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Sri Lanka: Ruling class manoeuvers intensify to thwart revolutionary uprising

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative By rising up onto their feet, the masses in Sri Lanka have awakened the imagination and courage of millions of workers and poor fighting against the effects of the capitalist crisis in South Asia and internationally.

Jul 20, 2022

Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa forced out of power

By Serge Jordan, International Socialist Alternative Fast-paced events in crisis-ridden Sri Lanka have taken yet a new turn today, Saturday 9 July, as hundreds of thousands of people descended onto the capital Colombo in a day of huge protests originally initiated by

Jul 11, 2022

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Sri Lankan PM Resigns after counter-revolutionary assault provokes fury

By Serge Jordan Events have taken a frenetic pace in Sri Lanka over the last 72 hours. Nothing short of a revolutionary crisis has developed, one that is likely to be a forerunner of similar upheavals in other countries. On the morning

May 12, 2022

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Sri Lanka: First general strike in 42 years

By Serge Jordan Global capitalism is in the midst of growing economic throes and working class resistance. Sri Lanka has been violently propelled to the forefront of both. The words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Communist Manifesto that “All

May 2, 2022

Sri Lanka: No to terrorist bombing-For workers unity to defeat racism and division

Statement from United Socialist Party (our sister organisation in Sri Lanka) The United Socialist Party in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Solidarity campaign, the Socialist Party in England and Wales and the Socialist Party in Ireland strongly condemn the atrocious attacks that took place

Apr 22, 2019

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Sri Lanka: Ruling class manoeuvers intensify to thwart revolutionary uprising

Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa forced out of power

Sri Lankan PM Resigns after counter-revolutionary assault provokes fury

Sri Lanka: First general strike in 42 years

Sri Lanka: No to terrorist bombing-For workers unity to defeat racism and division

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden