For you it is with pride

Vacancies are there for Juki machine operators…
Vacancies are there for miss Sri Lanka 2008 pageant
Vacancies are there for the Middle East servants
Vacancies are there if you are the degree completed

During seasons... yes the vacancies are there,
for Parliament Members
and vacancies are there for the well educated
Vacancies are there if you are CIMA completed
Vacancies are there my beloved…
for suicide carders

From tongues to belly buttons,
there’s the demand for body pierces
Pierce them while you are steady and free of tweezers
Not only when you are in the beauty parlor
They pierced those bones…
of Jesus Christ my beloved
and laid him to waste in the Church of body piercing paupers

Pierce them bodies with bullets and human rights
Pierce them flesh if they are found guilty
of love undying…
Play them drums like guitar ‘n fingers
and pierce them heart with words my dearest
Pierce them not only when you are inside the beauty parlor

Vacancies are there if you are good with drug dealers
Vacancies are there if you want to become God’s apostle
Vacancies are there, my holiest my dearest…
you always wanted to become, that Buddha’s disciple

Lets go on a picnic shall we…between those Forward Defense Lines
How about a party in between…? After all they are just two lines…

Have you passed G.C.E o levels…?
if not never you should mind
Still under 16..?
Yes
That would be fine
We need some broilers… 50, 000 of them to fill not a few bunkers
and bodies to feed the Raymond’s furniture, newly completed
One Sri Lanka my love...
but my handsome little soldier
Your culture is bad, how agricultural you are, the potato grower
No this vacancy is not mine
For you it is with pride

‘A Short Story’ – Fetishism of War in Neo Ceylon

“Right is on the side of might.
Legal phrases are on the side of impotence.” 1

Rays of fire, glow on thick red facades… like a ruby in Adam’s ale placed on the plinth of damned Earth… Sun sends its tears with mixed feelings, a split in the sky paves its way on to the fourth world; them tears mingle with meadows of warm red, its tears dance above them dark crimson flowing so slowly on the long standing high ways of Colombo, joining its way in the neighborhood of Kandy. It was broadcasted live as well as edited, via print and electronic drawings. This is territorial blood which is spilling not that of any species. Media paints its territorial images on the Sinhalese heads. Blood of the Northern Tamils are out on a limb; nor do they flow on the streets of Colombo. For the Sinhalese, neither were they spilled in Killinochchi by the Sinhalese State murdering twenty nine people, few days before the balancing effect triggered in Colombo and Kandy, and buried its cause on the television sets of Southern mass…

Four months above we were stressing nothing but on this single phrase written nearly a century ago by a revolutionary, shot to death by the German State. In 1915 she said, ‘When my neighbor’s home burns, my own is in danger…’2 Are we not feeding on our own limbs, drawing blood with best of intentions…? Is it true that the way to Hell is paved with nothing but good intentions…?3 Yes or No..? Upon this plain inquiry, the great pearl of the Indian Ocean shall split its crust in to two halves which are nothing but hostile to the other. We have to remind what we had to say few months ago and how those positions have intensified themselves on the Sri Lankan political veneer with some more unforeseen changes.

We wrote: ‘The political solution to the conflict has walked hand in hand from the military barracks, and resided on the banks of the public life. The cause of this is non other than this; the Southern petty-bourgeois and the peasantry have become ‘the outer protective shell’ of the Sinhalese State, therefore they have become a politico-ideological force superseding its epicenter of political will, the state. In North, the oppressed mass has no milder bearings, it equals itself with the LTTE’s regime. This short phase of infinite murder means that politics of war has withdrawn itself from the battlefield between the defense lines of the Government Forces and the LTTE, and deposited itself in the more luxurious political accounts of the general public. The final solution will be written with public’s blood, on the streets and highways of South and on the jungle roads of the North.’3 The number of Government soldiers or the LTTE carders nor the amount of civilians murdered in the North and East in the midst of fierce battle shall in any way alter or affect the final solution of the conflict nor it shall bring about any general political changes in the country. But the murder of the non-soldiers, i.e. the systematic murder of the civilians in the South by the LTTE shall lead to a major political transformation which is fundamentally twofold (the particular incidents as such, bear the power to dismantle and about ship the general whole);

1. It shall ultimately decide the general militaristic strategy implemented by both sides. The public sphere have to be more militaristically concentrated; it requires further planning, shifts in resources –soldiers and ammunition- and absolute increases in the military spending. Moreover this whole set up shall give the military an autonomous existence, an absolute power over and above everything that formerly existed over and above the latter. The cabinet approval for the establishment of six separate bodies to monitor and implement military strategies for the purpose of maintaining public security is a material manifestation of this argument.

2. It shall speed up the process of settling in to a final solution for the conflict as more and more civilians are murdered in South. Therefore the frequency of the murder of the civilians of the South, rather than the soldiers, and the North and East civilians themselves, is directly proportional with the hastening of the political settlements. This notion reveals us two further important points.

First, that no matter how brutal these attacks may appear to the public, these attacks resemble a positive drive towards an end, if only they are focused upon the masses of the Western Province (who fundamentally occupy a parasitic existence in relation with other more rural provinces) and the masses dwelling in the remaining cities of the country (e.g.: Kandy, Galle, Kalutara etc) who have become the outer protective shell of the State, the idea is to destroy in to sand this exact shell.

