https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/icfiSubCategory/slsephttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/02/dkfh-j02.htmlOpposition to the war is growing among workers and youth, who face soaring living costs and worsening social conditions.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:56:19 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/372cf803-dbe3-4eda-9764-863ac681af4F/dkfh-j02.html2026-06-02T04:56:19Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/30/elfu-m30.htmlThe defence lawyer attempted to portray the SEP as an NGO dependent on foreign funding and suggested that the complaint was motivated by efforts to obtain overseas funds.Sat, 30 May 2026 03:45:56 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/6fd44c1c-5de8-4d3b-bd55-81bc393d52dE/elfu-m30.html2026-05-30T03:45:56Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/04/kwuj-m04.htmlSEP speakers explained that the military assault on Iran was part of US imperialism’s efforts to dominate oil and gas resources in the Middle East, as part of a far wider unfolding conflict against China and Russia.Mon, 04 May 2026 04:09:40 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/df6549b1-111f-4c37-adee-2ae143b0878C/kwuj-m04.html2026-05-04T04:09:40Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/13/qqjq-a13.htmlThe meeting in Hatton on April 26 will discuss the real aims of US imperialism, the complicity of Sri Lanka's ruling elite in the widening war, and the socialist strategy that must be adopted to fight against war.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:59:16 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ed3de2fb-64f6-48d3-bd20-fddb6ab5780E/qqjq-a13.html2026-04-13T01:59:16Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/20/soaj-m20.htmlThe SEP’s well attended Colombo public meeting, which was live-streamed on Zoom and the party’s Facebook page, discussed the urgent need to build an international working-class movement against the imperialist onslaught on Iran which threatens to escalate into a broader global conflict.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:42:24 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/2888d0f3-57cf-4bf6-b1ff-1aa784f8978A/soaj-m20.html2026-03-20T04:42:24Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/09/xwus-m09.htmlSpeakers will discuss the causes of the war, its global implications, the historical and theoretical issues involved, and above all the necessity of the working class politically intervening to stop it.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:00:56 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/2fc30d93-7ae9-4cc1-9f98-36e98a7dae1J/xwus-m09.html2026-03-09T01:00:56Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/07/pphk-m07.htmlThe Socialist Equality Party condemns the illegal war of aggression by US imperialism and Israel against Iran and the sinking of an unarmed Iranian warship as a blatant war crime.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:30:26 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/1d6e571d-dd6a-4000-9c3e-ba984f16779E/pphk-m07.html2026-03-07T03:30:26Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/04/mldy-f04.htmlThe SEP has consistently explained the brutal attack near the University of Moratuwa was not an isolated street brawl, but a politically driven attempt to prevent it from organising among university workers and students.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:28:35 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/6f9e4fb9-49ba-4fd3-823f-c9606318281I/mldy-f04.html2026-02-04T04:28:35Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/08/riuy-j08.htmlComrade Leela’s death is a sad loss for the SEP, but the memory of this courageous fighter lives on today in the party’s struggle.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:17:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/b996811e-482e-4e22-a1b7-ec7c8def475O/riuy-j08.html2026-01-08T04:17:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/19/kjie-n19.htmlThese are not “industrial accidents” but industrial murders, the direct result of the profit-driven assault on essential safety precautions by the capitalist class.Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:51:45 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/e3cde0a2-6950-4249-a8f0-25e8c3aa962K/kjie-n19.html2025-11-19T05:51:45Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/29/reft-a29.htmlSpeakers placed the struggle of postal workers within the broader crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism and the need for workers to form independent action committees to fight the government’s IMF-dictated measures.Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:17:10 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/5e2b9676-4faa-4270-9bd7-23a74319b30F/reft-a29.html2025-08-29T04:17:10Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/26/csqc-a26.htmlThe arrest of Wickremesinghe took place amid an intensifying political crisis confronting the JVP/NPP government, fuelled by emerging working-class struggles.Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:15:41 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/4d713118-6e44-480b-ad16-4053abdf31aF/csqc-a26.html2025-08-26T05:15:41Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/21/dmxu-a21.htmlDaulagala dedicated more than four decades of his life to the struggle for the Trotskyist principles of international socialism until prolonged illness curtailed his work.Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:16:05 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/8a976eea-7f41-44e0-9b9e-0a2648f49deM/dmxu-a21.html2025-08-21T03:16:05Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/18/baak-a18.htmlDaulagala—affectionately known among party comrades and friends as “Daule”—passed away at home on August 13, at the age of 77, following a prolonged illness.Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:22:46 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/dbac579b-4128-42d9-94a9-f72549c1edaE/baak-a18.html2025-08-18T04:22:46Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/27/jgxe-j27.htmlWe urge all workers, youth, students and concerned individuals to attend the meetings and join the struggle against imperialist war.Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:42:29 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/994a68f2-a2e5-4022-bf02-741193982faF/jgxe-j27.html2025-06-27T02:42:29Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/03/skhs-m03.htmlThe SEP urges working people in Kolonnawa and Karainagar to vote for its candidates in the local government elections. In other areas, we do not endorse a vote for any party or candidate.Sat, 03 May 2025 03:08:09 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ab013c38-f5b7-41e3-a101-e607e22df33H/skhs-m03.html2025-05-03T03:08:09Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/01/sgob-m01.htmlThe SEP and IYSSE are fielding two slates of candidates in the May 6 election for the Karainagar Divisional Council in the northern Jaffna district and the Kolonnawa Urban Council in the suburbs of Colombo.Thu, 01 May 2025 04:26:37 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d208e8ee-abed-4172-afc1-8f89b05bae7D/sgob-m01.html2025-05-01T04:26:37Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/30/jsky-a30.html“Comrades, including Wicks, rejected the populist petty-bourgeois alternatives and turned to the International Committee, to the Sri Lankan and international working class and to building the revolutionary leadership of the working class.”Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:34:20 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/03148f35-efa2-44c3-8b1f-b56867c2d00N/jsky-a30.html2025-04-30T03:34:20Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/28/zekr-a28.htmlWe warn working people not to believe Amarasuriya’s promises. What she stated is exposed by JVP/NPP government’s six months of austerity and police state measures.Mon, 28 Apr 2025 04:39:52 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/146ba5db-717d-4a68-b028-772505ef014N/zekr-a28.html2025-04-28T04:39:52Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/23/deuf-a23.htmlNanda Wickremesinghe’s political life as a Trotskyist spanned nearly seven decades. Right until the end, despite ailments that forced him to withdraw from active party work, our comrade had never lost his revolutionary spirit.Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:03:27 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/61a5e255-28e4-4825-b387-a9dceef0a68O/deuf-a23.html2025-04-23T05:03:27Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/22/qamd-a22.htmlNanda Wickremesinghe, known as Comrade Wicks, played a prominent role in the leadership of Trotskyist movement until his deteriorating health prevented him taking part in day-to-day political work.Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:20:13 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ef528bb0-1aaa-4761-a3f6-d33e55ddde4B/qamd-a22.html2025-04-22T02:20:13Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/18/oanf-a18.htmlSEP and IYSSE speakers discussed the deepening global crisis of capitalism, the eruption of fascist tendencies, the danger of world war and the need for a socialist and internationalist program.Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:56:19 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/27cf38cb-c26d-4a14-bcb9-613ad4e4600M/oanf-a18.html2025-04-18T05:56:19Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/15/yqmd-a15.html“The democratic rights of the Tamil people can only be achieved through the overthrow of capitalism and the fight for socialism.”Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:38:37 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/4111c4f6-96f0-4216-94d1-be4d4fa283eN/yqmd-a15.html2025-04-15T04:38:37Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/09/ylpz-a09.html“If this government continues like this, the President will have to go by such a mass uprising again,” a resident warned.Wed, 09 Apr 2025 03:46:35 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/09a8d997-ae92-4fe5-9c21-419373c10b6K/ylpz-a09.html2025-04-09T03:46:35Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/05/aspa-a05.htmlThe JVP/NPP is attempting to win support in the local government elections in order to claim a renewed mandate even as it intensifies the imposition of the IMF’s austerity demands.Sat, 05 Apr 2025 03:55:56 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/fe685f76-1054-46a0-a16a-863f2b5273bI/aspa-a05.html2025-04-05T03:55:56Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/04/sqik-a04.htmlThe SEP’s election intervention aims to educate and mobilise workers independently of all capitalist parties and their political hangers-on and for a socialist and internationalist program.Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:45:21 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/b7d020f4-76e0-46d5-8e50-5df1a1d3e63C/sqik-a04.html2025-04-04T00:45:21Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/26/coeo-m26.htmlWe call on workers to join and build the SEP as the necessary revolutionary leadership for the immense struggles ahead.Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:44:32 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/392ef8aa-8201-4271-9bcd-fb386d95b47B/coeo-m26.html2025-03-26T03:44:32Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/15/fkiw-m15.htmlThe SEP stresses the urgency for workers to build action committees, independent of the trade unions, to fight to defend their social and democratic rights.Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:43:46 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/03c754ad-28ca-4b67-b8ce-f1ee1fcada4N/fkiw-m15.html2025-03-15T03:43:46Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/08/ziat-m08.htmlA well-attended online meeting of health workers discussed the government’s austerity budget and the political and industrial struggle required to fight it.Sat, 08 Mar 2025 04:25:42 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/a4eda5ca-02d6-4527-8f34-913351d772cA/ziat-m08.html2025-03-08T04:25:42Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/17/sfoo-f17.htmlWorkers, youth and peasants must strongly condemn the thuggish and provocative actions of the JVP which are a serious warning of the repressive measures the government will resort to.Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:17:53 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/86a42468-3ab0-48e3-87e7-aa9a5e045ceK/sfoo-f17.html2025-02-17T04:17:53Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/06/nedf-j06.htmlThe IYSSE meeting, which will discuss the socialist program necessary to defend the social and democratic rights of workers and youth, is being held in Kandy after being anti-democratically banned at Peradeniya University.Mon, 06 Jan 2025 03:33:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/bfe39392-baa3-418d-a077-f4cdfe2fb16H/nedf-j06.html2025-01-06T03:33:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/04/hhgs-j04.htmlThere are strong indications that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)/National People’s Power (NPP) government played a role in cancelling the lecture.Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:45:33 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/3db26612-5e89-4c64-b05f-3ce34f73fd1D/hhgs-j04.html2025-01-04T00:45:33Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/13/ooho-d13.htmlThe police attack on protesting SDOs is yet another indication that the JVP/NPP regime will ruthlessly suppress all those coming into conflict with its savage International Monetary Fund (IMF)-dictated austerity program.Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:23:28 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/29fc4d11-2a48-4fd3-af54-41058089c5eK/ooho-d13.html2024-12-13T03:23:28Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/11/gluj-d11.htmlJerry White, vice presidential candidate of the SEP in the US, addressed the Colombo meeting through the internet, arousing an enthusiastic discussion about the significance of the US election.Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:02:10 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/79c4d778-98b5-4895-9b5d-74b4818f8a0F/gluj-d11.html2024-12-11T04:02:10Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/27/dogc-n27.htmlThe meeting will discuss the urgent tasks that confronting the working class in the wake of the US and Sri Lankan elections and the socialist and internationalist strategy necessary to fight for the interests of working people.Wed, 27 Nov 2024 03:14:16 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/76ef34fd-b116-40f2-8b49-86a179958d7I/dogc-n27.html2024-11-27T03:14:16Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/16/wmfa-n16.htmlThe working class will rapidly come into conflict with the JVP/NPP government, which while posturing as anti-establishment, is a right-wing communalist party committed to imposing IMF austerity.Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:37:24 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/6c54df50-3c22-4033-b2d2-bfaa647d106G/wmfa-n16.html2024-11-16T01:37:24Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/11/xtbe-n11.htmlWe urge workers, students, youth and rural poor to vote for the SEP in this election to express their support for our international socialist perspective and on that basis prepare for the class struggles ahead.Mon, 11 Nov 2024 04:58:59 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/20b912ac-6537-4491-9ebb-ee384b30b12J/xtbe-n11.html2024-11-11T04:58:59Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/25/wctp-o25.htmlThe SEP has been targeted because it has a long and courageous history of fighting to unite workers—Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim—against the Sri Lankan capitalist elite and on the basis of a socialist program.Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:08:43 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/713c4f17-7684-4dbe-a476-d6416e7e92aN/wctp-o25.html2024-10-25T03:08:43Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/24/fdcw-o24.htmlJayasekara recalled how Wicks joined a precocious and politically far-sighted group of young revolutionaries who opposed the LSSP's great betrayal of 1964 and, under the ICFI's guidance, sought to lay bare its roots in Pabloite opportunism. Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:53:02 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/0e58bbda-c13c-4348-a1d9-f435463f135P/fdcw-o24.html2024-10-24T00:53:02Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/19/ngph-o19.htmlEntirely committed to implementing IMF austerity, the JVP/NPP government wants a “strong” majority to strengthen its hand against the mass working class opposition it knows it will soon face.Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:02:07 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/e99bbda0-ea89-4667-b3d0-a07a6185bdaO/ngph-o19.html2024-10-19T01:02:07Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/14/iyla-o14.htmlThe SEP’s election intervention aims to build an independent political movement of the working class based on international socialism against world war, austerity and dictatorship.Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:02:02 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/6a356b65-9fc3-44c9-93b0-4ff86b07f3bK/iyla-o14.html2024-10-14T02:02:02Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/14/ziyg-o14.htmlThe Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) is standing in general elections to be held on November 14, with a list of 41 candidates in three electoral districts.Mon, 14 Oct 2024 01:46:18 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/c14d0c40-10dc-4308-8534-4e1414fdf16D/ziyg-o14.html2024-10-14T01:46:18Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/12/fvkd-o12.htmlThe SEP is intervening in this parliamentary election to build an independent political movement of the working class, based on international socialism, against war, austerity and the turn to authoritarian methods of rule.Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:01:34 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/a35f32ce-af4d-4dfc-94bb-6b2073bebdaA/fvkd-o12.html2024-10-12T05:01:34Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/21/xrxz-s21.htmlAll of the capitalist candidates in today’s election are committed to a continuing the International Monetary Fund’s savage austerity being implemented by President Wickremesinghe.Sat, 21 Sep 2024 03:33:26 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/31b7b868-3308-4610-be11-f2620c67a4fN/xrxz-s21.html2024-09-21T03:33:26Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/20/feyz-s20.htmlWere the JVP/NPP to come to power, it would rapidly come into open and violent conflict with the working class, using communalist incitement and the security forces, with whom it has long colluded, to divide and suppress the working class. Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:14:37 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/78c71bf1-7ed3-4861-a515-569c2419b4cP/feyz-s20.html2024-09-20T01:14:37Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/19/pdae-s19.htmlThe SEP fights for a socialist alternative against imperialist war, austerity and the slashing of basic social rights, and the preparations by the ruling class for dictatorial forms of rule.Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:27:59 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/aeea16aa-2df7-44d8-81b2-91c5281cfa9A/pdae-s19.html2024-09-18T04:27:59Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/16/zxxq-s16.htmlThe FSP seeks to dupe working people into believing that the deepening attacks on democratic and social rights can be resolved within the capitalist system and the framework of discredited electoral politics.Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:03:29 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/51e64dcc-b197-4d6b-97dc-979b8b0f15fG/zxxq-s16.html2024-09-16T05:03:29Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/14/mktw-s14.htmlThe SEP is the only party fighting for the mobilisation of the Sri Lankan working class on a revolutionary socialist and internationalist program against the capitalist profit system.Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:24:56 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/1435eb07-b71c-41e7-97f7-f892dfcc06aI/mktw-s14.html2024-09-14T05:24:56Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/04/lqsk-s04.htmlThe SEP is the only party warning of the dangers of world war and fascism and advancing a socialist alternative to massive IMF austerity.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:57:30 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/224c37c8-b1e0-4d40-8c58-8d4c08e5c88E/lqsk-s04.html2024-09-04T03:57:30Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/02/chsg-s02.htmlPostponing last year’s local elections by President Wickremesinghe, just nine months after the 2022 mass uprising, was a reactionary attempt to maintain his unstable regime and implement IMF austerity.Mon, 02 Sep 2024 04:43:53 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/fe095a62-7567-4e8b-9908-882f101f45dP/chsg-s02.html2024-09-02T04:43:53Z