September 2023 - Lanka Socialist Forum

05 Sep

The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

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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 countries. On 11 September 1973, reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet, left the barracks and overthrew the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity coalition. The military and other security forces began an assault on the…

03 Sep

Rule By Junta

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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 central to Western preoccupations. First it was migration, then terrorism, now Russia; indeed, all three together at this point. In 1999, after a coup in Niger, I remember receiving a letter from a German aid worker including a tiny newspaper clipping with a single paragraph…

02 Sep

YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS THE 28TH AUGUST ACTION AGAINST EPF/ETF THEFT

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The Young Lawyers’ Association invites all Professionals to support the 28th August, Action which Unions have called the ‘Day of Great Robbery’. Unions and workers have organized a day of protest on the 28th of August, questioning the Central Bank Governor and the Government of Sri Lanka on why the retirements savings the EPF/ETF accounts have been singled out and targeted under the guise of domestic debt restructuring (DDR) Economists warn us if the Domestic Debt Restructuring is carried through it will deplete the savings of individual account holders to nearly half its value in 16 years’ time. Economists further…

02 Sep

ASIA: The mind of Junious (A Parable)

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FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-011-2023August 29, 2023 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission ASIA: The mind of Junious (A Parable) This story is about Junious. Please do not think that I made a mistake in naming the hero and misspelling Junious for genius. I quite understand some people’s misunderstanding of that sort because an impression has been created and kept for a long time that Junious was in fact the genius. That is far from the truth. A Junious is rightly called Junious, as you will see when you read this story. The Junious was a practical “trickster”. And, being…