The following document on Asia was presented to the 14th World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International, as background information. The congress convened in Berlin, Germany, from 27 to 31 July 2025. Delegates attended...
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A political reading of ‘Brotherless Night’
Published inTG -Jun 30, 2025 : https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/political-reading-brotherless-night No fiction is entirely removed from reality. But some works are written almost entirely based on real events and people. There should be a new word...
War Looms Over Kashmir
Pakistan’s Defence Minister claimed on 29 April that India is likely to take military action, something that has the potential to escalate into an all-out war between these nuclear-armed countries. The recent tensions were provoked by...
Presidential Election – A shock result?
Though the establishment parties somehow survived the Aragalaya (The Struggle) in 2022, they were never able to win back the full trust of the masses. The ruling Rajapaksa family then stepped back from governmental...
The Left and the Presidential Election 2024
The United Socialist Party (USP), the Sri Lankan section of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), is contesting in the upcoming September 21st presidential election in Sri Lanka. Siritunga Jeyasuriya is running to...
Sri Lanka: Historic crimes of the chauvinistic left – Defending a Marxist position (parts 3 & 4)
Part 3 The struggle for far sighted Marxist position I was one of the boys in the car that made its way to the Palali airport in the middle of the night. The other...
Sri Lanka: Historic crimes of the chauvinistic Left (parts 1 & 2)
Part 1 – Indian military intervention and emergence of political confusion One evening in 1988, when encroaching darkness seemed momentarily halted, in the gentle embrace of the emerging moonlight, a car was driving towards...
What Causes Inflation?
Sept 4- 2023 “We understand better now how little we understand about inflation,”[i] commented Jerome Powell, Chair of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed), when inflation reached its highest level since the late 1970s in...
Sri Lanka: One year since the uprising. A contribution to the ongoing debate on the way forward-part3
Part 3 -July 14- 2023 * A weakness of the Galle Face declaration is its calls for the existing parliament to reform itself by changing the way it operates, abolition of the presidency, and...
Sri Lanka: One year since the uprising. A contribution to the ongoing debate on the way forward-Part2
July 12 -2023 The current regime lacks any viable economic solution other than perpetuating further suffering among the broader population. Their economic survival hinges on the continuation of this brutal suffering for the masses,...