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The need for more Left voices

The need for more Left voices
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Warm Red Carpet for PM Modi in the US

Warm Red Carpet for PM Modi in the US
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Fighting in Sri Lanka: Protect Civilians to Facilitate Long-term Peace

The Sri Lankan army's recent military success against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is being diminished byinternational concern over the deteriorating human rights situationsurrounding the fighting.

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Be honest with people, this once

The Minister of Finance has repeatedly told the public that the government would pay debts of the nation, owed to foreigners, and also maintain standards of living, both at the same time. Nobody can do that. Nobody can make an omelette without breaking an egg. In that degree it is a lie, no not even […]

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Origins and growth of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

By Jayantha Somasundaram The 50th anniversary of the first JVP insurrection falls today. The 1971 rebellion was the first armed uprising against the state in modern times. The JVP was the brainchild of Rohana Wijeweera. Born in 1943, at Hunandeniya, in the Matara District, his father was a supporter of the Communist Party of Ceylon (CPC). However, while studying medicine in Moscow, Wijeweera became critical of the Soviet Union, and, on his return, he joined the Communist Party (CP), which was Maoist. Not long after, in 1966, Wijeweera, along with his supporters, broke ranks with the CP to form their own movement, which would later become the JVP. Wijeweera had concluded that the agricultural labourer -̶ the rural proletariat -̶ was the largest and most important component of Sri Lanka’s working class, not the urban or plantation worker.

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