Second, the irrelevant nature of death of a soldier, politically as well as militaristically, reveals the nature of the function bestowed by the civil society to the children in arms. They are the direct opposite of civilization, the machines mutilated out of man flesh to guard the same civilization who begot them with pride, from whose bowels they see the light of day; the night has certainly conquered the sun with its thick immovable shadow, appear as if it is sown on to their mechanic flesh with threads of steal, the chains are here to stay, till the end. In to the pale day light we see. War is not perceived by the civil society as a continuation and an extension of a certain form of a social relationship with a definite ideological content, but, it is absorbed as an object existing outside them, therefore as a thing which can be demolished if certain objects are demolished forever, the latter objects are analogues with the members of the LTTE, therefore war is perceived as a thing sitting out side them which is formed by the integration of thousands of separate pest-like objects. Never they perceive that social relationships which invariably possess a definite form with a specific ideological content can not be destroyed by means of war unless they become obsolete in relation to the general whole. This ‘false consciousness’ we would call the Fetishism of war in Ceylon. This fact can be clearly seen by the nature of media coverage given to the war… where the television viewers are transformed in to an audience who are made to enjoy the action and all the thrills of war nor less than an action movie; all this make us remind the film ‘Thrill Seekers’ (telecasted more than twice on ETV) where agents from the future are sent in to the past to execute specific large scale human disasters, which are then broadcasted live for the audience sitting in front of television sets in the realm of the future, the audience of the future spend their wealth to watch the men of the past slain in herds.

The Epilogue of the East – February, 1948 and May ‘08

The declaration of independence and sovereignty of Ceylon in 1948 by the British colonizers and the restoration of freedom and democracy in the Eastern province by the Government of Sri Lanka in May 2008 resemble developments as well as analogies when the two incidents are measured while placing them in the same dimension.

The declaration of independence in 1948 contains two main aspects which would be worth mentioning on this regard.

a. the transformation of the colonial state, Ceylon, in to a neo-colony which is politically as well as economically dependent on the metropolitan center of the capitalist system; the investment patterns and political measures implemented in the dependent country is largely dominated by the interests and motives of the metropolitan economy.

b. the political power of Ceylon was bestowed to the comprador bourgeois class who were perfect class allies of the metropolitan center. By the time of the declaration of the independence in 1948 various mass movements were mobilized mostly by the leftists politicians and trade unions against the entire apparatus of the declaration of independence and there was a state of political unrest during that period in Ceylon. But the absenteeism of an armed insurrection against the system of rule made it possible to saturate the ill political and economic nuances in to the public sphere without much resistance by the masses and therefore a general settlement over the matter was made.

We perceive the restoration of freedom and democracy in the Eastern province in comparison with the above two points respectively.

a. Democracy and freedom to the East is quite analogues with the declaration of the independence by the British colonizers to the Ceylon. In the same way that transformed the colonial state of Ceylon in to a mere neocolonial atoll, the Sri Lankan Government shall ‘reorganize’ the system of control to a such a degree that the Eastern administration is politically as well as economically dependent on the Sinhala Government. Therefore there is an overall overlapping of the point a. of the former and the point a. of the latter.

b. the political power of the East is not bestowed to a comprador bourgeois class as such it was done in 1948 by the British, but is dealt out among three major armed factions; the break away faction of the LTTE, the Jihad movement of the Muslims and the Sinhalese Government. Therefore this is a further development of the situation which existed in 1948; a spiral movement of the proceedings of power is evident herewith. The antagonistic relationship which is evident in the East, between the Muslims and the Eastern Tamils and between the latter two factions and the Sinhalese state and also a possible re-intervention of the LTTE among the ranks of the Eastern shell with the aid of Muslim Jihad movement and the breakaway party of the LTTE shall recreate the Eastern soil in to a state of political unsavory. The East will turn out to be a major military blockade far more extensive than when it was under the control of the LTTE.

The fact that the LTTE is having firm links with the Muslim armed movement in the East is unmistakable; the TNA parliamentarian who was murdered few months ago in Mannar was replaced by a Muslim representative, a clear sign of the political and further military unification with the Muslim armed movement despite the treacherous incidents which took place in the early 1990’s between the two races. Further more, the LTTE shall not enter in to a peace deal with the Southern Government unless 2002 Memorandum of Understanding is re-initiated, which is impossible on behalf of the government since it would mean the evacuation of its armed forces from the North as well as from the East. Therefore on LTTE’s behalf, they made a serious error in 2005 November presidential elections when they chose to block the votes of the North East Tamils, which led the way to the SLFP to overthrow the rule of the United National Party and wage a devastating war against the North East. The LTTE have partially dug their own grave by this severe mistake, they did not foresee nor did they predict that an iron military fist led by Ghothabhaya and Basil Rajapakse is following behind the path of the SLFP.

A Possible Military Coup in the South

In January 2008 we wrote: ‘If the Neoliberal state is facing the general period of declining capitalism and therefore grave economic crises, then what might replace it? What did the government and no less the Bush administration do when they faced the seven signs of Neoliberal chronic economic imbalances?

1. uncontrollable internal budgetary deficits
2. a balance of payment crisis
3. rapid currency depreciation
4. unstable valuation of internal assets
5. rising inflation
6. rising unemployment with falling wages
7. capital flight5

They stepped its gear in to the ‘war on terrorism’, the rise of militaristic means to handle chronic economic crises, in other words it is the emphasis on ‘Religious-Nationalism’ to justify and provoke public support on military acquisitions. This militarization of the public sphere has much to do with asserting domestic control over much divided body of politic. Fear and insecurity were all too easily and in this case successfully manipulated for the construction of power’6.

The current proceedings of Neo-Ceylon have extended its reach than we have observed nearly half a year ago; it is on the verge of developing itself unto its absolute phase. The signs are rearranged in a clear chain on this Great Chinese Wall with no difficulty in grasping the impending sediment. Yet the question which triggers in our mind is ‘are we prepared enough to bring them walls of steel unto the depths of the metal ore..?

