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Dollar’s role as global reserve currency under fire
By Nick Beams. Contrary to the claims of various bourgeois economists and not a few self-styled Marxists that the post-war economic capitalism boom which followed had refuted the Marxist analysis of the historically inevitable economic breakdown of the capitalist system,…
The Myth of Common Guilt: ‘Rani‘ as Perversion of Truth in the Form of Art
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The capitalist state agents of terror, its political leadership, the military-intelligence apparatus, and the misdirected cadre of the JVP are equated, and these contradictory forces are placed on the same grounds as the poor and the working…
Batalanda Slaughter Chambers and the Mass Graves: The class roots of crimes against the poor and the working class of Sri Lanka
By Sanjaya Jayasekera. The realization of these demands requires direct political power to the hands of the working class. The ruling class—regardless of which party holds office, including NPP—will never willingly prosecute its own agents. The fight for truth and…
The Fight for the Historical Continuity of Bolshevism: The ICFI as the Political Expression of Socialist Internationalism in the 21st Century
By the Political Committee of the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA), the Revolutionary Left Faction (RLF) of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) of Sri Lanka. The ICFI remains the only Marxist organization that fights for a…
Fed launches probe into expanding private credit market
Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008, market analysts, regulators and media commentators have been pondering the question of what might be the next sub-prime. The crisis in the US sub-prime mortgage market was the trigger for the 2008…
Sri Lanka’s ruling NPP secures a strong parliamentary majority to enforce IMF dictates: Build the SEP to fight the cuts!
Statement of the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA), the Revolutionary Left Faction (RLF) of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s general election concluded with a landslide victory for the ruling National People’s…
Trump assembles cabinet of fascist repression and imperialist war
By Patrick Martin The two priorities of the incoming administration are preparing for war with China and arresting and deporting millions of migrants. In a rapid-fire series of appointments and announcements, fascist President-elect Donald Trump is assembling an administration in…
Opportunism and Empiricism: A Prelude
From the Theoretical arsenal of the ICFI. Opportunism and Empiricism by Cliff Slaughter. By Sanjaya Jayasekera. We invite our readers and comrades of the Trotskyist movement to study one of the most valued pieces of theoretical contributions in the literature…
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…