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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…
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…
Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party regime expels seven more members from the Party
Statement of the SEP-SL Left Faction Extending their bureaucratic policy of “purge”, the leadership of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Sri Lanka has announced the expulsion of 07 more members from the Party. The respective members have been informed through…
Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party regime expels seven more members from the Party
Statement of the SEP-SL Left Faction Extending their bureaucratic policy of “purge”, the leadership of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Sri Lanka has announced the expulsion of 07 more members from the Party. The respective members have been informed through…
“Layattu Koligal” (Estate Hens) – an artwork recreating the lives of workers
By Nandana Nanneththi Script, Direction and Music by: R Loganandan KCostumes and Makeup: Selvaraj Lilavati Drama Material: M. Navaneethan Production: Theater Mates Culture Association, Kotiyagala “Layattu Koligal” is a drama embodying the lives and struggle of estate workers, and is…
Free Julian Assange! Journalist pressures Australian government at a Colombo meeting
Our Correspondent Yesterday (21) one journalist stood alone in expressing his protest against Australian government and took it opportunity to demand that government’s intervention to secure the release of the witch-hunted journalist Julian Assange, when the Australian High Commissioner (HC)…
Contempt of court law: Sri Lanka Government wages war against people’s freedom of expression
By Sanjaya Jayasekera As part of a larger onslaught on democratic rights, Sri Lanka government of President Ranil Wickremasinghe is waging a war against free expression of the masses, specifically targeting print and digital media and online platforms. The latest…
SEP-SL Assistant Secretary Condemns the CAC Campaign for Freedom of Art and Expression
By Nandana Nannetti On June 17, the Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Sri Lanka, Comrade Saman Gunadasa participated in the online (Zoom) meeting held by the Colombo Action Committee (CAC). The meeting was organized to clarify the…