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Sri Lankan public meeting: Lessons of the plantation workers’ struggle

November 5, 2009

The Socialist Equality Party and the Balmoral Action Committee will hold a joint meeting on November 15 at Agarapathana in Sri Lanka’s central hills district.

Sri Lanka: SEP election team campaigns among cinnamon peelers

By Ratnasiri Malalagama and Panini Wijesiriwardane, October 3, 2009

Cinnamon workers and small producers are among poorest section of the rural population in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan provincial election

SEP campaigns among Free Trade Zone workers

By Panini Wijesiriwardena, September 19, 2009

As part of its campaign for the Southern Provincial Council elections on October 10, the SEP spoke to workers from the Koggala Free Trade Zone near Galle. The SEP is standing a slate of 26 candidates ...

Sri Lankan SEP holds first meeting for Southern Provincial Council election

By our correspondents, September 17, 2009

Sri Lankan SEP launched its campaign for Southern Provincial Council elections with a public meeting in the coastal town Ambalangoda.

SEP holds election meeting in Sri Lankan plantation district

By our reporters, January 27, 2009

The Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka held the first public meeting of its provincial election campaign at Hatton in the Nuwara Eliya district on January 17.

SEP and ISSE public lecture in Sri Lanka

World economic crisis and the perspective of Marxism

January 13, 2009

The Socialist Equality Party and the International Students for Social Equality in Sri Lanka are holding a public lecture to discuss impact of the global financial crisis and its revolutionary implica...

SEP-ISSE meeting in Sri Lanka

A socialist program to oppose war and its economic burdens

November 2, 2007

The Socialist Equality Party and International Students for Social Equality are holding a public meeting on November 13 to oppose Sri Lanka’s intensifying civil war, the economic burdens being i...

Sri Lankan navy commander stonewalls inquiry into disappearance of SEP member

By our correspondents, August 17, 2007

In a disturbing new development in the disappearance of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Nadarajah Wimaleswaran and his friend, Sivanathan Mathivathanan, in northern Sri Lanka, a navy commander h...

Sri Lanka: Police stall in Human Rights Commission inquiry into disappearance of SEP member

By our correspondent, July 27, 2007

The latest Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (HRC) hearing into the disappearance of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member, Nadarajah Wimaleswaran, and his friend, Sivanathan Mathivathanan, has again ...

Sri Lankan court case exposes police investigation into missing SEP member

By our correspondent, May 28, 2007

Two months have passed since the disappearance of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member, Wimaleswaran Nadarajah and his friend, Sivanathan Mathivathanan. Despite the demands of the SEP and protest let...

Resolution adopted by the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War on the disappearance of SEP member in Sri Lanka

April 6, 2007

On March 22, Socialist Equality Party member Nadarajah Wimaleswaran and his friend Sivanathan Mathivathanan disappeared while traveling between two naval roadblocks in northern Sri Lanka. Two weeks af...

Sri Lankan authorities continue to stall over disappearance of SEP member

By our correspondent, April 5, 2007

The lack of any action by Sri Lankan security forces to locate Socialist Equality Party (SEP) member Nadarajah Wimaleswaran and his friend, Sivanathan Mathivathanan, raises serious concerns about thei...