What do we comprehend by witnessing journalists being brutalised and hacked to death each hour…? What do we interpret when Poddala Jayantha and Sanath Balasooriya the two journalists who are leaders in the trade union movement of the media workers were verbally threatened by the Defense Secretary, the loyal brother to his Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapakse at his official premise..? What do we perceive when even the protests organized by the major opposition parties the United National Party and the Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna against the rising economic crisis and State led corruption being stroked off with metal sticks and batons by the police and the under world carder (although we know that latter two parties are no more than the false representatives of mere merchants and the petty middle strata in that order.)…? The state is chopping the limbs and lengthy tongues of each and everything which bars its path to retain its supreme power, over and everything on this polluted soil. It is using non other than that sword which is fixed on to the palm of the grand lion…

We are fervent to tell you that the present government under the leadership of the Defense Secretary Ghothabhaya Rajapakse is heading full speed towards a military coup if the political and economic unrest intensifies… What shall be the ultimate result of this coming..? The full scale saturation and absorption of the main opposition in to the ranks of the military government is unmistakably presupposed. The saturation process will come about as armed forces will constantly be preoccupied on the opposition whenever they make sound the alarm bell and the absorption process will be carried out by sucking up members of the opposition in to the ranks of the government… a perfect harmony of the opposites, a functioning unity of absorption and saturation shall be witnessed in the near future.

The most perfect example and the correct political path was given to the revolutionary movement all over the world by the Maoists comrades of Nepal. The positive aspect of this impending military coup by the government is that it shall show the masses the futility of the bourgeois opposition itself and shall paint the only viable path, the correct path towards the liberation of the down trodden humans and invariably the rest of the people as well, is non other than the waging of the armed struggle; and yes ‘a course of true love, never did run smooth…’7. ‘The CPN(Maoist) launched armed struggle on February 13, 1996, in opposition to comrades who urged that the time was not right, "objective" conditions did not exist, and that the electoral path should be pursued. But the leadership insisted that only by making a revolutionary break with pre-existing legality could the ordinary people learn their own strength. In the ten years of People's War a great number of young people of both sexes and all communities, including the most downtrodden, have made themselves into the seeds of the new civilization. Before the oppressed could even imagine defeating the regime in a free election it would be necessary to learn how to defeat its defense in armed struggle.8’

Note: A separate work shall be completed soon, focusing entirely on the specific form of the economic crisis experienced by the country.

References:

1. Marx. K, Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels Collected Works Volume 8. p?
2. Luxemburg .R, The Junius Pamphlet – The Crisis in the German Social Democracy. Third Sri Lankan Edition. pp 64
3. Marx. K, Capital Volume 1. p 105?
4. Southern Star Front (SSF), February – National Suicide in the South and North
5. Harvey. David, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. p?
6. SSF, January, The Darfur in the Indian Ocean
7. Quoted by Marx, in Grundrisse. p?
8. Nepal's Revolution: Armed Struggle Made Free and Fair Elections Possibleby Analytical Monthly Review 16/04/08

Fear of Love

Have you ever met Love under your own steam,
probably somewhere around the Western Province..?
Did you see her wander all alone in the Colombo District..?
I heard she got in to a bus from the Northern hemisphere
May be she is sitting right next to you,
on this bus, no matter where it’s heading
Hold her hand and whisper to her ears… when everything is silent like when no man is in tears
Never leave her alone with the tyrants they roam in this Province of fear

Love, she is an angel sent by God
Trying to send as many of us
In to the All Mighty’s arms
She is in love with the Province Western
Wanting to get married with, on the discussion table
The Ministry of Defense utters in fear
Love, she is wearing a suicider’s gears
Love, she is wearing C4 around her belly full of tears

We shiver in panic and play the dance of horror
Love, she will make flesh with C4 fire
Flesh is the uniform of legalized fear

They say love is a sacrifice, so she has sacrificed her fears
So Love she makes love in buses
Trying so hard to release us from our primal fear
Strip us naked from this official flesh we fear
Flesh is the Chinese Wall that keeps us aloof
from the words spoken with her

They say love is a sacrifice, so she has sacrificed her fears
So Love, she makes love in buses
Trying so hard to release us from our fear
Strip us naked from this official flesh we fear
With the innocent wish of meeting us in heaven
So then we shall speak to her with no whims of horror

Why bother with all these check points my dear..?
Let her make love with the vagabonds in fear
Let her liberate this mass throttling in terror

She will blow us straight in to the heavens
There we can nicely talk with her, with each other,
In heaven, there is no world’s fourth wonder

Get in to a bus from the Pettah station
Choose your own route how about 137
Make that wish come on ring it inside your head, “I shall meet her inside this beautiful bus like train”
The cogwheels might spin without the metal chains

The Farm

Out of this coma

Will you walk me with you my precious…?
Forgive me not, if you knows not how to murder false innocence
There is a place in them hearts
They breathe no green winds
They rain in Liquid Petroleum to replace the olive winds...
And why not my love…..?
Ain’t it so soft like a light blue stream…?
blind man never dares the poltergeist beings

Do you know,
the name of true love…?
Do you hear them DJs…
How they play it with tombs
and vowels hung from above…..?

So have you heard
the name of true love….?
The great old Bob Dylan sang the wildest old song
The answer he sang is ‘blowing in them winds’
But the answer my friend is not blowing in the wind

So did you find the name of true love…?
Here it is carved… on a shining Mercedes Benz, brand new and warm
And when you are down with your sleeves no one to hear you listen…
drowning in your backyard shores
porn... isn't it your religion and correct me if I’m wrong... you are wrong…

‘A drowning man is not troubled by rain’
Love of my name… is chaste insane
The deserts they ride on the cold glacier winds
Can three mighty banks…
Keep a river from drowning its own water streams……?

