The Sri Lankan United Socialist Party (USP) – affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International (cwi) – held its most successful ever congress on 25 – 26 March in Colombo.
Scandal of government ‘relief’ fuels social, political and national crisis
"Demonstrations are escalating. From yesterday morning until today, homeless people in the East of the Island occupied the main road from Ampara all the way up to Batticaloa.
The devastation and escalating death toll in the Indian Ocean region can leave no one unmoved.
The tragic devastation wreaked by the earthquake and tidal wave in the Indian Ocean has killed tens of thousands of people. In Sri Lanka alone, the death toll has reached 13,000 and is still rising.
The victory for the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in the parliamentary elections, followed by the provincial elections, has brought more problems instead of solving the burning crisis of the country. The UPFA – a […]
On Wednesday 7 July, a suicide bombing killed four police officers in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
On Saturday 10 July, the Provincial Council elections saw a much lower turn-out than usual.
United Socialist Party achieves record result
The president has prepared the ground for elections through several dramatic measures during the last few months. On 4 November she conducted a ’mini-coup’, taking command of three minister’s posts from the UNP government. On […]
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