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Sri Lanka: Military discipline for university students
By Panini Wijesiriwardena, January 24, 2011
The government has taken another unprecedented step in the militarisation of society by imposing military “leadership training” for all university students.
Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha, a Sri Lankan Trotskyist, dies at 67
By Socialist Equality Party, September 6, 2010
It is with a great sense of loss that we report the untimely death of comrade Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha, a member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), the Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). Piyaseeli was a lifelong Trotskyist, a Marxist scholar, and fighte
Sri Lankan election: Vote for the Socialist Equality Party
By Socialist Equality Party, April 8, 2010
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) calls on workers, young people, intellectuals and the rural poor to vote for its candidates in the general election being held today.
Sri Lankan government campaigns to entrench autocratic powers
By Vilani Peiris, SEP candidate for Colombo district, April 5, 2010
The ruling coalition’s central aim in the April 8 election is to gain a two-thirds majority so it can change the constitution and establish “a strong government”.
“Rajapakse’s era not golden for us”—Sri Lankan plantation workers
By Panini Wijesiriwardena, April 3, 2010
WSWS reporters visiting tea plantation areas found deep hostility toward the Rajapakse government and widespread disgust with all the parties and trade unions that have dominated Sri Lankan politics for decades.
Final SEP election meeting in Colombo on January 23
January 21, 2010
The SEP candidate Wije Dias is the only one who is advancing a socialist perspective to defend the democratic rights and living standards of working people.
Sri Lanka: SEP candidate addresses plantation workers
By our correspondent, January 13, 2010
SEP presidential candidate Wije Dias explained that a new period of great class struggles was opening up and workers had to prepare by learning the lessons of the previous strategic experiences of the working class.
Sri Lanka elections: SEP campaigns for Hatton meeting
By our correspondents, January 13, 2010
SEP members and supporters visited estate workers and youth to campaign for the party’s election meeting in Hatton, a town in the island’s central plantation districts.
Sri Lankan unions rally behind presidential candidates of ruling elite
By S. Ajanthan, December 14, 2009
The anti-working class character of the plantation unions in Sri Lanka has been underscored by the campaign for the January 26 presidential elections.
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 Lankan SEP to hold election meeting in Galle
September 29, 2009
As a part of its campaign for the Southern Provincial Council elections, the SEP will hold a public meeting in the provincial capital of Galle on Sunday, October 4.
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 for the Galle district.
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