Articles by Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)

On Saturday 29 March, a massive demonstration in Maltepe, Istanbul, saw over a million people take to the streets after days of protests and mass arrests. Even approaching the protest, determined anger was clear on […]

Below are three reports of recent successes won by Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) members in union elections.   Victory for socialist Marco Tesei in University and College Union Left must organise to fight […]

On September 29 in 2024 parliamentary elections took place in Austria. But it was not until March 2025 that a new government was formed. It took three separate negotiating attempts before it could be formed: […]

The election of Trump as US president is accelerating the already existing trends towards global economic recession, multi-national polarity in geopolitical relations and increasing military tensions. Despite being elected promising to disengage US involvement in […]

Defeat MAGAnomics, Fight for Socialism Into the second month of the Trump administration, the media is saturated with headlines and stories tracking the flurry of maneuvers, drama, and rumors around the White House, Elon Musk, […]

Employment Rights Bill: Unions must fight to strengthen workers’ rights Trade union leaders have been lining up to extol the Labour government’s Employment Rights Bill, as secretary of state for business and trade Jonathan Reynolds […]

What position should socialists take? On 1 March, in response to the row between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, the national executive of the Left Party passed a resolution that is, unfortunately, analytically wrong and […]

Looking around the world on International Women’s Day 2025 it would seem that women’s rights are under attack more than ever before in almost every part of the globe. Poverty, inequality, war and environmental destruction […]