FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired, USA The issue Wolff raises here I think is basically correct. The end of the domination of US imperialism on a world scale is on the way. Gone is the period of the Best and the Brightest as Halbertam’s book was titled. Look at the decisions the US ruling class has made including and since the Vietnam War; Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and perhaps the … [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...]
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...]
Trump, the fascist Caligula of bloodshed and civil war!
by Yorgos Mitralias Is Trump a fascist? Obviously, say half (49%) of Americans, many of his ex-collaborators, and the overwhelming majority of his opponents, experts in fascism, and the US and international media. In short, the same people who, only yesterday, found this question shocking or inappropriate, and branded as simplistic those who dared to answer in the affirmative. We … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka’s ISB restructure – A debt trap backed by the IMF and Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
by Dhanusha Pathirana - Institute of Political Economy – Sri Lanka The apparent ‘Good News’ delivered by former President Ranil Wickremasinghe and Sri Lanka’s International Sovereign Bonds (ISB) holders in violation of the country’s election laws in September, is now been enshrined as the official position of the new Nation People’s Power (NPP) administration. The new President assumed power … [Read more...]
Political repression is ruining our lives – Support the movement to protect our freedom to protest!
For more than seven months, a retired head teacher, a dementia care advisor and a retired environmental health officer have been left waiting in limbo by the Metropolitan Police, desperately hoping to find out if they will face criminal charges instigated by an east London council following a town hall protest. In February 2024, the three socialist campaigners attended a fraught Newham council … [Read more...]
The student movement in Bangladesh: A torrent strong enough to make rivers shake!
By Omer Abdullah Khan (Asian Marxist Review) Like in other parts of the world, South Asia has also experienced significant social and political upheavals in recent years. This new wave of movements in the region began when Sri Lankan students and workers successfully ousted their corrupt and unpopular president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Since then, these movements have gradually spread across the … [Read more...]
Vladimir Putin: godfather and federator of the international far right!
By Yorgos Mitralias The subject of this article is not Putin the warmonger, nor Putin the invader of Ukraine. The subject of this article is Putin, the anti-democrat, the reactionary and the liberticide with increasingly fascist practices. So, after presenting the first pillar of the Brown International in gestation in the person of Israeli genocidaire Bibi Netanyahu, and awaiting the third … [Read more...]
Hindutva Faces a Major Setback in the Jammu Kashmir Elections
By Farooq Sulehria and Haris Qadeer Despite its malicious strategy of communal gerrymandering to win the Legislative Assembly elections in Indian-administered Jammu Kashmir (JK), the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was rejected by a thumping majority. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M)) candidate Yusuf Tarigami retained his seat for a fifth time, defeating a … [Read more...]
The New Janus of Sri Lanka: Revolution at the Gate? by Maya John
The recent presidential election has installed Anura Kumara Dissanayake (“AKD”) from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance as the new president of Sri Lanka. This victory is seen as a result of rising popular hostility towards mainstream parties and rogue dynasts. Consequently, we find that AKD garnered an overwhelming share of the votes from those same … [Read more...]