The sympathetic attitude of the security forces towards the racialist mob contrasts with their violent methods in dealing with protests and strikes by workers, youth and the rural poor.
President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government is increasingly using the judiciary and other state institutions to break strikes, assisted by the complicity of the trade unions.
The SEP and ISSE warned that the detention of Tamil youth by the Sri Lankan government is part of a wider assault on the democratic rights of workers and youth.
The latest removals are part of a broader government plan to evict about 75,000 families in a bid to transform Colombo into a South Asian business hub.
The Rajapakse government has sped up its drive to evict 66,000 families and clear large areas of the capital in order to benefit developers, boost tourism and transform the city into a business hub for the Asian region.
This photo essay records the devastation caused by a quarter century of civil war in Sri Lanka and the plight facing hundreds of thousands of refugees.
The government has taken another unprecedented step in the militarisation of society by imposing military “leadership training” for all university students.
The Rajapakse government’s reference to an “insurgency”—without the slightest evidence—is a warning to students of the police-state methods that will be used against any opposition to university privatisation.
The Historical and International Foundations of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)
The founding congress of the SEP in Sri Lanka took place in Colombo on May 27-29, adopting a perspectives resolution that reviews the key strategic experiences of the struggle for Trotskyism in the Indian subcontinent.
This photo essay records the devastation caused by a quarter century of civil war in Sri Lanka and the plight facing hundreds of thousands of refugees.