A proud and a loud member of the working class, rank n file unionist living in Naarm the stolen aboriginal land.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined August 2018
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Workers and activists from Sri Lanka's tea producing highlands came to the capital to protest government plans to hand over land in plantations to private companies without solving the land and housing issue of Malaiyaga Tamils who have been living and toiling there for centuries
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On this day, 19 years ago, S. P. Thamilselvan was assassinated by Sri Lankan soldiers, flying Israeli jets.
Thamilselvan was the head of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). He would become the LTTE’s Chief Negotiator in peace talks.
On November 2, 2007, Sri Lanka’s military killed Thamilselvan - even before it officially withdrew from the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) in 2008.
Colombo murdered him and five others in an airstrike.
Some 25,000 people attended his funeral in Kilinochchi.
In the south, the killing was celebrated with firecrackers. Then defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw the genocide, warned that it was just the beginning.
வீரவணக்கம்.
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Put people before profit: vote socialist. We'll stand up to the major parties and the big corporate interests they serve, push back against the racism of One Nation, and fight to ensure everyone, no matter their circumstances, has what they need to live a dignified life.
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Eugene Debs—the socialist who won a million votes. Debs was a committed and radical socialist, and his life was dedicated to the struggle of workers. redflag.org.au/article/eugen…
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චෙම්මනි සමුහ මිනීවලේ සිරුරු වසංගතයකින් මළ අයගේ විය හැකි බවට මහාචාර්ය රාජ් සෝමදේවගේ අලුත්ම වාර්තාවෙන් මතුකරන සැකය ඔහුගේ මුල් වාර්තාවලට පරස්පර බව පෙන්වාදෙන ගජේන්ද්රකුමාර් පොන්නම්බලම් මන්ත්රීවරයා ජාත්යන්තර විමර්ශනයකින් තොරව දෙමළ ජනතාවට යුක්තිය ඉටු නොවන බවට එය මනා සාධකයක් බව පවසයි
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NEW REPORT: The Battle of Ananthapuram.
ITJP’s new report, available in English and Tamil, documents survivor accounts, examines the last major battle of the war and points to an alleged massacre of more than 300 severely wounded Tamil fighters by the Sri Lankan Army in April 2009. Around 800 LTTE cadres, many already seriously wounded, were trapped and cut off from ammunition, medical supplies, food and water. Approximately 150 escaped. Hundreds of wounded fighters left behind have never been seen again.
Read full report: itjpsl.com/reports/battle-of…
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Victoria pitches itself as the 'education state'. Yet our public schools are chronically underfunded - with facilities crumbling, class sizes ballooning and teachers at breaking point dealing with ever increasing workloads.
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“How the Office on Missing Persons is failing Sri Lanka’s disappeared” - Yasmin Sooka and Frances Harrison.
Read the full article in Human Southasian here: himalmag.com/disappearances-…
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Some pics from our launch of VS candidate Michal Kedem's campaign in the seat of Essendon on Friday evening. Thanks to everyone who made it along! ✊ ❤️
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On the tenth day of the protest in Colombo for the release of Galagodaaththe Gnanasara thero, Buddhist monks break camp following Sri Lanka's top monk quadruple warning that the protests risk damaging the 'supreme respect and dignity' of Buddhist monks locally & internationally.
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Sexist behaviour is contributing to the burn-out of teachers in a profession already facing shortages due to poor pay and unmanageable workloads. redflag.org.au/article/manos…
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Some pics (CREDIT: Tariq Hawari - Insta: tariqcreates) from last night's launch of VS candidate Kath Larkin's campaign in Northcote. Thanks to everyone who turned out! ✊❤️ 🙌
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'At Jaffna Customs office, books dealing with political subjects get singled out for scrutiny. The presence of words such as “war,” “military,” “gun,” “Tigers,” and “mass grave” is enough to detain a book.'
- A joint appeal by the Eelam Tamil writers. kirishanth.com/?p=3925
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Seventy years ago, Hungarian workers and students rose up against a brutal dictatorship and built organs of working-class democracy, giving future generations a chance to discover the essence of revolutionary politics. Read: 👇 redflag.org.au/article/hunga…
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Tamil victims urge court to reject latest report on Sri Lanka’s largest mass grave highlighting that ‘Professor Raj Somadeva has deliberately omitted the term “Mass Grave” from this interim report, whereas he has used the same terminology in all three of his previous reports’.
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Returning from Saudi Arabia as a Member of the legal team that travelled to appeal the death sentence on Sivarasa Anojan, opposition MP and President's Counsel @FaiszerM assures @ParliamentLK that the Sri Lankan worker will either 'get a lesser sentence or he will be deported'.
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Europe’s youth and workers in revolt
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A memorial event was held at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital to mark 39 years since the killing of 68 people including staff members by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) deployed in Sri Lanka's north and east.
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A joint press conference by writers, journalists & trade unionists is NOW in progress at Dr. NM Perera Centre in Colombo, calling on Sri Lankan authorities to respect the recent ruling made by @HRCSriLanka & release Tamil writer Theepachelvan's books seized by Sri Lanka Customs.
UPDATE: 1/2
On Monday (12), @HRCSriLanka issued a ruling that by detaining 2 books by Tamil author P. Theepachelvan, Sri Lanka Customs has violated "fundamental right to the freedom to enjoy &
promote his own culture" & ordered to "forthwith release all the copies."
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The 'nudity' of Sri Lanka Art Council members have been exposed for their lack of Tamil proficiency and failure to prove a publication's threat to national security by the @HRCSriLanka ruling to release @Theepachelvan's 2 books seized by customs, says Union leader Joseph Stalin.
