National Sections of the L5I:

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Wickremesinghe targets students

Having replaced Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President, Ranil Wickremesinghe has unleashed a wave of repression against the mass movement that forced Rajapaksa from office. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Everything has changed, but nothing has changed!

Sri Lanka's huge protest movement has finally forced Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign. Read more...

Sri Lanka: For a Constituent Assembly!

"Rajapaksa is sending his thugs to kill us", that was the one line message sent to the League by a supporter at the protest camp on Galle Face Green in Colombo on May 9. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Rajapakse II imposes State of Emergency

Two days after he addressed the nation on TV to announce his latest promise to revive the economy, President Gotabaya Rajapakse has taken emergency powers to try to hold back the tide of protest threa Read more...

Sri Lanka: Rajapakse's constitutional power grab

Today, September 22, President Gothabaya Rajapakse took full advantage of his victory in the August parliamentary elections to introduce sweeping constitutional reforms that will make that parliament Read more...

Sri Lanka: Sinhala chauvinists strengthen their grip

Sri Lanka's general election, held on August 5, gave a landslide victory to the Sri Lanka Freedom Alliance, the electoral bloc dominated by the President, Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his brother, Mahinda Read more...

Sri Lanka: No choice for the working class in the presidential election

Sri Lanka goes to the polls tomorrow, November 16, to elect a new president. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Vote Socialist - and organise to fight!

Sri Lanka is facing a steadily worsening economic situation. For years, governments have spent more than they raised. Read more...

Statement on the Sri Lanka bombings

Socialists everywhere should unconditionally condemn the recent bombings in Sri Lanka which, at the latest count, killed more than 200 entirely innocent people. Read more...

Sri Lanka: A Tale of Two Strikes

Much of the news the world hears from Sri Lanka centres on either the aftermath of the civil war against the Tamils or the rivalry between the imperialist powers expressed through the mainstream polit Read more...

Sri Lanka: crisis resolved, for now

Sri Lanka's constitutional crisis, during which there appeared to be two governments at one point and no government at all at another, has been resolved, at least formally. Read more...

Sri Lanka: President dissolves parliament

Late on the afternoon of Friday, November 9, Sri Lanka's President, Maithripala Sirisena of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, SLFP, announced that he was dissolving the country's parliament and calling a g Read more...

Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Emergency

The State of Emergency declared by the government of Ranil Wickremasinghe on March 6, initially for 7 days, was finally lifted on March 18. Read more...

State of Emergency in Sri Lanka

The declaration of a State of Emergency by the government of Ranil Wickremasinghe and Maithripala Sirisena is further evidence, if more were required, that theirs is a government that cannot resolve S Read more...

Sri Lanka: US-backed government takes office

After three weeks of public manoeuvring and who knows what private deals, Sri Lanka now has a new government. Read more...

Sri Lanka Elections: No party worthy of a vote

On August 17, Sri Lanka goes to the polls in the first parliamentary election since the former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, was defeated in the Presidential election last January. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Duplicity on the Right, confusion on the Left

On July 26, Sri Lanka's newly elected President, Maithripala Sirisena, dissolved Parliament and ordered a general election to be held on August 17. Read more...

An Action Programme for Working Class Power in Sri Lanka

Rajapaksa's defeat opens up Sri Lanka politics

Despite his characteristic boasting that he would win with ease, Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated in the Sri Lankan Presidential election by a substantial margin, 51.3 to 47.6. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Vote Left Front … and organise to fight!

Having first amended the constitution to allow himself a third term in office, in November, Mahinda Rajapaksa decided to hold a presidential election on January 8, two years before his current term ex Read more...

Women: Organise self-defence against police brutality!

A video of a police sergeant brutally attacking a young woman in Ratnapura town has gone viral on social media in Sri Lanka. Read more...

Protests against Buddhist attacks on Muslim communities

Colombo, June 18. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Joint union campaign against Rajapaksa's budget

Taking advantage of the barrage of publicity that accompanied the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting the previous week, President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week presented his government's budget fo Read more...

Commonwealth leaders endorse Rajapaksa

There will be no limits on the extravagance of the ceremonies that will greet the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) when they arrive in Sri Lanka. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Release student leaders!

Two student leaders, Sanjeewa Bandara, Convenor of the Inter University Student Federation, IUSF, and Kimbullawe Chandrananda, Convenor of the Inter University Bhikku Federation, IUBF, have been deta Read more...

Sri Lanka: new attacks on Tamil rights

Sri Lanka: united demo builds on May Day success

On May 15, 5000 demonstrators marched across the heart of Colombo, from Campbell Park to the main railway station at Fort, to demand a reversal of the government's 65% price hike in the cost of electr Read more...

May Day in Sri Lanka

In every country, May Day provides an opportunity to assess the state of the working class movement. Read more...

Demo silences Rajapakse

Hundreds of demonstrators have prevented Sri Lanka's President Rajapakse from addressing a business meeting in the heart of the City of London. Read more...

Founding of Party overshadowed by abductions

The founding convention of the Frontline Socialist Party, was held in Colombo on April 9th. Read more...

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