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Sri Lankan opposition party backs Colombo slum evictions

By Vilani Peiris, December 19, 2011

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.

JVP dissidents in Sri Lanka: a new political trap

By K. Ratnayake, November 19, 2011

The JVP critics are desperately attempting to prevent a further erosion of the party’s standing among workers and youth disgusted with its repeated betrayals and foul communal politics.

Sri Lankan SEP campaign to release political prisoners: Plantation detainee and relatives speak to WSWS

By M. Vasanthan, October 29, 2011

Political prisoners and their parents in the central plantation areas of Sri Lanka denounced the parliamentary parties and trade unions for doing nothing to free detainees.

Sri Lanka: JVP heading for another split

By K. Ratnayake, October 14, 2011

Amid signs of developing struggles of the working class in Sri Lanka and internationally, the emergence of a dissident faction in the JVP is a desperate attempt to breathe life back into a political corpse.

Unite the working class to defend public education!

By Statement Socialist Equality Party (US), September 29, 2011

This statement will be distributed to teachers and students in the United States, who returned to school this month under conditions of an all-out assault on public education.

Julie Hyland addresses Berlin election campaign rally

By Julie Hyland, September 23, 2011

On September 17, the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party—PSG) held a European workers rally against racism, war and social cutbacks at the conclusion of the party’s election campaign in Berlin.

The Wisconsin recall election

By Jerry White, August 12, 2011

The central lesson that emerges from the experience of the Wisconsin protests is the need for a revolutionary party and perspective to lead the struggles of the working class.

Opening meeting of the SEP election campaign in Berlin

By our reporter, August 10, 2011

The German Socialist Equality Party held a meeting last Saturday in Berlin as it begins the most intensive phase of the current election campaign.

The debt limit deal and the social counterrevolution in America

By Barry Grey, August 2, 2011

The agreement reached by the Obama administration and Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to raise the federal debt limit marks a turning point in the class struggle in the United States.

SEP holds meeting in Berlin

Greece and the euro crisis

By a correspondent, July 20, 2011

At a meeting in Berlin last Saturday the chairman of the German Socialist Equality Party described the threat of the default by Greece as an expression of the global crisis of capitalism.

The International Socialist Organization’s perspective in tatters

By David Walsh, July 18, 2011

The International Socialist Organization (ISO) posted an editorial July 13 on the subject of Barack Obama’s proposal for massive budget cuts, referring to those who aroused expectations in Obama.

Obama’s budget summit

By Barry Grey, July 7, 2011

Today's White House summit between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders of both parties is part of a stage-managed charade behind which a bipartisan plan is being worked out to dismantle large parts of social programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.