Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan nurses campaign for improved safety
By Vilani Peiris, July 30, 2009
Nurses at the Cancer Hospital in Maharagama have been campaigning in support colleagues in the chemotherapy unit who want improvements to basic safety.
After delay, IMF approves loan for Sri Lanka
By Saman Gunadasa, July 28, 2009
Last Friday the IMF finally approved a $2.6 billon loan to Sri Lanka. Contrary to IMF and Colombo government claims, the funds will not bring economic recovery.
Sri Lankan workers hard hit by export downturn
By our correspondents, July 27, 2009
The Katunayake Free Trade Zone has been badly affected by the world recession. Several factories have closed, jobs are uncertain in many other plants, and pay and working hours have been cut in most f...
Sri Lankan prime minister denounces newspaper lawyers as “traitors”
By our reporter, July 25, 2009
The Sri Lankan prime minister made an extraordinary statement in parliament on July 21, branding five lawyers as “traitors” because they had appeared for the Sunday Leader in a defamation case fil...
Sri Lankan power workers demand higher wages
By W. A Sunil, July 23, 2009
Thousands of Sri Lankan power workers held a one-day national protest on July 17 to defend benefits and demand higher wages. The struggle is part of the growing opposition of working people to governm...
Sri Lankan SEP holds successful public meeting in Jaffna
By our correspondents, July 21, 2009
The SEP held a public meeting on “The World Economic Crisis and Imperialist Aggression” last Saturday in Jaffna, the military-occupied capital of northern Sri Lanka. Nearly 60 people attended, inc...
Sri Lankan government in desperate bid to win local elections
By M. Vasanthan, July 20, 2009
Sri Lankan government ministers have travelled to Jaffna town in recent weeks in an effort to boost the chances of the ruling UPFA in next month’s local council elections.
Sri Lankan president postpones “political solution” with Tamil elite
By Wjie Dias, July 18, 2009
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has told an Indian newspaper that a promised deal with sections of the Tamil elite would not be announced until after he was elected for a second presidential te...
Sri Lankan university students demand better facilities
By Suranga Siriwardena and Kapila Fernando, July 17, 2009
Sabaragamuwa University students launched a protest campaign against the lack of basic facilities, reflecting the growing opposition among students and working people to the government’s attacks on ...
Sri Lankan government coerces detained doctors to recant war casualty figures
By Nanda Wickremasinghe, July 16, 2009
Sri Lankan government brought five detained doctors to a press conference to recant their previous eye-witness accounts of the military’s shelling and killing of Tamil civilians.
The World Economic Crisis and Imperialist Aggression
Sri Lanka: SEP/WSWS to hold a public meeting in Jaffna
July 14, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party and the World Socialist Web Site will hold a public meeting in Jaffna, the capital of northern Sri Lanka, to discuss the “The World Economic Crisis and Imperialist Aggre...
Sri Lankan export zone workers hit by job and pay cuts
By Saman Gunadasa, July 14, 2009
With tens of thousands of workers losing their jobs in Sri Lanka, workers at the Biyagama Export Processing Zone discussed their experiences with the WSWS.
