The Sri Lankan Left’s Long Road to Power – Socialist Project
The Sri Lankan Left’s Long Road to Power. International Relations • November 26, 2024 • Devaka Gunawardena and Ahilan Kadirgamar. The victory of the National People’s Power (NPP) candidate, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in the Sri Lankan presidential election represented a major shift in the South Asian state’s political trajectory.
Expanding the Possible: A Climate Change Strategy from Below?
Nov 24, 2024 · Less than one week after a self-proclaimed dictator, climate change denier, and big oil-funded billionaire (among other equally impressive accolades) took the single most powerful political office in the world, it seems like a horrible time to release a book about the Green New Deal (GND). Thinking back to 2018,…
Kagarlitsky: Don’t Include Me in Any Prisoner Exchange!
Nov 19, 2024 · Recently, discussions have intensified about another possible prisoner exchange. Which Russian political prisoners are being considered for exchanging with whom is still unclear, yet the debate on who should and should not be included in swap lists is well under way. I have stated several times, and I repeat now,…
Neoliberalism’s Plague: The Erosion of Conscience in Education
Dec 12, 2024 · For an informed read on neoliberalism, a few books will suffice. I suggest David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (London: Oxford University Press, 2005); Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2020), and Heather Gautney, The New Power Elite (New York; Oxford, 2023). Edward Said, “At the Rendezvous of Victory,” Culture and Resistance: Interviews with David ...
30 Jewish Organizations: We support UN Human Rights …
Nov 8, 2024 · As Jewish organizations and groups, we express our support for Francesca Albanese, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967. Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like 'UN Watch', which have been waging toxic smear…
Citing Genocide Convention, Seven Lawyers Launch Historic …
Nov 10, 2024 · In Ottawa, the Coalition for Canadian Accountability in Gaza discusses a recent court filing against Justice Minister Arif Virani. This action, led by the Legal Centre for Palestine and others, seeks to hold the Canadian government account for allegedly failing to uphold its international legal obligations as they relate to the ongoing violence in Gaza.
The Gaza Genocide and the Canadian Left – Socialist Project
Sep 27, 2024 · Four years ago, the Socialist Project published a pamphlet called Palestine and the COVID Crisis. In it, we published two authors from Gaza: Asmaa Tayeh and Sarah Algherbawi. We believe that both are alive at the time of this writing, but their lives have been altered in ways that –…
Socialist Project – The website for the Socialist Project, a socialist ...
Dec 16, 2024 · What is the Socialist Project? Committed to the development of a more free, democratic, humane and sustainable society than the one we live in, the SP is one of the many organizations building 21 st century socialism. Learn more about the Socialist Project »
Lock-Outs – Socialist Project
Dec 17, 2024 · In Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley wrote: “There are more ways to kill a cat than choking it with cream.” What he left unsaid is that, no matter how you do it, the cat is dead. There is a new epidemic in Canada. It is the use of the lock-out by…
My Departure From Peru – Socialist Project
Aug 6, 2024 · My name is Jan Lust. I was born in the Netherlands. I arrived in Peru in March 1999. I have lived here for more than 25 years. During this time, I have worked as a professor-researcher at different universities such as the Pacific University, the Pontifical Catholic University of …