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The campaign against repression and war in Sri Lanka has gathered even more momentum.

London lobbies on Wednesday 31 January: Stop the killings! Put Mervyn Silva on trial! Hands off Siritunga Jaysuriya!

Hundreds of journalists and media workers from five Sri Lankan media organisations staged a joint protest at Colombo Fort railway station last Tuesday, 23 January, against the threats and intimidation against journalists and their frequent […]

Protest letters continue to bombard the office of the president of Sri Lanka following the brutal gangster attack on an anti-war meeting in Colombo.

The Trade Union Rights Campaign – Kashmir have been in the forefront of helping to organise solidarity for thousands of earthquake affected public sector workers in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).

Protests outside embassies and consulates.

Letters of strong protest from two of Ireland’s Socialist Party councillors:

Court reinstates sacked teachers’ union leaders

Demands for decent compensation and living conditions

Please draw up protests on the basis of the resolution for MPs (see below)

Government fails to solve the problems of the quake affected public sector workers.

Siritunga Jaysuriya of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and a handful of associates in the ‘United People’s Movement’ escaped with their lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided […]

TURCP campaigners and social rights activists condemn police inaction

The joint struggle of the Federal Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Hawkers Union forced the newspaper bosses to retreat from reducing the newspapers holidays from 8 to 6 days annually.

Troops were deployed throughout Bangladesh on Sunday 11 December supposedly to “maintain law and order”, according to a Presidential order.

The 15 day long tea plantation strike – the longest in recent history – is supposed to have come to an end.

There is again heated debate going on around the veil worn by Muslim women.

Three days before the congress of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) was convened in Colombo, a suicide bomb attack in the city targeted the minister of defence – the brother of the president, […]

Send urgent protests to stop demolitions and evictions!

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The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in his Heroes’ Day speech, has warned of an end to the cease-fire and of the ‘Tigers’ renewing their demand for independence.

More than 300 Trade Unionists in attendance

Twenty three arrested and held while devastation wrought

Trade Union Rights Campaign meeting attracts over 100 activists

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

Protests at the murder of prominent Tamil MP, Nadarajah Raviraj, continue to pour in to embassies around the world and directly to the office of the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse.

Thousands march in Colombo; embassies picketed around the globe

Rebels to give up arms and to enter new coalition government

High profile assassination demands massive response

Danger of army intervention

In February of this year, crowds gathered on the streets of Manila to commemorate the ‘People Power’ revolution of twenty years.

ON February 24, a Friday, the Philippine media reported an aborted coup d’etat allegedly launched by rebel military forces against the government of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The description of Sri Lanka as ‘tear-shaped’ has never been more apt than it is today.

cwi lobbies of Sri Lanka embassies in Stockholm and London

Reinstate 144 sacked leaders of teachers organisations

Around 3.5 million still ill-equipped, under- nourished and homeless

Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) meeting in Islamabad attracts 150 from different public sector trade unions

Send protests against state repression!

Quake survivors caught in limbo

Why is the Taliban resurgent?

Imperialist powers hypocritical condemnation

Women and children suffer most

Urgent international support needed!

"Life for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka has become unbearable."

Army suppresses democratic rights

For a fighting, democratic union!

Corporation connives with local authorities in forcible evictions

Repeal the anti-women ‘Hudood Ordinance’