So the Americans they make the canoes of Dollar debt,
to keep us safe from the canoes of Dollar debt
They pull down the rope, to land on the moon with ease
Shall we fertilize its soil and start a newborns farm the great right-wing deal….?

Democracy for the Earth
so never them frogs, jump backwards when they are big….
war against war they silently scream….
Seek for W.M.Ds where the children merrily sleep, on rainbows with green horses, dancing over the seas…
And yes we are the empty sacks… that can not stand up on its rotten feet

Speak to me Mother…

Oh mom my sweet dear mom
Will you turn your ear to your baby’s little song….?
He is about to sing you sweet…, a little too long

Oh mother my mother my pretty looking mother
Who stamped you that name….?
What name…? Your name…
A deaf parrot would suit your game

Remember the days we walked together
You held my hand on the A9 path of fear
There were no hills upon that moon my dear
So the dam broke up so many years too sooner

Sri Lanka, you my mother, virgins we know never bear no children
So do you go to my fathersss’ lands…? Do they think of me when they can….?
Is it more bigger than my motherland…?
Mother my mother speak to me now when you can…
All the men were fond of your lusty curves…?
Tell me now…
Did they stimulate you inside the bunker caves…. and seduced your mind with check points and army caves….?
And did they all use Viagra, before you taste a slice of Adam’s apple….?
And didn’t you meet Eve as a precautionary measure …?
Sri Lanka my mother you are my landowner… Tell me now my DNA ladder …
Tell me now because I have the map of heaven and no they have no sewers...

Do they pay you enough for this burning summer…?
My mother are you sold out for a few dollars…?
Awurudu and Vesak fuel the engine more higher
Aren’t you sold out for a few more dollars…?

Oh mother my mother, my landlady cum mother, why are your lullabies sound so vulgar….?
Twenty million bastards you have thrown out of your caring slither
You lease them your minefields in those backyards for sure
Your home guards do the rest yes for sure

Allow me to draw your first blood my mother
Sri Lanka are you a masochist my mother…?
Lie down on this couch, don’t be afraid it floats on water
No visitor is allowed to see you answer

So tell me now my holiest mother…

Aren’t we the babies pouring out of those fathers’ sewers…?

The Graveyard of Populace..

The Tamils shall commit suicide
If Sinhalese are to be genocide
And the Madu Church must be saved
The Sinhalese shall commit suicide
If Tamils are to be genocide
And the Madu Church must be saved


They must commit suicide
If they are to be genocide
They must commit suicide
If they are to be genocide
And the graveyards must be saved


We must commit suicide
If we are to be genocide
We must commit suicide
If we are to be genocide
And the War must be saved


If we must commit suicide
if we are to be genocide
Then we shall guard our graves
and the House also must be saved


If we must commit suicide
if we are to be genocide
Then we shall guard our graves
and the House also must be saved


But the Muslims will criticize
If we shall commit suicide
Then we shall commit suicide
So our love will be saved
Our love will be saved
Love will be saved
Will be saved
Be saved
Saved.

Global Warming and Air-Conditioning..

(A bunch of kids, a group of girls and boys are mimicking each line once, exept the last four)

We should stop the global warming
So may I stop the globe from freezing..?

But shouldn’t we stop the global warming…?
Open the doors of our refrigerators
And shall we start cooling the atmospheric fever?
Shall we open the doors of our deep-freezers
And start cooling the media raiders…?

But we should stop the global warming
So we will stop the Earth from burning
So we air-condition the Vanni borders
We air-condition the Tamils from slaughter
We air-condition their schools and bunkers
Shall we air condition them children and toddlers…?

You know we need many air-conditioners
But we don’t craft these refrigerators
So Mohammad gives us deep freezers
And monks they ride with Broadway members

But we should stop the globe from warming
So we will stop the Earth from burning
So shall we start the quest “Deep Freezing”…?

We air-condition the Vanni borders
We air-condition the Tamils from slaughter
We air-condition their schools and bunkers
We air condition them children and toddlers

So they say there is global warming
The clubs and nights keep the city on the grooving
Casinos and beauty parlors keeps on rolling
And we say this out loud, “We will rather be boozing”.
And we say this out loud, “We will rather be boozing”.

And in here we dwell, all we surfers and losers

Say this out loud, “I would rather be a boozer”.

The toiler the worker the empty pocketer
The maker the composer the hunger feeder
Opened are the drills of the air-conditioners
Started to freeze the VIP limber

National Suicide in the South and North

The suicide attack at the Petta Railway Station

A survivor of the Madu bomb blast

“When my neighbor’s home burns, my own is in danger.”1 To begin from where we concluded and conclude from where we began, it is necessary to quote the following passage from our previous paper:

“The ghosts of Darfur appear to be walking again on a different terrain…, the specters of which have come to stay on the Northern battle front of Ceylon…,”

Further;

“…the Ceylonese South is no more than the rotten military bowels of Pakistan, in itself the Ceylonese South moulds its North as the Darfur in the Indian Ocean…


So no more it awaits… the North is exporting its equal wrath in to the bowels of the oppressor's heart …….whose affects will be born again and again on the surface of the great pearl and shall paint its crust with unhindered human blood.”

