortured to death, or hurled into the sea from helicopters. Witnesses … [Read more...]
Lifting import ban on automobiles: Sri Lanka sleepwalks into disaster
by Dhanusha Pathirana Having saddled the nation with a disastrous International Sovereign Bond (ISB) restructuring that ballooned debt repayments by billions - see HERE - the Central Bank Governor (CBSL) now pushes for lifting the import ban on personal vehicles – a blatant kowtow to the IMF's imperial agenda. Two days after the Governor’s remarks National People’s Power (NPP) government … [Read more...]
Monarchy – By Finn Geaney
The multimillionaire scion of the super-wealthy, landowning Windsor family was 2 years ago accorded some powers over the Westminster Parliament and Government, powers that previously were exercised by other members of his family. This landed elite of privileged oligarchs have, over centuries, abrogated to themselves significant power over Britain’s elected parliament. The powers that Charles III … [Read more...]
FACTS FOR WORKING PEOPLE
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired, USA Facts For Working People: Opinion: The meaning of Trump’s victory Facts For Working People: The Democratic Party We Knew Is Over. Something Fresh Must Take Its Place. Facts For Working People: US election 2024: inflation, immigration and identity Facts For Working People: The Video US Government Doesn't Want You To … [Read more...]
IS THE USA AT A TURNING POINT?
Listen to the meeting HERE. At our WIN meeting on Sunday 10th November we discussed a question which has worldwide significance: the many implications of the US presidential elections. Has a definitive result been achieved? Will either candidate have gained a decisive victory, and will it be accepted by both parties? Should socialists have supported either candidate? Is it right to define Trump as … [Read more...]
Please support Marcia Kauatjitotje!
Marcia, a security officer and member of NAMIBIA SECURITY WORKERS UNION (NASWU), worked for Rossington Mines (a Chinese owned company), and has been in dispute with her employers since September 2023. She needs to raise N$ 19800.00 (about £800 UK sterling) to continue her campaign. Marcia was victimised and dismissed after she made complaints about safety in the workplace. She has been fighting … [Read more...]
Israel’s War on Palestine
A WIN discussion, November 2024. LISTEN TO THE DISCUSSION HERE Israel’s genocidal onslaught on the entire population of Gaza has outraged workers throughout the world. Now the war has spread to the West Bank, Lebanon and beyond, and threatens an all-out regional conflagration throughout the Middle East. How will this horrific war end? What will be its long-term repercussions? Will it … [Read more...]
Ilan Pappe – Israel is disintegrating
from Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired From 'Facts for Working People' Ilan Pappe talks of what the future holds for Israel as the US colonial proxy disintegrates under intense pressure from the Palestinian resistance and the worldwide condemnation of its genocidal war. The Zionist Apartheid regime has already lost the war as it is in the process of bombing four countries at the … [Read more...]