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Denounce the Trade Union leaders’ thuggery against the members of Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party

Statement of the Colombo Action Committee The Colombo Action Committee (CACPS) vehemently denounces the physical attack unleashed on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Dehin Wasantha and Lakshman Fernando,   by the President and Secretary of the Moratuwa…

Dec 20, 20231 year ago
Ahnaf

Poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem, victim of Sri Lanka government racist campaign, acquitted

By Sanjaya Jayasekera The High Court of Puttalam last Tuesday (12) acquitted poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem of the charge against him framed under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), three and half years after his wrongful arrest. The acquittal…

Dec 17, 20231 year ago
Meeting

Public Meeting: Stop Zionist-Imperialist Genocide against the Palestinian Oppressed!

Colombo Action Committee & theSocialist.LK The Colombo Action Committee (CAC) and theSocialist.LK will hold a public meeting on November 19, at 19:15 hrs [Sri Lanka Time] to call upon and mobilize the working class in Sri Lanka, in Israel and…

Nov 7, 20231 year ago
Exodus

Defend the people of Palestine against Zionism!

For a United Socialist State of Jewish-Arabic working classes opposed to the dual state-ruse of the imperialists! Statement of the Colombo Action Committee We demand to immediately stop the Israel Emergency Unity Government’s genocide carried out by air and missile…

Oct 21, 20231 year ago
Palestine

Stop Israeli genocide!

By David North The following statement appeared originally on X/Twitter. A crime of monumental dimensions, comparable to those committed by the Nazis, is now unfolding before the eyes of the world. More than two million people are being deliberately subjected to…

Oct 15, 20231 year ago
Palitha

Caricature of Reporting: How the WSWS Sri Lanka correspondents reported the EPF protest in Colombo

By Nandana Nanneththi. “The report published on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on September 1, under the title “Over 1000 workers protest in Colombo against Sri Lanka government’s attacks’, has yet again demonstrated the  gross negligence of the Sri…

Oct 5, 20231 year ago
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In defence of SEP: The call to build on historical lessons of the Trotskyist movement for intra-party democracy

By Nihal Gikianage for SEP-SL Left Faction The letter posted below was sent on October 28, 2022 by the comrades of the Left Faction of Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Chilaw branch, to its General Secretary Deepal Jayasekara, to…

Aug 23, 20231 year ago
amarathunga

In defence of SEP: Countering the purge of Comrade Amaratunga from Ambalangoda Local

By L.P. Udayaprema, for SEP-SL Left Faction  The letter posted below was sent on November 16, 2022 by Comrade Udayaprema of the Ambalangoda branch of the Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party (SEP) to its General Secretary Deepal Jayasekara to defend…

Aug 23, 20231 year ago
amarathunga

In defence of SEP: Countering the purge of Comrade Amaratunga from Ambalangoda Local

By L.P. Udayaprema, for SEP-SL Left Faction  The letter posted below was sent on November 16, 2022 by Comrade Udayaprema of the Ambalangoda branch of the Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party (SEP) to its General Secretary Deepal Jayasekara to defend…

Aug 23, 20231 year ago
PURGE

Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party regime expels seven more members from the Party

Statement of the SEP-SL Left Faction Extending their bureaucratic policy of “purge”, the leadership of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Sri Lanka has announced the expulsion of 07 more members from the Party. The respective members have been informed through…

Aug 23, 20231 year ago
PURGE

Sri Lanka Socialist Equality Party regime expels seven more members from the Party

Statement of the SEP-SL Left Faction Extending their bureaucratic policy of “purge”, the leadership of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Sri Lanka has announced the expulsion of 07 more members from the Party. The respective members have been informed through…

Aug 23, 20231 year ago
Seedevi

“Layattu Koligal” (Estate Hens) – an artwork recreating the lives of workers

By Nandana Nanneththi Script, Direction and Music by: R Loganandan KCostumes and Makeup: Selvaraj Lilavati  Drama Material: M. Navaneethan Production: Theater Mates Culture Association, Kotiyagala “Layattu Koligal” is a drama embodying the lives and struggle of estate workers, and is…

Jul 28, 20231 year ago
protest

Free Julian Assange! Journalist pressures Australian government at a Colombo meeting

Our Correspondent  Yesterday (21) one journalist stood alone in expressing his protest against Australian government and took it opportunity to demand that government’s intervention to secure the release of the witch-hunted journalist Julian Assange, when the Australian High Commissioner (HC)…

Jul 22, 20231 year ago
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Contempt of court law: Sri Lanka Government wages war against people’s freedom of expression

By Sanjaya Jayasekera As part of a larger onslaught on democratic rights, Sri Lanka government of President Ranil Wickremasinghe is waging a war against free expression of the masses, specifically targeting print and digital media and online platforms. The latest…

Jul 14, 20231 year ago
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SEP-SL Assistant Secretary Condemns the CAC Campaign for Freedom of Art and Expression

By Nandana Nannetti On June 17, the Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Sri Lanka, Comrade Saman Gunadasa participated in the online (Zoom) meeting held by the Colombo Action Committee (CAC). The meeting was organized to clarify the…

Jul 1, 20231 year ago
The fight for principles and leadership of the working class: How SEP-SL bureaucracy expelled revolutionaries

The fight for principles and leadership of the working class: How SEP-SL bureaucracy expelled revolutionaries

By Sanjaya Jayasekera  The leadership of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) – Sri Lanka recently (06 May) released three documents officially announcing that it has expelled two of its leading comrades, Nandana Nannetti and Sanjaya Jayasekera from the Party, almost…

May 15, 20232 years ago
A reply to SEP-SL General Secretary, Deepal Jayasekara: The struggle of the SEP left faction

A reply to SEP-SL General Secretary, Deepal Jayasekara: The struggle of the SEP left faction

By Nandana Nannetti  The Socialist Equality Party, Sri Lanka, released three special documents on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) (Sinhala) last Friday,  06 May 2023. They are about the expulsion of the two comrades who worked in the leadership…

May 12, 20232 years ago
SEP-SL bureaucracy promotes backwardness and hostility to principles

SEP-SL bureaucracy promotes backwardness and hostility to principles

Months after the politurbo of Socialist Equality Party (SEP) Sri Lanka expelled Comrades Nandana Nanneththi and Sanjaya Jayasekera from the Party, the Party leadership has, on 06 May 2023, released, along with the statement posted below, two other documents in…

May 11, 20232 years ago
global socialist reviews

May Day 2023: Build IWA-RFC, Stop World War!

By Colombo Action Committee  This May Day is celebrated by the working class all over the world, in the midst of the great danger of an emerging World War III – a nuclear war threatening a mass extinction – and…

Apr 29, 20232 years ago
Defeat the reactionary policy against the struggle for action committees!

Defeat the reactionary policy against the struggle for action committees!

By Colombo Action Committee The letter published here was sent by the Colombo Action Committee to the General Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), Comrade Deepal Jayasekara and the editor of the Sinhala section of the World Socialist Web…

Apr 14, 20232 years ago
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