Sri Lanka: End impunity and injustice for crimes against journalists
At the 31st World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Sandhya Ekneligoda, the wife of missing journalist, Prageeth
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Author: Dharmasiri Lankapeli
Ranil Wickremesinghe: A Hired Premier
Aragalaya demands systemic change because the existing system with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (GR) as its synecdoche has allowed crooks to
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Elections in the Philippines: the revenge of the Marcos clan and the campaign of Leni Robredo
On 9 May, the Marcos clan regained the power from which it had been excluded since the fall of the
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War in Ukraine: solidarity with Ukrainian resistance, against all imperialisms
1. State of the war Today, three months have passed since the invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s troops. The Russian
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4.5mn employees from 4,500 SMEs to lose jobs in months ahead: SLUNBA
The Sri Lanka United National Businesses Alliance (SLUNBA) today warned that nearly 4.5 million workers belonging to 4,500 small and
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100th Birth Anniversary of Veteran trade unionist Bala Thampoe !
As a young Left activist, Mr. Thampoe joined the Trotskyist faction of the Leftist, then underground Lanka Sama Samaja
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Battered by the pandemic, Sri Lanka’s female garment workers are reeling from the economic crisis
The pandemic was hard enough. Now, Sri Lanka faces an economic crisis of its own making that is taking a
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IUSF challenges Ranil to arrest Mahinda
The Inter-University Students Federation (IUSF) yesterday (15) challenged newly appointed Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe to arrest former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Workers’ uprising topples Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister
The mass uprising against austerity that began in Sri Lanka at the end of March has forced Mahinda Rajapaksa out
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Linus Jayatilake (Sept. 1942 – May 2022): A Comrade of all Working People!
I first met Linus Jayatilake about a decade ago as some of us began engaging in trade unions. While I
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