Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Reject wage sell-out by plantation unions
By W.A Sunil, September 15, 2009
The union agreement is in effect a substantial wage cut, as the agreed increase does not even compensate workers for the 55 percent rise in the official cost-of-living since the last agreement in Marc...
Sri Lankan government expels UNICEF spokesman
By Sarath Kumara, September 11, 2009
The Sri Lankan government has expelled UNICEF’s spokesman in Colombo in a crude attempt to cover up its war crimes and hide the squalid conditions in which Tamil civilians are being detained.
Sri Lankan government opens up captured territory for investors
By Sampath Perera, September 10, 2009
Since the defeat of the LTTE in May, the Sri Lankan government has pressed ahead with extensive plans to attract foreign investors and set up Special Economic Zones inside captured rebel territory.
A socialist program for Sri Lankan plantation workers
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), September 9, 2009
The SEP warns plantation workers that the trade unions are preparing to impose a poverty-level wage deal in collaboration with employers and the government. Workers need to mobilise independently to d...
Sri Lankan police detain three JVP journalists
By W.A Sunil, September 8, 2009
Sri Lankan police have arrested three journalists from Lanka, a Sinhala weekly, under the country’s draconian emergency laws.
Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to launch election campaign
September 7, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Students for Social Equality will hold a public meeting in the coastal town of Ambalangoda.
Sri Lankan SEP stands in the Southern Provincial Council election
By Socialist Equality Party, September 5, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party is contesting the Southern Provincial Council elections to campaign for an end to the military occupation of the North and East, the defence of democratic rights and a soc...
Tamil journalist sentenced to 20 years jail by Sri Lankan court
By Deepal Jayasekera, September 2, 2009
In a major attack on democratic rights, Tamil journalist J.S. Tissanayagam was sentenced to 20 years of hard labour on Monday under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and emergency regulations.
Sri Lankan power workers strike for pay increase
By W.A. Sunil, August 31, 2009
Thousands of Ceylon Electricity Board workers took part in an islandwide, one-day strike last Friday to demand a 40 percent pay hike, the restoration of working conditions and the scrapping of the rec...
Video evidence of Sri Lankan government war crimes
By Sarath Kumara, August 29, 2009
A grisly video of Sri Lankan soldiers executing naked, bound and blindfolded men in cold blood provides further first-hand evidence of the war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government and militar...
Sri Lankan government to impose onerous restrictions on political parties
By Nanda Wickremasinghe, August 28, 2009
The Sri Lankan government has announced legislation to impose tough new restrictions on political parties.
Union calls off protest by unemployed graduates in Sri Lanka
By Kapila Fernando, August 27, 2009
A 17-day protest by unemployed university graduates was shut down last week after their union accepted vague government assurances that they would get jobs.