Indeed. So it was painted with human blood of its infants and civilians. If it is true that this war is really a fight for national existence, for freedom, if it is true that these priceless possessions can be defended only by the iron tools of murder, if this war is the holy cause of the people, then everything else follows as a matter of course, we must take everything that the war may bring as a part of the bargain. He who desires the purpose must be satisfied with the means. War is methodical, organised, gigantic murder. But in normal human beings this systematic murder is possible only when a state of intoxication has been previously created. This has always been the tried and proven method of those who make war. Bestiality of action must find a commensurate bestiality of thought and senses; the latter must prepare and accompany the former.2

As many as sixty people were murdered in the South by the LTTE in a series of suicide and claymore attacks, dipping the Southern mass in its own blood. It digs in to the ribs of South to show that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is still here… Government of Sri Lanka played its part by bombing a bus in Madu, Wanni, murdering twelve school girls with eight other people including three teachers and a principal. It is continuously launching arbitrary air strikes, bombarding the war refugees in the Northern borders of Wanni and in many other areas of the North. The Southern mass nails its head on the idea that, “the North is killing itself and the GOSL is innocent”.

History is repeating itself. Both factions have exported the war in to the heart of public sphere, the battle is fought by slaughtering the mass of the oppressed and their infants in North and South alike. The Sinhalese and the Tamil bourgeois, the ruling capitalists have no fear of their lives, the war is fulfilling its own cause and pose no threat to their luxuriously mis-shaped everyday orgy. Then the catastrophe has arrived. More than 50, 000 underdeveloped spirits, haunting in the rural South were pulled in to the SL Army during the period of last six months, hitting a record high walks in to the Government war machine, not knowing how many in to the LTTE. Numerical tables instruct the public without exciting their emotions.3 All the sons of the dispossessed peasants and the malnutritioned workers are called upon to take up arms against each other. The flower of the nation armed with the best instrument of murder will make war upon each other. Behind this march there looms the final crash. Not the workers, but the ruling class has brought this. They are driving things to the gallows, they are leading the workers to the abyss. And we ask, are the peasants of today really nothing but sheep to be led mutely to the slaughter? 4

Starting the “debate” on the extension of the emergency, the premier of the country stated that there is an attempt by the international elements to get this country in to their hands, and he also talked high on the terrorists not sparing any place when resorting to violence. Therefore he is concerned about the International and National plot, the unity of the two opposites which is about to rob the motherland from its Sinhalese. And he imputes the Southern mass to assist the Government in its cause. We repeat, “…in normal human beings systematic murder is possible only when a state of intoxication has been previously created. This has always been the tried and proven method of those who make war. Bestiality of action must find a commensurate bestiality of thought and senses; the latter must prepare and accompany the former”. Everything must justify its existence before the judgment-seat of reason or give up existence.5 So the Government of Sri Lanka has prevailed; nonchalantly it fastened the laurel of the liberator of Sinhalese culture to its helmet. Yes, it endeavored to carry through the role of the “liberator of Nation”, though often with visible discomfort and rather awkward grace.6

The Southern petty-bourgeois and the peasantry have become ‘the outer protective shell’7 of the Sinhalese State, therefore they have become a politico-ideological force superseding its epicenter of political will. In North, the oppressed mass has no milder bearings, it equals itself with the LTTE’s regime. Thus the political solution to the conflict has walked hand in hand from the military barracks, and resided on the banks of the public life. The Northern and Southern public have formed an offensive army guarding its States, and the States are seizing the public with its war machine. This short phase of infinite murder means that war has withdrawn itself from the battlefield between the defense lines of the Government Forces and the LTTE, and deposited itself in the more luxurious political accounts of the general public. The final solution will be written with public’s blood, on the streets and highways of South and on the jungle roads of the North.

Still… business is flourishing upon the ruins. Cities are turned in to shambles, villages in to cemeteries, the public in to beggars; popular rights, treatise, alliances, the holiest words and the Members of the Parliament have been turned in to scraps.8 Both factions, the Government and the LTTE, looks upon each other as the evil genius of its people, worthy only of the contempt of the world. Hunger revolts in North and South, misery and dispersion every where.

The war mongering middle strata, the petty-bourgeois of the South, emerges out of the most shameful defeats as spotlessly as he innocently went into them. With the strengthened confidence that he must win, he is more than ever is certain that he and his party – (the JVP, SLFP, UNP, the Heritage Party) need no new principles, that events and conditions must finally come to meet them.9 Gigantic his problems are his mistakes. No firmly fixed plan, no orthodox rituals that holds good for all times show him the path that he must travel. Historical inexperience is his only teacher, his eight fold path to Nibbana is not only covered with unspeakable suffering but with countless mistakes. His final liberation, depends entirely upon the workers and the oppressed peasants, on whether they learn to understand from their own racist mistakes.10

And now, the Government is screening its only possible show to the Southern crowd and to its international viewers; the conjuring up of the dead from its grave, the 13th Amendment and the Provincial Elections in the East. The provincial election is not conducted in the East, but is projected on to the screens planted in South and in abroad to convince them, the viewers, that the Government possess the political consent of the Eastern mass. Sixty eight people have been abducted in the East during the period of last three months and twelve of them are candidates to the Provincial Election to be held in the East. Allow us to repeat from our previous paper, “Right is on the side of might, legal phrases are on the side of impotence.”11 This shall build the necessary path for the LTTE to re-enter itself in to the active ideology of the Eastern oppressed, therefore to reactivate its mission in the Eastern front. Even the advisor to the president, Vasudeva Nanayakkara has confirmed that the sixteen bodies which were unearthed in Kabithigollawa recently are those of the abducted, murdered by the Government’s terrorist unit; the Sri Lankan Forces.

In no country has public opinion so completely vanished, nowhere has it been so completely superseded by official opinion, by the order of the government,12 as in Ceylon. Nowhere is the press so thoroughly gagged, so completely choked off - twelve journalists were murdered during the period of last two years; nowhere is the political and industrial class struggle of the working class, so entirely abandoned as in Neo-Ceylon. Its great historical problem is the struggle for peace, and the class struggle, in the times of bloody ethnic war.

What then has changed in this respect when the war broke out? Have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervor declared: in view of the needs of the war we hereby turn over the means of production, the earth and the factories therein, into the possession of the people? Have they set aside all political privileges, will they sacrifice them upon the altar of the motherland, now that it is in danger? Of course nothing of the sort has occurred. 13 Property rights, exploitation and class rule, even political oppression in all its “Sri” Lankan thoroughness, have remained intact.

We must realise what it was that happened here. People must cease to be will less, thoughtless herds. That is new in the history of the Earth. Hitherto masses have always blindly followed the lead of those who interested in war, who drove them at each others throats to mass murder. That shall stop. The masses must ceased to be instruments, the yeomen of war profiteers.14

Hitherto men in Neo-Ceylon have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. The phantoms formed in the human brain are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life process.15 They have arranged their relationships according to their ideas of Racist Nationalism. The phantoms of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations. Let us liberate them from the chimeras, the ideas, dogmas, imaginary beings under the yoke of which they are pining away. Let us revolt against the rule of thoughts..., nor the guns load themselves, nor the triggers pull itself… Let us teach men, says one, to exchange these imaginations for thoughts which correspond to the essence of man; says the second, to take up a critical attitude to them; says the third, to knock them out of their heads; and -- existing reality will collapse.16

References:

1. Luxemburg .R, The Junius Pamphlet – The Crisis in the German Social Democracy. Third Sri Lankan Edition. pp 64
2. Ibid. Pages 17 – 18
3. Marx .K, Marx and Engels Collected Works Vol. 1. Pp 133
4. Luxemburg .R, The Junius Pamphlet – The Crisis in the German Social Democracy. Third Sri Lankan Edition.. Quoting August Bebel in the Reichstag in the Morocco and Victor Adler at the International Peace Congress, November 12. Pp 10, 12
5. Engel .F, Anti-Dhurring, Introduction. Pp?
6. Gramsci .Antonio, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
7. Luxemburg .R, The Junius Pamphlet – The Crisis in the German Social Democracy. Third Sri Lankan Edition. Pp 61
8. Ibid. Pp 6
9. Ibid. Quoting Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852). Page 6
10. Ibid. Pp 6
11. Marx .K, Marx and Engels Collected Works Vol. 1. pp 6
12. Luxemburg .R, The Junius Pamphlet – The Crisis in the German Social Democracy. Third Sri Lankan Edition. Pp 74
13. Ibid. Pp72
14. Ibid. Pp?
15. Marx .K and Engels .F, The Germen Ideology, Chapter I. Pp?
16. Ibid. Pp?

The Darfur In the Indian Ocean...?

The birth of an era of social malice – can there be anything more “magnificent” in the affairs of the mankind? The social order is transformed in to a state of protracted murder and mass robbery. The institutions and traditions, the resurrection of which has been periodically carried out by the general public, are now nailing that same mass on the cross of social democracy in all its nakedness. The age of globalization is mere pre-history; the “Eye” of its warpath has now turned towards nations…

>The Neo-Ceylon state is firing blades in to the heart of its general public, it has withdrawn itself from the Cease Fire Agreement with the LTTE and has declared the New Year as the year of war. It is an unavoidable reality that war in all its potency develops earlier than peace 1.., yet it presupposes the latter shall prevail soon after the combat is seized. But it has ceased to come along that lane. War is nothing but deception, it is nothing but deceiving the watchful eye of its observers, in this case it is the eye of the general masses, the murder of whom, has become a monotonous task. And yet, the final solution is not one step nearer. Feudal rule has caught in its own tarp and can not ban the spirit it has invoked.

>The fat red riding president, Mahinda Rajapakse, who hoped for comfort amid the cradle of its kin, has met its own wolves under the swathe of deep family love. His creation of family heirs has left himself at the corner as the only remaining representative of its own opinion. His magnanimous show is over; the curtain has fallen on this political reservist as well as on its MPs as they pull out amid the joyous cries of its enthusiastic and starving mass. We no longer see their laughing faces, smiling cheerfully from the train windows upon a war mad Southern population. Quietly they trot through the streets, with their sacks upon their shoulders, filled with their portfolios, and the public with a fretful face goes about its daily task. Gone are the blooming street demonstrations, gone are the singing throngs, gone the violent mobs ready to denounce ready to whip themselves in to a delirious frenzy over every nail driven in to the heart of the oppressed 2; the Southern mass is breathing the atmosphere of ritual murder, as it hurls itself to the perfect land of man and the beast; which shall prevail is a question of power and volcanic organization on each others hand.

>Weeks before the decision was taken to withdraw itself from the CFA, the Defense Secretariat, a former Sri Lankan army general and the loyal brother of the “President” announced that the “the Cease Fire Agreement is a dead treatise and it is time that we burry it and march the battalions inward to Killinochchi”, not weeks later, the Prime Minister of the country announces the withdrawal from the Cease Fire Agreement and announce the year 2008 as the “year of war”. What is more naked than this..? The executive presidency and its cabinet of ministers is mere excreta of public verdict, the absolute power which yields control over the country is concentrated in to a feudal family integument who never kissed the vote of the general public.

The “procurement” of weapons for the Sri Lankan forces has been brought under a government company, under the leadership of Ghotahbhaya Rajapakse and the Auditor General is banned from the inspection of those monetary figures which have never even been entered in to a public balance sheet. The “loyal” brother to the president, the defense secretariat is making a fortune out of a systematic killing of its desired population, while the profits are springing, like weeds from the fields of the dead. The executive presidency and its MPs are being confiscated inside a barless prison by this un-seizeble family rule. What is more naked than this…? The country is brought under a feudal family format who dares to embrace the vote of the public.

