{"id":76664,"date":"2026-07-17T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=76664"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:37:44","slug":"prachanda-unveils-political-outline-of-socialism-in-sri-lanka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/07\/17\/76664\/","title":{"rendered":"Prachanda unveils political outline of socialism in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>. KATHMANDU: Coordinator of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal &#8216;Prachanda&#8217; has presented a political outline of socialism at the Hands of Asia International Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Addressing the inaugural session of the conference organized by the International People&#8217;s Assembly as the keynote speaker, Prachanda analyzed the historical achievements, challenges and important lessons learned from the Asian communist movement.<\/p>\n<p> In the midst of changing global power balances and increasing competition among superpowers, the policy of non-alignment and socialist construction is a common historical need of the oppressed countries. <\/p>\n<p> Sri Lanka&#8217;s Environment Minister Dr.<\/p>\n<p>Dammika Patabendi spoke about the creation of an alternative path to people-oriented development amidst strict terms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan program and fiscal discipline. <\/p>\n<p> Vijay Prasad, a world-renowned Marxist writer, historian and convener of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, analysed the global militarization, the sovereign debt crisis and the rise of the far-right as interrelated manifestations of the imperialist structure and expressed his views on the current international political situation. According to the organizers, the three-day conference will discuss various political and ideological issues.<\/p>\n<p>Dahal, who is in Sri Lanka on the side-lines of the summit, is scheduled to hold bilateral and multilateral meetings with the leaders of communist and leftist parties of Asia. <\/p>\n<p> He also met with top leftist leaders from Latin American countries, including Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil, on the sidelines of the summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Similarly, in the second session of the conference, Nepali Communist Party leader Balram Baskota presented a special ideological working paper on the topic &#8216;Role of Imperialism in Splitting Leftist Forces&#8217; on behalf of the International People&#8217;s Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. KATHMANDU: Coordinator of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal &#8216;Prachanda&#8217; has presented a political outline of socialism at the Hands of Asia International Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka.\u00a0 Addressing the inaugural session of the conference organized by the International People&#8217;s Assembly as the keynote speaker, Prachanda analyzed<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/07\/17\/76664\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Prachanda unveils political outline of socialism in Sri Lanka&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":76658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo-8_aad3e691.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76665,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76664\/revisions\/76665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/76658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}