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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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).

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).

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

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

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…

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

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:

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…

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…

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

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…