Economic mess? turn the searchlight inwards
The government is trying to put the economy right with extreme measures that have driven prices up and laid an unbearable burden on the poor, and it wants the liquidity crisis understood as something external that it could not control. The internal factor it will not admit is mismanagement.
Failure to see the wood for the trees
If Prabhakaran can reverse in seventy-two hours what forty thousand men gained in thirty-three months, and if society still cannot see after that experience that there is no military solution to the ethnic problem, then the day a separate state is established in the North-East cannot be far away.
වැඩිපුර වී ලබාගන්නට නව උපාය මාර්ගයක්
Ivan frames the 1974 food-production drive as a front in a wider struggle between the “progressive” United Front government and reactionary forces he describes as turning fascist. He notes that the Maha harvest beat its target by 14 percent, yet the Paddy Marketing Board bought only half its quota, while most of the crop went to black-market traders. Raising the guaranteed price four times in seventeen months has failed: traders outbid the state each time, and every increase pushes up the price of the urban workers’ rice ration. Returning to the proposal in his May article, he argues that the state should transfer all tenanted paddy land to its cultivators. Owners would be compensated, and tenants would repay the cost in paddy delivered to the Board instead of rent to landlords. That would bring the quarter of the national harvest now lost to rent into public hands, raise yields, settle long-running tenancy disputes, and turn sharecroppers into what he calls an anti-fascist rural force.