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War, inequality and dictatorship: The critical issues excluded from the 2024 election
By WSWS Editorial Board. The 2024 US presidential election is unfolding under conditions of unprecedented crisis and social breakdown. There is a pervasive sense that the political system is dysfunctional, incapable of responding to the needs of the people and…
IMF runs into deepening debt crisis and contradictions of global capitalism
By Nick Beams. The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has given a downbeat assessment of the global economy in her curtain raiser speech for its meetings, held together with the World Bank, this week. She began…
Petty-bourgeois Nationalism versus Internationalism: The struggle for the historical continuity of Bolshevism and resolving the crisis of proletarian leadership
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. For Zionist imperialists, the history began on October 07, 2023, and the brutal oppression of Palestinians for 75 years is simply obliterated. Drawing an analogy, for Comrade Nandana Nanneththi, according to his diatribe of October 08, 2024,…
Vote for the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka: Advance the International Socialist Program of the ICFI
Statement of the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA), the Revolutionary Left Faction of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) of Sri Lanka. The global capitalist crisis and its manifestation in Sri Lanka and South Asia The Global…
Free Bogdan Zyrotyuk, arrested by the fascistic Ukrainian regime!
May 31, 2024, Editorial statement of theSocialist.lk The leader of the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists (YGBL), a Socialist, Trotskyist organization operating in Ukraine, Russia and the former Soviet Union, was arrested on April 25 by the SBU – the…
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…