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Sangeethsan

The LTTE Ban is a Weapon against All of Us: The Arrest of Sangeethsan and the Real Logic of State Repression

By Sanjaya Jayasekera. These are the lyrics of a young man from a war-ravaged district who grew up surrounded by grief, who found in music a way to articulate what his community has been undemocratically forbidden to say openly since…

Jun 11, 2026 2 days ago
Fire in Horana

The Mawpiya Sevana Fire: Twelve Dead because Capitalism has no use for the Elderly

By Sanjaya Jayasekera, Member, The Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA), the Revolutionary Left Faction of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) of Sri Lanka. On the evening of June 3, 2026, fire consumed the Mawpiya Sevana care…

Jun 8, 2026 5 days ago
Jaffna speech

“Never Again” — 45th Commemoration of the Jaffna Public Library Arson

By Sanjaya Jayasekera, member SLLA. Tonight marks the 45th anniversary of the burning of the Jaffna Public Library in May 1981. If we, the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA), the Revolutionary Left Faction of the Socialist…

May 31, 2026 2 weeks ago
Theepachelvan Piratheepan

The NPP/JVP Government’s Assault on Tamil Historical Memory: State Censorship, Class Repression and Intellectual Complicity

By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia condemns the detention of Theepachelvan Piratheepan’s books and demands their immediate and unconditional release

Apr 27, 2026 2 months ago
Trump

Stop the impending Genocide — Before it is too late: Condemn Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iranian Civilisation

Emergency Statement by the Editorial Board of theSocialist.lk and the Socialist Lead of Sri Lank and South Asia (SLLA)

Apr 7, 2026 2 months ago
Banner

Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 28 March 2026

This political report for the week of March 22–28, 2026, is compiled by theSocialist.lk based on coverage from the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS).

Mar 31, 2026 2 months ago
Drone attack

Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 21 March 2026

This political report for the week of March 15-21, 2026, is compiled by thesocialist.lk based on coverage from the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS).

Mar 25, 2026 3 months ago
Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 14 March 2026

Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 14 March 2026

This political report for the week of March 8-14, 2026, is compiled based on coverage from the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS).

Mar 16, 2026 3 months ago
Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 7 March 2026

Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 7 March 2026

This political report for the week of March 1-7, 2026, is compiled based on coverage from the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org).

Mar 11, 2026 3 months ago
Aragalaya

The Gen-Z Uprisings and the Crisis of Leadership: Permanent Revolution against ‘Leaderless’ movements and ‘Left Populism’ – Part 4

By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The “leaderless” and “no politics” character of the Galle Face movement — celebrated in pseudo-left and liberal commentary as democratic spontaneity — performed in Sri Lanka the identical ideological function that Tufekci, Gerbaudo, and Mouffe perform in…

Mar 7, 2026 3 months ago
Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 28 February 2026

Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 28 February 2026

This political report for the week of February 22–28, 2026, is compiled based on coverage from the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org).

Mar 3, 2026 3 months ago
Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!

Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran!

Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (US) National Committee. The Socialist Equality Party and the International Committee of the Fourth International advance the following program in the fight against the criminal war on Iran:

Mar 2, 2026 3 months ago
The Gen-Z Uprisings and the Crisis of Leadership: Permanent Revolution against ‘Leaderless’ movements and ‘Left Populism’ – Part 3

The Gen-Z Uprisings and the Crisis of Leadership: Permanent Revolution against ‘Leaderless’ movements and ‘Left Populism’ – Part 3

By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The ISO’s promotion of “no politics” and “no leadership” served to create precisely the political vacuum the Democratic Party rushed to fill. The WSWS warned with prophetic accuracy: “Many of the groups involved in Wall Street demonstrations…

Feb 27, 2026 4 months ago
Demand the immediate release of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole!

Demand the immediate release of Communist Party Marxist-Kenya leader Booker Omole!

Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The turn to open repression in Kenya is being emboldened by the example set by would-be dictator Donald Trump in the United States. Thousands of armed ICE agents have been sent…

Feb 25, 2026 4 months ago
Metz

Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 21 February 2026

This political report for the week of February 15–21, 2026, is compiled based on coverage from the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org).

Feb 24, 2026 4 months ago
Supreme Court ruling against Trump tariffs exposes ruling class crisis

Supreme Court ruling against Trump tariffs exposes ruling class crisis

By John Burton. The Supreme Court has not, however, undergone a democratic awakening. The Court is, and remains, a pillar of the capitalist state. Its function is to uphold the property relations and class interests upon which the existing social…

Feb 24, 2026 4 months ago
White house

Political Report for the Week ending 07 February 2026

This political report for the week ending 07 February 2026 is compiled based on coverage from the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org).

Feb 8, 2026 4 months ago
Political Report for the Week ending 31 January 2026

Political Report for the Week ending 31 January 2026

Compiled by SocialismAI.com This report synthesises and analyses the main political, geopolitical and economic developments covered by the World Socialist Web Site in the week ending 31 January 2026. It locates events within the deeper dynamics of class struggle, imperialism…

Feb 1, 2026 4 months ago
Trump

Trump National Defense Strategy calls for US domination of Western Hemisphere

By Andre Damon. The document explicitly invokes 19th-century imperialism, noting that “our predecessors recognized that the United States must take a more powerful, leading role in hemispheric affairs” and that “it was this insight that gave rise to the Monroe…

Jan 27, 2026 5 months ago
Maduro

The Venezuela Invasion: A Turning Point in the Crisis of American Imperialism

By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The postwar institutions that once helped regulate inter-imperialist rivalry and provided a veneer of legitimacy for neocolonial extraction have become, under conditions of acute capitalist crisis, obstacles to plunder. That order has collapsed.

Jan 10, 2026 5 months ago
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