South Asia
Sri Lanka: SEP public meeting to launch election campaign
September 7, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party and the International Students for Social Equality will hold a public meeting in the coastal town of Ambalangoda.
Sri Lankan SEP stands in the Southern Provincial Council election
By Socialist Equality Party, September 5, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party is contesting the Southern Provincial Council elections to campaign for an end to the military occupation of the North and East, the defence of democratic rights and a soc...
New atrocity in Afghanistan
US airstrike incinerates scores of civilians
By Patrick Martin, September 5, 2009
An airstrike by a US warplane killed over 100 Afghans early Friday morning, most of them civilians incinerated when two gasoline tankers, hit by bombs, exploded in flames.
For the mobilization of the working class to end the war in Afghanistan
By Joe Kishore, September 4, 2009
There are clear signs of growing popular opposition in the US and around the world to the war in Afghanistan, as the Obama administration readies another major increase in the US troop presence.
US commander’s report paves way for military escalation in Afghanistan
By Tom Eley, September 2, 2009
A classified report issued by the US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, sets the stage for a major increase in US troop levels.
Tamil journalist sentenced to 20 years jail by Sri Lankan court
By Deepal Jayasekera, September 2, 2009
In a major attack on democratic rights, Tamil journalist J.S. Tissanayagam was sentenced to 20 years of hard labour on Monday under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and emergency regulations.
Sri Lankan power workers strike for pay increase
By W.A. Sunil, August 31, 2009
Thousands of Ceylon Electricity Board workers took part in an islandwide, one-day strike last Friday to demand a 40 percent pay hike, the restoration of working conditions and the scrapping of the rec...
Video evidence of Sri Lankan government war crimes
By Sarath Kumara, August 29, 2009
A grisly video of Sri Lankan soldiers executing naked, bound and blindfolded men in cold blood provides further first-hand evidence of the war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government and militar...
Sri Lanka: Detention of Tamil civilians to continue indefinitely
By Sampath Perera, August 22, 2009
Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse reiterated on Monday that up to 300,000 Tamil civilians who fled the fighting in the final days of the country’s protracted civil war will remain inc...
Sri Lanka: Police state measures against nurses
By Vilani Peiris, August 20, 2009
The Sri Lankan government’s use of police state methods against the nurses at the Cancer Hospital in Maharagama, south of Colombo, is a warning to the entire working class.
Sri Lanka: Thousands protest against police killings
By W. A. Sunil, August 18, 2009
The murders are the latest police atrocity in President Mahinda Rajapakse’s fraudulent “war against the underworld.”
China-India border talks highlight rising tensions
By John Chan, August 15, 2009
This month’s border talks between China and India became a focus of mounting tensions between the two countries.
