SRI LANKA: WHERE NOW?
A Workers’ International Network meeting July 2022 SRI LANKA: WHERE NOW? A Workers’ International Network meeting July 2022 - YouTube The recent spectacular uprising in Sri Lanka has succeeded in its specific initial goal. The hated incumbent president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has at last been chased out of office … but only to be replaced by his equally reviled hand-picked accomplice Ranil … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA CALL TO ACTION!
ACTION PROGRAMME - SOCIALIST PEOPLE’S FORUM OF SRI LANKA On 9th July the workers, peasants, students and millions of oppressed peoples of Sri Lanka showed our united power. The corrupt political elite and their capitalist paymasters trembled. The dictator Rajapaksa fled for his life. A brighter future was there for the taking. Now the politicians are desperately clinging on to their … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA IN TURMOIL
with P.D. Saranapala a veteran of the 1980 general strike, leader of the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka, secretary of the Government United Management Assistance Union, and treasurer of the Socialist People’s Forum, along with other local activists. Two months after WIN’s last meeting on the current catastrophe in Sri Lanka, there has been absolutely no respite. The last remaining foreign … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA IN CRISIS – WIN STATEMENT 15 MAY 2022
Repudiate Gota’s debts, for a workers and peasants government! The current crisis in Sri Lanka is a classic example of a revolutionary situation in its purest conceivable form. At such times a bold decisive approach is crucial. After decades of deepening turmoil – uprisings, general strikes, insurrections, communal riots, pogroms, ethnic bloodbaths, massacres, coups and a bloodthirsty civil … [Read more...]
THE CRISIS IN SRI LANKA
THE CRISIS IN SRI LANKA - MEETING 10TH APRIL 2022 - YouTube Hear first hand from P.D. Saranapala - a veteran of the 1980 general strike, leader of the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka, treasurer of the Socialist People’s Forum and secretary of the Government United Management Assistance Union. After decades of deepening turmoil – uprisings, general strikes, insurrections, communal riots, pogroms, … [Read more...]