>The Eastern surface is being brought under the executive rule of Bazil Rajapakse, the “loyal” brother to the president, who pumps the spirit of slaughter in to the flesh of the paramilitaries who freely roam on the soil of Eastern borders subsequent to the withdrawal of the LTTE from its ranks. He, the Bazil Rajapakse, the bearer of the throne of the East is drawing gigantic development plans and inviting the multinationals and nationals to capitalize on the Eastern surface. It is him who has completed the pre-capitalist accumulation of the East, the subsummation of labour by capital for which 20% of the capital investments of who ever investor, must be deposited in the swollen accounts of Bazil Rajapakse. In addition, all the civil administration posts of the North & East is being filled by retired army generals and the commanding positions of religious institutions are being replaced and filled with the family members of the Rajapakse monarch. What is more naked than this..? The body of the country is crafted with Fascist flesh whose skeleton reveals the iron structure of the Feudal rule who dare to turn its ear even to the bourgeoisie democratic winds blowing from the Western deserts.

The unionization, demonstrations, strikes and protests are being murdered by the bourgeoisie factory of its ethical production. The court hurls its sharp blades of law in to the heart of the elementary struggles of the oppressed and rules them out ceaselessly in favor of the architect of the fiend floating on the waters of the Indian Ocean. The Negro-Robin Hoods in the ILO have also sent allegations in vain against the measures of the Ceylonese judiciary.

In to the disillusioned atmosphere of pale daylight there rings a different chorus; the hoarse croak of the hawks and hyenas of the battlefield. The spirit of the struggle is choked away from the rest of the Earth, all roads closed that bring the winds of Jaffna to the Southern surface. The North is called the unfaithful wretch by his cousin on the other side. The ghosts of Darfur appear to be walking again on a different terrain…, the specters of which has come to stay on the Northern battle front of Ceylon…, a miles walk by the government forces beyond the surface of its Forward Defense Line lay many miles of slaughter and sharpened mass ruin.

Shamed, dishonored, wading in blood and dripping with filth, thus the half feudal society stands, the Ceylonese South is no more than the rotten military bowels of Pakistan, in itself the Ceylonese South moulds its North as the Darfur in the Indian Ocean…

So no more it awaits… the North is exporting its equal wrath in to the bowels of the oppressor’s heart, murdering twenty six civilians with infants as a beacon of mortified flesh to mark the end of the Cease Fire Agreement, whose affects will be born again and again on the surface of the great pearl and shall paint its crust with unhindered human blood.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language 3. Thus the Ceylonese government put on the mask of the ancient kings, draped itself alternately in the guise of those feudal rulers –king Dutugamunu, Ghotahbhaya and so on­­­­- who still haunt the brains of the living. But unheroic though the current ruling monarch is, it nevertheless needs its public to perform heroism, sacrifice, terror, civil war, and national wars to bring itself into being. Therefore the GOSL is preaching its public to be heroic, vigilant and no more patriotic in order to secure its own existence from being displayed within the contemporary museums of Sri Lankan political history.. And the LTTE is no more equal to the task, it has wrapped itself with the latter’s un-diminishable product, and waging a never ending spiral of massacre until the South strips its imaginary costumes..

How does the birth of a new Empire of such strength come about? What path through the labyrinth of social process leads to it?

It is nothing but the impotency and hypocrisy of the (L)eftist political parties in Ceylon and its rotten body of Trade Union organizations who laid the foundation for this empire of murder and robbery to rise above the earth and its people. The left politicians have left the proletariat and the peasantry to its irreversible doom and more over, it has aborted the weak fetus of Socialism that grows and moulds inside the womb of capitalism by depositing themselves in the side banks of the oppressor state. The immediate advice to the proletariat and Ceylon peasantry is the murder of middle class Left parties and their body of Trade Unions at one blow. No more do we need them, no more they shall become a reality.

A huge amount of foreign aid is continuously pumped in to the prevailing economy of war, it has grown a sea of blood which inundates the entire surface of the North and East and the South alike while the inflation rate of most of the life making goods have burst themselves towards 100% - 150% range. The fact that 1/4 th of the Sri Lankan population live in absolute poverty of less than Rs. 791 per month and about 1/3rd below the higher poverty line of Rs. 950 per month4 implies that the country’s development process have not been holistic nor any egalitarian, and the system of war governance have reinforced these conditions which result in impoverishment of the poor while the ruling factions have continuously accelerated its every form of wealth; the richest 20% of the population receives 49.9% of the GDP5.

The assassination of the parliamentarian Mr. T. Maheshwaran and the shock of an information which he released on the murderous role which the government forces have undertook in the area of North and East , two days prior to his murder, uncloaks the brutal killers roaming under the Sinhala Buddhist defense shield. Mr. Maheshwaran’s murder is an open declare of state terrorism against any individual or group who attempts to be the voice of the people who are powerless and brutally murdered everyday. Mr. Maheshwaran has pledged to expose information on planned killings of civilians in the district of Jaffna and in the Northern Province alike, by sending paramilitary groups to those areas by the Central Government of Sri Lanka.

Many lives of the workers employed at the National Media Corporation have entered in to an inevitable armed struggle against the paramilitaries of the government and the state sponsored underworld carders. No one was arrested following the recent incident at the National Media Corporation when the Minister of Labour raided the institution and assaulted the News Director for he is guilty of not telecasting a speech made by the Minister at an inaugural ceremony of an opening of a bridge.

