Sri Lanka
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.
Sri Lanka: Detention of Tamil civilians to continue indefinitely
By Sampath Perera, August 22, 2009
Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse reiterated on Monday that up to 300,000 Tamil civilians who fled the fighting in the final days of the country’s protracted civil war will remain inc...
Sri Lanka: Police state measures against nurses
By Vilani Peiris, August 20, 2009
The Sri Lankan government’s use of police state methods against the nurses at the Cancer Hospital in Maharagama, south of Colombo, is a warning to the entire working class.
Sri Lanka: Thousands protest against police killings
By W. A. Sunil, August 18, 2009
The murders are the latest police atrocity in President Mahinda Rajapakse’s fraudulent “war against the underworld.”
Sri Lanka kidnaps LTTE leader
By Sarath Kumara, August 15, 2009
Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives last week seized the newly appointed leader of the separatist LTTE, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, in South East Asia and flew him back Colombo.
Massive abstention in Sri Lankan local elections
By Deepal Jayasekera, August 12, 2009
The outcome of two local elections in the northern towns of Jaffna and Vavuniya reflected the profound alienation of the island’s Tamil minority from the government and the various Tamil parties.
Sri Lanka: Jaffna University students speak to WSWS
By Subash Somachandran, August 11, 2009
Jaffna University students and staff recently spoke with WSWS correspondents over the run-down state of the campus, its desperate lack of basic facilities and the ongoing military repression.
Unions isolate Sri Lankan nurses’ campaign for safety measures
By Vilani Peiris, August 8, 2009
Utilising the military and the police, the Sri Lankan government has stepped up its efforts to crush a chemotherapy nurses’ campaign for critical safety measures.
Sri Lankan plantation unions undermine workers’ pay
By S. Ajanthan, August 7, 2009
Amid the global economic downturn, Sri Lankan plantation trade unions are collaborating with employers in pay negotiations to keep the income of hundreds of thousands of tea, rubber and coconut worker...
Sri Lankan government stalls on release of Tamil detainees
By Sarath Kumara, August 4, 2009
The Sri Lankan government continues to detain nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians despite growing anger inside the country, particularly among the Tamil minority.
Sri Lanka: ISSE-SEP meeting in Colombo on Karl Marx and Charles Darwin
August 1, 2009
The ISSE and the SEP in Sri Lanka are holding a public meeting on the contributions of two great revolutionary thinkers of the 19th century—Karl Marx and Charles Darwin.
Sri Lanka: A phony debate on university privatisation
By Panini Wijesiriwardane and Sujeewa Amaranath, July 31, 2009
The IUSF staged the debate in order to posture as opponents of university privatisation and to contain the growing opposition among students. However, as the debate demonstrated, the IUSF has no answe...
