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e-Con e-News 08-14 September 2025

The big lie, relentless and widespread, that the English & the US defeated Fascism in 1945 is meticulously unmasked by Roy Singham in this exclusive ee Focus. Singham dates the beginning of World War II to Japan’s invasion of China in 1931. He establishes that it is the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union & China, through the ‘strategic brilliance’ of their socialist leaders, who made the greatest sacrifices to smash imperialist forces. He details how England & the US kept hedging their bets, while amassing their war profits, quite content to wish the German and Japanese Fascists would eliminate the Communists.

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A prolix commentator, writing about the Ceylon University Magazine’s ‘attitude of the Indian Communist Party to Hitler’, claims ‘The confusion of Sri Lankan communists and their relations to the English with regard to the war are legend here even though these subtle differences mean so little now.’ (see ee Quotes, Trots). Really? Were they that ‘subtle’; don’t these confusions or deliberate distortions about the larger world endure?

     Early September saw the 80^th Anniversary of the victory of that war against Fascism, preceded by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit: a security alliance of some of the leading economic powerhouses in the world. Since Sri Lanka is facing dangerous political, military and economic threats to its sovereignty, Shiran Illanperuma examines the failure of the elected National Peoples Power (NPP) government in Sri Lanka to send high-level representation to both these historic events(see ee Focus). Such ‘miscalculations’ recall earlier misapprehensions, by some of Sri Lanka’s nominally socialist leaders, despite claims to being revolutionary, against supporting the USSR in 1939, which resulted in Sri Lanka continuing as a colony, in all but name, to this day. Many of these leaders instead strengthened their alliances (personal, social & political) with England, the EU, & the USA, further straining under the claim that they alone upheld a purer form of socialism – if only in theory.

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Last week, we failed to note – midst listing all the escalating threats to Sri Lanka, from oceanic war-games to the charade in Geneva – the upcoming 2026 budget preparations, from September to December. It is no coincidence that a delegation from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), direct representatives of the Executive Office of the US President, are here largely unheralded and un-headlined (see ee poster, see ee Quotes). The US, EU & English governments, their thinktanks and ‘chambered’ fronts, keep salivating at the prospects of selling off national resources & enterprises, on behalf of their Wall Street fund managers, while muttering about ‘free trade’ this and ‘green, ‘carbon’ that. The NPP’s neutered (napuns) rather than neutral responses has been attributed to a failure of the government to break out of the economic trap that the country has been led into – constantly whitewashed & greenwashed with claims to environmental & human rights. Prabhat Patnaik (see ee Focus) recalls how most countries after nominal decolonization had sought to promote self-reliance, by expanding the home market and using the public sector to develop domestic production & technology. The US government’s ‘weaponization of tariffs constitutes an entirely novel tactic of imperialism’ and hopes to prevent any such economic emancipation. Yet, is it new, and is it not an evolution of England’s economic terrorism such as ‘imperial preferences’, etc?

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Fascism today, this time led by the USA, with England & the EU in tail-wagging lockstep, is waging horrific wars in Central Africa (largely unreported), and West Asia (displayed in graphic detail, minus naming exactly who is responsible), fronted by proxies, which include not just Uganda, Rwanda, Israel, & Ukraine, but also those who claim to be opposed to such aggression, like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc. Their war on Myanmar also goes largely unreported in a supine media in Sri Lanka that relies almost totally on the BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, etc, for its ‘international’ news, despite our ancient ties with that country. Whence does such abject slavishness originate?

‘[US] Ambassador Chung, known for her strong support of young

political leaders open to learning from global experiences,

engaged with representatives from the SLPP, SJB, PTA,

ACMC, ITAK & the RUF during the meeting.’

– see ee Sovereignty, NextGenSL holds

constructive talks with US Ambassador Julie Chung

With US envoy Chung in a constant state of imminent departure, due to her failure so far to deliver the heads of the Rajapakses, the US appears to be signalling that Sri Lanka might be up next for further destabilization, coming close on the heels of setting fire to Nepal. The attacks in Nepal appear to have targeted those people and institutions linked to China. The USA’s playbook for destabilization of our countries appears to be: 1) the co-option of socialist and nationalist opposition; 2) the promotion of what Lenin tagged Leftwing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, unleashing anarchists, nihilists, etc., to sabotage any attempt at ‘delinking’ from imperialism; and 3) the eventual imposition of a fascist (not-so-new) world order…

