Sri Lanka

Building a left alternative; link fight against regime with struggle of oppressed Tamils and system change

United Socialist Party makes election challenge

Anti-Tamil pogroms organised by ruling class

The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.

The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass Junction.

"Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s hidden war" by Frances Harrison

Development of Bodu Bala Sena must be stopped

Workers’ movement must take up their cause

’Thas’ granted asylum in Belgium

Sign on-line appeal

Memorial meeting remembers the great revolutionary who died in August 1940

Who killed Nimalaruban?

Arab revolutions, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Brazil…lessons from history and today’s struggles

War criminal on the run!

Tamils are outraged that Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been invited to the British queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations.

Third anniversary of slaughter of Tamil people by Sri Lankan army marked by protests all around the world

Socialist organisations march to joint rally

Committee for a Workers’ International representatives speak

Protest in response and release of the two shows potential for united struggle

Appeal for international protests

A blow to the regime but not enough

Amnesty international and the British Channel 4 television channel reveal new material documenting the unpunished slaughter and ongoing oppression of Tamil people

Full inquiries moved by Paul Murphy MEP and agreed

Tamil Solidarity demands that Cameron reveals all his personal dealings with lobbying firm and show the concrete details of the measures he has taken in relation to war crimes in Sri Lanka

“Difficult times – yet we are defiant and determined!”

British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble

International protest demands end of death penalty against Tamil activists

Rajapakse regime shoots peaceful workers

Tamil representatives, solidarity and human rights campaigns and individual activists converged on the European parliament on Wednesday (1 June)

Tamil Solidarity exposes the arrogant way Rajapaksa answers the UN report

The CWI supports the struggle of Tamil Solidarity and others for the rights of all workers and oppressed people in Sri Lanka.

Socialist Party MEP speaks

What is the way forward now?

The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka, which ended in May 2009, has created more than 68,000 widows. On the other hand, there are another 30,000 widows in the southern part […]

Tamil people’s struggle for freedon and justice – beyond our borders

Sri Lanka has once again lived up to its reputation as one of the most dangerous places for a journalist to work

United Socialist Party and the fight for democratic rights

‘Death of Democracy’ in Sri Lanka

A CONSTANT stream of Tamils flowed into Parliament Square, London, on Tuesday 18 May.

Consolidation of chauvinism – mass opposition needed

Perspective for united struggle

Fight to stop dictatorship cannot be postponed

Grim period ahead for workers and poor.

A courageous record fighting repression and ethnic division

United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) campaign continues

Tamil solidarity case forcefully put by Tamil Solidarity coordinator

Socialist runs with clear alternative to “choice of death by machete or death by axe”

Candidate for United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) writes to British press