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LTTE Crimes and State War Crimes: A Political Clarification on our Position
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. Therefore, what matters to us is not aligning lists of crimes to demonstrate that “both sides are morally wrong.” The most important matter is not the moral question but the political question. Morally speaking, all these crimes…
We demand immediate and unconditional release of Bogdan Syrotiuk: Overturn the Fascist Verdict!
Statement by SLLA. The Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA), fighting among the working class and youth to build the revolutionary leadership in South Asia, in solidarity with the international socialist perspective of the International Committee of…
The Defence of Muslim Health Workers’ Rights and the Dead End of Bourgeois Nationalism of Ethnic Minorities
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The position of the working class on this question is clear. Muslim nurses have the democratic right to wear the headscarf as part of their professional attire. The campaign to strip them of this right is not…
Fascist Ukrainian court sentences Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of war, to 15 years in prison
WSWS Editorial Board. On August 10, Bogdan Syrotiuk, a 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist and opponent of the US-NATO war against Russia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The verdict, handed down by a district court in the Nikolaev region, also…
CIMP Bill: Why We are Intervening in the FMM Forum — An Independent Class Line for Press Freedom
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. Our participation in this event may draw questions from journalists, workers, and youth as to why a representative of the revolutionary socialist-internationalist movement is sharing a platform with a right-wing strategist of the capitalist establishment and a…
The Singer Owns Nothing: Sri Lanka’s Copyright Act and the Logic of Capitalist Property in Art
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The voice that gave the song its soul has no claim. The law can grasp what is fixed on paper — notation, words — as property. What is embodied in performance — the timbre, the phrasing, the…
Outside the Prison Walls: The Mahara Prison Riot and the Rise of Fascistic Ideology in Sri Lanka
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The calls to shoot prisoners in the head did not emerge from nowhere. They are the latest expression of an ideological trajectory that can be traced with precision.
The Negombo Prison Massacre: Class Violence and the Capitalist State in Sri Lanka
By the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA) This is not a malfunction of the system. It is the system functioning exactly as designed. The state maintains conditions of deliberate, calculated brutality so that when the inevitable…
Oppose Communally Driven State-Sponsored Demographic Engineering in the North and East of Sri Lanka: The Way Forward
By Sanjaya Jayasekera, Member, the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA). The policies of demographic engineering have not promoted unity between Tamil and Sinhala workers. They have deepened mistrust and communal division. This serves the interests of…
The Betrayal of the Pen: Defeat the Reactionary Attitude of Journalists who welcome the CIMP Bill
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. Rather than recognizing the bill as a direct assault on their own democratic rights, a significant layer of established media professionals has greeted it as an opportunity for personal advancement. They see in the Chartered Institute not…
The Dissanayake Government’s “Chartered Institute of Media Professionals”: A Blueprint for the Strangulation of Press Freedom
Statement by the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA). These provisions convert the fundamental democratic right of freedom of expression into a state-sanctioned privilege. The government positions itself as the ultimate arbiter of who may enroll, register,…
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…
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…
“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…
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
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)
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).
Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 21 March 2026
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Weekly Political Report — Week Ending 14 March 2026
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