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• Meanwhile, an entrapped government has taken to AI-generated virtue-signalling, daily declaring anodynes (‘water is wet’ & ‘poison is bad for adults as well as children’). Each day huge flotillas of Indian fishermen invade Sri Lankan territory, so it was perhaps more symbolism that saw the President, appearing brave minus life jacket, declaring an islet as sovereign. Perhaps it is to signal larger issues such as India’s Sethusamudram Canal Project, the Palk Bay, Palk Strait & Demarcation of the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL), Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI), Regional Maritime Posture, etc, which is being left to the talking heads of mostly US-funded thinktanks. Yet what of the USA taking over the Chagos Atoll, lobbing missiles on Asia and Africa from there? The President should perhaps sail the entire perimeter…

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• England has banned and erased a wall mural of a bewigged judge baton-whipping a child holding a poster – a reference to England criminalizing and brutalizing support for Palestine, any protesting against the US-England-EU-Israel war on their occupied country. What is notable is that it is the woollen wig that is the distinctive feature that makes the mural contentious. Wool, as ee has pointed out before – from cricket’s wicket, to Jesus as shepherd, to Baa baa black sheep – is the historical cultural symbol, par excellence. that all laws and parliamentary proceeding etc in England are fundamentally based on its economic needs. England had to go to war for a century and more to prevent the export of unfinished wool to Europe. So, look how all our erected monkeys – the businessmen, the judges, the speakers – are still suited and bewigged in wool in our weather…

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An AGA in Sri Lanka wrote in 1895 how ‘agitated’ the chiefs were

‘over the Ball to be given in honour of the departing Governor.

They are all anxious to do what they can to show their respect

to HE [His Excellency]… though they don’t dance…

Besides, their full dress is out of place at Colombo.’

– SBD de Silva

• In his conclusion to Chapter 1 of The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (PEU), SBD de Silva notes that underdevelopment was a ‘total phenomenon’, not just confined to peasant agriculture or to economic activity but has also created ‘an underdeveloped society’.The incessant medianonsense about the impartiality of the police and public service under colonialism is just not true… The English privileged ‘archaic, conservative & backward’ classes, who were / areprimarily interested in preserving the social & economic status quo. De Silva details the creation of a bureaucracy and a loyal class ‘whiter than the white’, producing generations of people who ‘found themselves rootless, out of touch with their own country & its enduring culture’, yet unable to compete with the English culturally or technologically. They entrenched ‘retrograde social structures and ideologies’ creating mimic men who ‘even the white rulers found ridiculous’. SBD de Silva’s PEU provides excellent examples of such classes across Asia and Africa. (see ee Focus)

• The USA’s recent televised hunting down, manacling and deportation of ~450 Korean and other workers ‘of color’ at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, suggests that such ‘global brands’ as Samsung, Hyundai, LG & Hanjin are but ‘coolie’ fronts for US multinational corporations (MNCs). This ee concludes the look at US-occupied Korea’s model of industrialization, examining how that colony benefited the most from the US wars on East Asia, unlike the Philippines and Thailand etc, who also gained from those wars. Apparently, despite these countries’ governments allowing US military intrusions into their domestic & foreign affairs, there was a strong nationalist element that made the US suspicious of their governments. The authors conclude that unlike the ‘free market’, ‘free trade’ theories, ‘statist analyses of the ways policies guide the market’ are far superior. Certainly, the present US government has thrown all such theoretical fashionings to the winds. (see ee Focus)

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• Despite the US embassy’s increasingly hysterical claims about the USA’s commitments to ‘free and fair’ this and that, ee Focus also continues looking at US politics. Here is the best mockery of democracy that money can buy, provided through Gustavus Myers’ 1917 History of Tammany Hall, that famous New York ‘charity’ that disguised a political machinery, embracing ‘a vast & intricate web of influences, activities & consequences’, linking municipal potholes fixers & federal presidents. The buying & selling of votes, contracts for railways & cement, etc., offices, jobs, the deployment of ‘ethnic’ diasporas, the fixing of elections, and creative political maneuverings, required an organization with iron discipline, a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, ruled by ‘one hard-headed, tireless ‘boss’, with each member linking self-interest to a loyalty, which like Christian marriages were ‘for better or for worse’, no matter the various claims to ‘reform’…

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Contents:

Honoring China & the USSR’s Historic Defeat of Fascism 1931-45 & How Sri Lanka Remains a Colony