1. ප්රසිද්ධ සාකච්ඡාවකදී කෙනෙක් ඔබෙන් අසයි, "හරි, ඔබ ප්රතික්ෂේප කරන දේ මට තේරෙනවා, නමුත් මම කල්පනා කරන්නේ ඔබ කුමක් සඳහාද? , ජාතිය, පරිසර විද්යාව හෝ ඔබ දැක්මක් ඇති කිරීමට කේන්ද්රීය යැයි ඔබ සිතන්නේ කුමක් ද?
There’s no guarantee, but I believe that institutions under democratic control are generally less harmful than centralized power. That means workplaces should be under the control of the people who work there, bearing in mind the interests and concerns of people affected by that work. It also means neighbourhoods under the control of people who live there, bearing in mind the interests and concerns of people affected by that community. And that should go for industries and economies and for cities and regions. Wealth should very largely be abolished or dispersed amongst us all. In other spheres, we need to find ways to balance freedom and privacy and anonymity with responsibility and accountability and social bonds. To give people some leverage, some support, from outside the family or community, while not undermining the family or community.
2. ඊළඟට, එම ඉසව්වේම කෙනෙක් අසයි, "ඔබ කරන දේ ඔබ කරන්නේ ඇයි? එනම්, ඔබ අපට කතා කරන්නේ, ඔබ ලියන බව මම දනිමි, සමහර විට ඔබ සංවිධානය කරයි, නමුත් ඔබ එය කරන්නේ ඇයි? ඔබ මොකද කරන්නේ? ඔබේ ඉදිරි වසර සඳහා හෝ ඔබේ ඉදිරි වසර දහය සඳහා ඔබේ ඉලක්කය කුමක්ද?
I write and act because it is possible that what I do will be of benefit to those who suffer from Western power, or those who are at risk. I write and I act because it is possible I can contribute to the building of a powerful and radical peace movement that will halt and reverse the race to confrontation and destruction. I know that my writing and organizing have helped and strengthened some people. As long as I’m being helpful, I have to keep trying and keep improving what I do. Frankly, I act and I write because I’m compelled to, by rage at the world as it is. In the next year I hope to do more of these things. In particular, to help stop an escalation of the confrontation with Iran. In the next ten years, I hope to help build a much stronger, much more radical peace movement in Britain, through an evolving network of organizers, trainers, publications, websites and funders.
3. ඔබ නිවසේ සිටින අතර, ඔබට නව සංවිධානයක් පිහිටුවීමට උත්සාහ කරන ඊමේල් පණිවිඩයක් ලැබේ, ජාත්යන්තර වශයෙන්, ජාතික පරිච්ඡේද ෆෙඩරේට් කිරීම යනාදිය. එය උත්සාහයට සම්බන්ධ වන ලෙස ඔබෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටී. දැනටමත් සම්බන්ධ වී සිටින අනෙක් අය සමඟ එය සිදු කිරීමට මම මගේ ශක්තිය ලබා දෙන්නෙමි යැයි ඔබ පවසන පිළිගත හැකි කොන්දේසි ඔබට සිතාගත හැකිද? එසේ නම්, එම කොන්දේසි මොනවාද? එසේත් නැතිනම් - ඒ වෙනුවට ඔබ සිතන්නේ න්යාය පත්රයේ අන්තර්ගතය සහ සහභාගිවන්නන්ගේ සංයුතිය කුමක් වුවත්, අදහස දැන් හෝ සමහර විට කවදා හෝ සුදුසු විය නොහැකි බවයි. එසේ නම්, ඒ මන්ද?
We definitely need international political forms. I think healthy transnational organizations will grow out of the interaction between top-down initiatives (such as the World Social Forum, which created an open, grassroots-oriented space through a self-starting, self- appointed executive structure) and existing grassroots-connected national institutions. Quite what this interaction will be, I don’t know. I find the idea of a transnational radical organization tremendously exciting.
4. ව්යාපාර, ව්යාපෘති සහ අපගේම සංවිධාන සංවිධානය කිරීමට දරන ප්රයත්නයන් වර්තමානයේ අනාගතයේ බීජ මූර්තිමත් කළ යුතු යැයි ඔබ සිතනවාද? එසේ නොවේ නම්, ඇයි? ඔව් නම්, ඉතා දළ වශයෙන්, ඔබ හිතන සමහර ඇඟවුම් ඔබ අනුග්රහය දක්වන සංවිධානයකට කුමක් වේදැයි ඔබට කිව හැකිද?
Radical political organizations should try to embody their values in their structures and their operations. For libertarian socialist or radical pacifist groups, if possible, this should include a balanced job complex, where all those working in an economic unit should have an equally fulfilling and empowering balance of tasks. Peace News, where I work, does not have such a structure, so I cannot in good conscience say any more on thus topic.
5. ඔබ මෙම සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවට පිළිතුරු දුන්නේ ඇයි? අන් අය එයට පිළිතුරු නොදුන් බව ඔබ සිතන්නේ ඇයි?
I answered this interview because I felt guilty at my lack of participation in the rest of the ReSoc project. I’ve regularly scheduled time to take part in the mutual commenting process. Just as regularly, more urgent tasks have swamped my day and absorbed those allocated times. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve said anything that won’t be said by dozens of other respondents (probably more concisely or cleverly), so the perceived net benefit to ‘the movement’ or ZNet of my spending 45 minutes on this is pretty close to zero. Why didn’t other people respond? Because of more urgent tasks swamping their days, because of the perceived net benefit of their response being low. Because they don’t have web-enabled mobile phones that allow them to respond in fairly ‘dead’ time during a train journey where they were planning on clipping newspapers.
ZNetwork හට අරමුදල් සපයනු ලබන්නේ එහි පාඨකයන්ගේ ත්යාගශීලීත්වය මගිනි.
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