Articles by Amrit Wilson

the growing conflicts between financial debt speculation and real economic productive investment, through the already conflicting monetary, fiscal, exchange rate, trade, security and other policies. Therefore; another (again more severe?) recession threatens also to spark another (also more acute?) crisis within the crisis. More of the same muddling through is likely to become impossible. Any possibility of reimposition of the old American dominance (or an alternative Japanese new dominance) in a multilateral world economic and financial system or its coordinated management by the G7, G5 or G3 is improbable in such a recession. (A US bomb and Japanese yen based Pacific basin political economic consortium is possible but rather unlikely, and one in eluding Europe even less likely.) The most likely possible alternative resolution will therefore be increasingly neo-mercantilist regionalisation of the world economy into American dollar, Japanese yen and SRI LANKA A Political Life Amrit Wilson ON Thursday September 21, Rajani Thiranagama was shot dead while on her way home from the University of Jaffna. Her murder sent a deep shock of sorrow and anger through a city where killings and disappearances are every day occurrences. People knew that she had been killed for what she stood for and for the work she had been doing in the last few years.

speeches may well be an affirmation of ber confidence in the leadership of Hiteswar Saikia and her reluctance to make Buy overture to the agitationists which might appear as being made over the Saikia administration's heads. But such restraint cannot entirely be reassuring for the Chief Minister either. For, while the Prime Minister is satisfied with the Chief Minister's performance, what has not been endorsed il his own indispensabi- lity in Assam. At some point, the Prime Minister will have to reopen the Assam issue; and then, it may well become necessary for her to abandon Hiteswar Saikia and look for a more acceptable leader who might negotiate with the agitation leaders. Hiteswar Saikia, despite all the claims being made, has not yet been able to establish such links, though there are others in the Congress(I) legislature party, and even in the cabinet, who have such links. This probably explains why the Chief Minister scrupulously kept out every other cabinet member and even other local leader from the limelight and ensured that; next to the Prime Minister, he would be the most important dignitary during her visit to the State.

September 19, 1981 BRITAIN Trials in Bradford: Whose Conspiracy?
Amrit Wilson "THE court system in this country is increasingly becoming a powerful instrument of repression. It is being used to crush the struggle for liberation of oppressed people and not only to crush the conscious revolutionary but to break the rebellious spirit of Black people... And I think that one of the best methods of radicalising an individual today is to have him spend a day in court witnessing the way we are unceasingly railroaded into jails and prisons, Now even the facade of democracy is beginning to fall. Therefore we cannot expect justice from a impressive judicial system and I am sure that an exclusively legalistic approach to my defence would be fatal. So what we have to do is talk about placing the courts themselves on trial." Thus Angela Davis, describing America in 1971; but it might as well have been Britain in 1981. Here too as in, say, Los Angeles of the mid 1960s, intensifying police brutality has led to 'uprisings' in the black community which have been crushed with unprecedented paramilitary violence by the police. In Brixton whole streets have been smashed up in police searches. In Liverpool CS gas bullets have been tired directly at people and young men have been crushed to death by deliberate charges from police vehicles. The 'uprisings' have demonstrated that the black population is the most revolutionary section of the British working class and, in recognition of this as it were, the State has launched a new attack on the black communities (again in striking analogy with the US in the 1960s). To try and silence black political activists they are being charged with conspiracy and imprisoned possibly for life.

from public funds by the Smith regime. But during the Muzorewa regime these schools were transferred into private hands with their board of governors having the powers to decide on admissions as well as appointments. The teachers in these schools are all white and the pupils too are in the main white, with the symbolic presence of a few black children. Government's moves to take over the schools have raised the cry that this would be a violation of the Bill of Rights which was accepted as part of the Lancaster House agreement. A compromise is yet to be worked out.