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“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…
The fight for principles and leadership of the working class: How SEP-SL bureaucracy expelled revolutionaries
By Sanjaya Jayasekera The leadership of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) – Sri Lanka recently (06 May) released three documents officially announcing that it has expelled two of its leading comrades, Nandana Nannetti and Sanjaya Jayasekera from the Party, almost…
A reply to SEP-SL General Secretary, Deepal Jayasekara: The struggle of the SEP left faction
By Nandana Nannetti The Socialist Equality Party, Sri Lanka, released three special documents on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) (Sinhala) last Friday, 06 May 2023. They are about the expulsion of the two comrades who worked in the leadership…
SEP-SL bureaucracy promotes backwardness and hostility to principles
Months after the politurbo of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) Sri Lanka expelled Comrades Nandana Nanneththi and Sanjaya Jayasekera from the Party, the Party leadership has, on 06 May 2023, released, along with the statement posted below, two other documents in…
May Day 2023: Build IWA-RFC, Stop World War!
By Colombo Action Committee This May Day is celebrated by the working class all over the world, in the midst of the great danger of an emerging World War III – a nuclear war threatening a mass extinction – and…
Defeat the reactionary policy against the struggle for action committees!
By Colombo Action Committee The letter published here was sent by the Colombo Action Committee to the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Comrade Deepal Jayasekara and the editor of the Sinhala section of the World Socialist Web…
IMF approves Sri Lanka bailout package
Colombo Action Committee. By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on Monday (20) the 48‑month extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with an amount of SDR 2.286 billion [395 percent of quota…
The ‘general strike’ of March 15 and bankrupt trade unionism
Colombo Action Committee Yesterday (15) public sector workers and professionals including doctors across the island went on strike and protested against the government’s new tax levy, interest rate hike and electricity tariff hike and other attacks. Thousands of public office…
Wickremesinghe calls for a military discipline society
Addressing in a ceremony held yesterday (19) at Rantambe National Cadet Training Centre for the awarding ‘Colours’ to the National Cadet Corps, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has stated, “to take on the future requires discipline and commitment”. “The people needed for…