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Demand the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk, socialist opponent of NATO’s proxy war, from a Ukrainian prison
David North@davidnorthwsws 30 April 2024 On Thursday, April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk—a socialist opponent of the fascistic Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war—was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine.…
An election for the billionaires
By Patrick Martin There are two presidential elections taking place in the United States in 2024. The voting by the American population, which culminates on Election Day on November 5, will receive the bulk of the media attention. Far more…
The underworld, the fraud called ‘Operation Justice’, and public security
By Nandana Nannetti. “If they don’t stop drug trafficking, we have to go find them. If there is a conflict, they will have to be killed,” Public Security Minister Tiran Alas reiterated in a meeting held in Jaffna about the…
The Colombo Action Committee against State Repression and the Practice of Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka
By Nandana Nannetti. On February 29, the Sinhala section of the World Socialist Web Site had published an article under the title, “Police claim one cannot be allowed to humiliate them through pamphlets, and pounce upon the Colombo Action Committee.”…
Defeat the State Terror called “Operation Yukthiya” against oppressed youth and the masses
Statement of the Colombo Action Committee for People’s Struggles It is already clear that the state terror unleashed in the name of Operation Yukthiya is one way the government is intensifying its repression against the youth and the rest of…
Stop-Gaza-Genocide Petition calls on working people of Sri Lanka and internationaly to fight Zionism and Imperialism
By the Executive Committee of the CACPS and the Editorial Board of theSocialist.LK “The death toll in Gaza is staggering. More than 30,000 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in just 150 days; 5% of the population is dead, injured or…
Sri Lanka Police harass Colombo Action Committee members and seize campaign material
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. Sri Lanka police today questioned one comrade of Colombo Action Committee (CACPS) and later in the day took into custody its campaign material upon a court order. CACPS members were engaging in a leaflet distribution campaign today…
Sri Lanka government enacts social media crackdown law, tables new anti-terrorism law
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. Sri Lanka Speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena last Thursday (01) signed into law the Online Safety Act (No 09 of 2024) (OSA), a piece of legislation long prepared by the ruling class to crack down upon freedom of…
Towards a Socialist United States of Sri Lanka and Eelam: A Response to the problem of Tamil Students of Jaffna
By Nandana Nanneththi. The Sinhala section of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) reported recently that a group of Jaffna University students raised the following question to the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) of Sri Lanka: “There is a widespread global…
Sri Lanka’s proposed anti-terrorism law does not meet the threshold of democratic quality, poet Ahnaf Jazeem petitions the Supreme Court
By Sanjaya Jayasekera This week, poet Ahnaf Jazeem, a former victim of Sri Lanka’s draconian terrorism law, filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the government’s proposed new Anti-Terrorism Bill. This new law is to replace the existing Prevention…
The US/UK attack on Yemen and the global eruption of imperialist war
Statement of the WSWS International Editorial Board We post below the Statement of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, published in WSWS.org on January 13, 2024. We, theSocialist.LK endorse this statement in its entirety and invite our readers…
The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism, and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution
Statement of the WSWS International Editorial Board We post below the First Part of the Statement of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board, published in WSWS.org on January 03, 2024. The statement contains four parts. Please access here…
Denounce the Trade Union leaders’ thuggery against the members of Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party
Statement of the Colombo Action Committee The Colombo Action Committee (CACPS) vehemently denounces the physical attack unleashed on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Dehin Wasantha and Lakshman Fernando, by the President and Secretary of the Moratuwa…
Poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem, victim of Sri Lanka government racist campaign, acquitted
By Sanjaya Jayasekera The High Court of Puttalam last Tuesday (12) acquitted poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem of the charge against him framed under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), three and half years after his wrongful arrest. The acquittal…
Public Meeting: Stop Zionist-Imperialist Genocide against the Palestinian Oppressed!
Colombo Action Committee & theSocialist.LK The Colombo Action Committee (CAC) and theSocialist.LK will hold a public meeting on November 19, at 19:15 hrs [Sri Lanka Time] to call upon and mobilize the working class in Sri Lanka, in Israel and…
Defend the people of Palestine against Zionism!
For a United Socialist State of Jewish-Arabic working classes opposed to the dual state-ruse of the imperialists! Statement of the Colombo Action Committee We demand to immediately stop the Israel Emergency Unity Government’s genocide carried out by air and missile…
Stop Israeli genocide!
By David North The following statement appeared originally on X/Twitter. A crime of monumental dimensions, comparable to those committed by the Nazis, is now unfolding before the eyes of the world. More than two million people are being deliberately subjected to…
Caricature of Reporting: How the WSWS Sri Lanka correspondents reported the EPF protest in Colombo
By Nandana Nanneththi. “The report published on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on September 1, under the title “Over 1000 workers protest in Colombo against Sri Lanka government’s attacks’, has yet again demonstrated the gross negligence of the Sri…
In defence of SEP: The call to build on historical lessons of the Trotskyist movement for intra-party democracy
By Nihal Gikianage for SEP-SL Left Faction The letter posted below was sent on October 28, 2022 by the comrades of the Left Faction of Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Chilaw branch, to its General Secretary Deepal Jayasekara, to…
In defence of SEP: Countering the purge of Comrade Amaratunga from Ambalangoda Local
By L.P. Udayaprema, for SEP-SL Left Faction The letter posted below was sent on November 16, 2022 by Comrade Udayaprema of the Ambalangoda branch of the Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party (SEP) to its General Secretary Deepal Jayasekara to defend…