by René Rojas Sep 29, 2023 Amandla 89, International FIFTY YEARS AGO, CHILE’S ROAD TO socialism suffered a devastating defeat. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, spurred by elites, condoned by middle-class sectors and backed by Washington, toppled Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular (Popular Unity, UP). This was a vibrant coalition government helmed by the…
The West no longer World leaders in 84% of critical technologies
By Prabir Purkayastha (Posted Mar 18, 2023) Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 12, 2023 (more by Peoples Democracy) | I MET Prof Thomas Kailath seven years back in Delhi, where he talked about how India was on par if not leading, with countries like China in science and technology in the 90s but falling…
SRI LANKA: If Tocqueville was to read our proposed Anti-Terrorism Act
FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-013-2023October 06, 2023 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: If Tocqueville was to read our proposed Anti-Terrorism Act By Basil Fernando Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville is the famous author of the book Democracy in America. It is one of the world’s best known writings which have…
GOING BEYOND FAILED LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM
by Mazibuko Jara Oct 2, 2023 Amandla 89, COLONIALISM, APARTHEID AND neoliberalism remain foundational in shaping the inherited dualistic, unequal and racially divided land and agrarian structure. And we still have that same structure some 29 years into South Africa’s democratic dispensation. At the heart of this structure is the domination of the food system…
Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy
By Prabir Purkayastha (Posted Sep 16, 2023) Originally published: NewsClick.in on September 9, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in) The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell—had ended with the…
‘Political Education in Soviet Russia’ by Nikolai Lenin from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 4 No. 18. April 30, 1921.
The speech by Lenin at the All-Russian Conference for Organizations for Political Education delivered on November 5, 1920. ‘Political Education in Soviet Russia’ by Nikolai Lenin from Soviet Russia (New York). Vol. 4 No. 18. April 30, 1921. Comrades! Permit me to impart a few thoughts to you that occurred to me in the Central…
Sri Lanka – YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION DEMAND AN IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE RESIGNATION OF THE MAGISTRATE OF MULLAITEEVU !
The jurisdiction of the Mullaiteevu Magistrate has become a place of contentious judicial, legal and political battle ground due to the Kurunthur Malai incident and the excavation of a mass grave consisting of what appears to be the remains of LTTE carders. The Mullaiteevu Magistrate’s Office has come under direct threat from Member of Parliament…
Ceylon’s ‘Great Hartal’ of 1953: The Masses Enter History
Essay by B. Skanthakumar “It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the class struggle had yet reached in Ceylon”[i] 70 years ago this month, on 12 August 1953, “a demonstration of the tremendous power of the masses in action”[ii] influenced by Left parties and trade unions, shook…
The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973
Republished From: https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-68-the-coup-against-the-third-world-chile-1973/ In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the 11 September coup against Chile’s Popular Unity government, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the Instituto de Ciencias Alejandro Lipschutz Centro de Pensamiento e Investigación Social y Política release a new dossier analysing the coup and its effects on the Third World and non-aligned…
Rule By Junta
Rahmane Idrissa 07 August 2023 Politics It’s typical of the West that it manages to make other people’s problems its own. In the Sahel, it may have some excuse. This highly peripheral region, which, until about a decade ago, was a concern only for humanitarians and the lesser departments of aid organizations, has quickly become…