South Asia
Tamil detainees in Sri Lanka: “Almost living in hell”
By our correspondents, September 25, 2009
WSWS correspondents again visited the military-run camps in Vavuniya where hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians have been detained in appalling conditions for four months.
US troops out of Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, September 24, 2009
With the US commander in Afghanistan set to deliver a request for tens of thousands more troops, all sides in the Obama administration’s so-called strategy debate are pushing for increased bloodlett...
Sri Lankan unions collaborate in police witch-hunt of plantation workers
By M. Vasanthan, September 24, 2009
Leaders of plantation-based trade unions have assisted the police in bringing charges against workers opposing last week’s pay agreement.
Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on the struggle of plantation workers
September 23, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party will hold a public meeting on “The World Economic Crisis and the Plantation Workers’ Struggle” in Hatton on September 27.
Sri Lanka: An appeal to all workers by the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
September 22, 2009
Workers at the Balmoral tea estate near Bogawanthalawa have issued an appeal calling on workers throughout Sri Lanka’s plantations to follow their lead in rejecting the current pay agreement and for...
Sri Lankan provincial election: SEP campaigns in fishing villages
By Ratnasiri Malalagama, SEP candidate, September 22, 2009
Socialist Equality Party supporters visited several fishing villages in the Galle district as part of the party’s provincial election campaign. Poverty-stricken fishermen expressed hostility to loca...
Sri Lankan provincial election
SEP campaigns among Free Trade Zone workers
By Panini Wijesiriwardena, September 19, 2009
As part of its campaign for the Southern Provincial Council elections on October 10, the SEP spoke to workers from the Koggala Free Trade Zone near Galle. The SEP is standing a slate of 26 candidates ...
Sri Lankan plantation unions sign sell-out pay deal
By our correspondents, September 18, 2009
In opposition to the unions, there are many signs of widespread anger among workers over the wage agreement. Tens of thousands of plantation workers have rejected the deal and are continuing a go-slow...
Preliminary results in Afghan election show Karzai victory
Occupying powers debate moves against incumbent president
By Tom Eley, September 18, 2009
Final preliminary results from Afghanistan’s elections show Karzai winning 54.6 percent of the vote, amdist allegations of massive fraud.
Sri Lankan SEP holds first meeting for Southern Provincial Council election
By our correspondents, September 17, 2009
Sri Lankan SEP launched its campaign for Southern Provincial Council elections with a public meeting in the coastal town Ambalangoda.
Washington elaborates AfPak strategy amid calls for US troop buildup
By Bill Van Auken, September 17, 2009
A classified document submitted to a closed session of the Senate Armed Services Committee spells out a US war strategy that places special emphasis on Pakistan as US military commanders signal suppor...
Washington’s “good war”
Death squads, disappearances and torture in Pakistan
By Bill Van Auken, September 16, 2009
Reports from Pakistan’s Swat valley of the disappearance, torture and execution of civilians at the hands of the military death squads expose the reality of the so-called “good war” prosecuted b...
