South Asia
Sri Lanka: Vote SEP in the Southern Provincial Council election
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), October 9, 2009
The SEP calls on workers, farmers and youth in the Galle district to vote for its slate of candidates in the Southern Provincial Council elections on Saturday.
Obama rules out troop drawdown in Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 8, 2009
President Barack Obama will not consider any reduction in the US military commitment in Afghanistan, White House and congressional officials declared after a three-hour meeting at the White House on T...
Sri Lankan SEP holds final election meeting in Galle
By our correspondents, October 8, 2009
The SEP held the final meeting in its campaign for the Southern Provincial Council election on October 10 last Sunday in Galle town hall. The party is standing a slate of 26 candidates for the Galle d...
Eight years after invasion
Washington faces deepening debacle in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, October 7, 2009
Eight years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Obama White House sand the Pentagon are engaged in a heated debate over whether to send another 40,000 troops in an attempt to salvage an interven...
The Australian Labor Party and the war in Afghanistan
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 7, 2009
Since its election in November 2007, the Rudd Labor government has escalated Australian military involvement in the Afghan conflict. Just as Afghanistan is now referred to as Obama’s war, so it has ...
Demand the release of Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), October 7, 2009
The SEP in Sri Lanka and the WSWS are launching a campaign to demand the immediate and unconditional release of more than 250,000 Tamil civilians who have been detained in internment camps since the d...
Letters of support for Balmoral Estate Action Committee
October 6, 2009
Letters received by the WSWS on “Sri Lanka: An appeal to all workers by the Balmoral Estate Action Committee.”
Sri Lankan plantation workers support Balmoral Workers’ Action Committee
By our correspondents, October 6, 2009
Sri Lankan plantation workers discuss establishment of action committees in response to union betrayal of wage claim.
Indian drought exacerbates social crisis
By Deepal Jayasekera, October 5, 2009
The ongoing drought in India, whose immediate cause is an abysmal monsoon, has dealt a cruel blow to hundreds of millions of desperately poor agricultural labourers, small farmers, and their families.
Heavy US troop losses in insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan
By Barry Grey, October 5, 2009
The United States military suffered its worst single-engagement losses in more than a year on Saturday, when several hundred insurgents attacked a remote outpost in northeastern Afghanistan, killing e...
Sri Lanka: SEP election team campaigns among cinnamon peelers
By Ratnasiri Malalagama and Panini Wijesiriwardane, October 3, 2009
Cinnamon workers and small producers are among poorest section of the rural population in Sri Lanka.
US faces worsening military situation in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, October 3, 2009
The anti-occupation insurgency has spread from the southern provinces that border Pakistan to the capital Kabul and northern provinces.