It triggered an uprising of the people within the institution premises itself, the workers greeted the Minister and his underworld carders with stones and iron fists. The new army of liberation was equipped, and roaming within the borders of the Colombo city. It was a spontaneous operation of the masses, an hour of revolutionary uprising, in all its purity the workers were storming their way to heaven; but it no longer recognized the ghosts of the lumpen empire is watching over its cradle.

Soon after the Minister was shamelessly transported to the General Hospital in Colombo under the protection of the SF and STF, the Central Investigations Department confiscated the video tapes which contained the attack against Minister and its killer gang, the tapes were confiscated in order to launch governments murderous wrath over the people who rose against this nuclear fists of the Lumpen Bourgeois. It has become a dire necessity to cut off the lumpen heads that have grown on the political integument of the mass of the people.

The grand Lion of the South is copping its own tong with its own antique blade, now blunt and out-of-date. Not three months ago that the Sunday Leader press which is located within the high security zone in Colombo was burned down, who else other than the government forces can destroy the property of its own military strong hold….? A few days later a security guard of Minister Anura Bandaranaike was murdered in the high security zone of Colombo chopping his neck open, and had sat free his body in to high secured waters of the Barey Lake.

All these killings must be executed by the state for the sake of National security. These people who were murdered by the government are Sinhalese and Tamil terrorists who support the cause of the LTTE. Is this not the evil that the government propagates through out the whole mass of the people in the country by the use of its media apartment?

For this sort of a “false consciousness” to be implanted in to the ideology of the general public requires the prior construction of the consent of power across a sufficiently large spectrum of population to win elections. The dominant ideology of the ruling class typically grounds consent. It is constructed out of long standing cultural socialization rooted deep in National traditions. It therefore can be profoundly misleading and disguising real conflicts under cultural prejudices and National values can therefore be mobilized to mask other realities 6.

The word “freedom” resonates so widely within the common understanding of the Americans that it becomes a ‘button that elites can press to open the door to the masses’ to justify almost anything. Thus could Bush retrospectively justify the Iraq war and the Sri Lankan state can justify the mass slaughter through out the country in the same way or at least they can make an attempt on that path; “therefore political problems become insolvable when disguised as cultural ones” 7.

It was only through playing the nationalism card in the Falkans/Malvians war that Margaret Thatcher could win the re-election and promote further Neoliberal reforms internally 8.

If the Neoliberal state is facing the general period of declining capitalism and therefore grave economic crises, then what might replace it? What did the Sri Lankan government and no less the Bush administration do when they faced the seven signs of Neoliberal chronic economic imbalances?

1. uncontrollable internal budgetary deficits
2. a balance of payment crisis
3. rapid currency depreciation
4. unstable valuation of internal assets
5. rising inflation
6. rising unemployment with falling wages
7. capital flight

They stepped its gear in to the ‘war on terrorism’, the rise of militaristic means to handle chronic economic crises, it is namely a shift towards Neo-conservatism; in other words it is the emphasis on Nationalism to justify and provoke public support on military acquisitions. This militarization of the public sphere has much to do with asserting domestic control over much divided body of politic (such as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the JVP, The Buddhist Monks and its affiliate mass). Fear and insecurity were all too easily and in this case successfully manipulated for the construction of power.

The grade one child recruitments for national schools in Sri Lanka was conducted inside a fascist integument. Fifty five points out of hundred were rewarded to those children who had their parents and relatives employed in the armed forces, this resulted in 90% of the student recruitments for the National schools were fulfilled by the children of the armed personnel.

There is no other country so barbarous and in which the mass of the people were robbed to such extent of political understanding, light and knowledge - no other country has remained in the Indian Ocean’; Sri Lanka is the exception. The pearl of the Indian Ocean has depreciated all of its value and sunk itself to the bottom of its waters.

Many parliamentarians faced death threats when they refused to vote for the governments 2008 budgetary proposals, the family members of three Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians were abducted just days before the voting of the national budget was conducted. The end result was the successful overcoming of the budgetary crisis that the Sri Lankan government faced through the use of its capacity to seize the lives of its rivals.

The OPEC oil prices hike that came with the oil embargo of 1973 placed vast amount of financial power at the disposal of the oil producing states such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi. We know from the British intelligence repots that the U.S was actively preparing to invade these countries in 1973 in order to restore the flow of oil and bring down the oil prices. We also know that the Saudis agreed that time, presumably under military pressure, if not open threat from U.S to recycle all of their petrodollars through the New York Investment Banks9. The end result was the successful overcoming of the oil crisis that U.S was about to face through the use of its capacity to seize the lives of its rivals.

What is there to be more precise than this? It is nothing but the global unity of Intra-State Fascism.

So what are our president and ministers thinking about? The president regards the proletariat as gun powder, and political knowledge is a spark; the president is convinced that if the spark falls on to the gun powder, the explosion will be directed first and foremost against the terrorism of the state 10.

“Right is on the side of might.”
“Legal phrases are on the side of impotence.11 “










References:

1. Marx K. Grundrisse
2. Luxemburg R. The Junius Pamphlet
3. Marx K. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
4. Household Income and Expenditure Survey 1995/96 – Department of Census and Statistics, Colombo.
5. Ibid.
6. Gramsci A. Selections From the Prison Note Books
7. Ibid.
8. Harvey D. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
9. Stigleize J. The Roaring Nineties
10. Lenin V. I. What Are Our ministers Thinking About?
11. Marx K. Collected Works Vol. 8

Dear All,

Please forward this article to everyone and make the move to end this never perishing war, lets make this the path to begin our muted conversation to paint the Map of Freedom…