The Ceylon Workers Congress, in line with the state and the company, are directing the victimised workers to admit their guilt for an offence they did not commit.
Workers cannot rely on the trade union bureaucracies, who have become an apparatus of the capitalist government and supporters of international finance capital.
The SEP vehemently opposes government’s anti-democratic ban on commemorative events and demands the immediate release of the three Tamil youth arrested last Saturday.
This demand is addressed not to the right-wing JVP/NPP government, parliament or the opposition parties—all of which are organically beholden to international finance capital. Rather it is addressed to the working class as a lever for mobilizing it against the bankrupt capitalist order, in the fight for workers’ power and the socialist reorganization of society.
In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and transformation into a pro-imperialist party of the Sri Lankan ruling class to implement austerity and crush any opposition.
The 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.
Buoyed by opinion polls showing its candidate as a frontrunner, the party is determined to demonstrate that it is a reliable and ruthless political tool for implementing the agenda of the capitalist class.
Irrespective of which election is held first, and whoever wins, all of Sri Lanka’s capitalist parties and their respective leaders are committed to ruthlessly implementing the IMF demands.
Dissanayake’s five-day trip signifies a further rightward shift by the JVP, as it bolsters its relations with reactionary regimes throughout the region and internationally.
The government’s 2024 budget is designed to fulfill the drastic austerity demands of the International Monetary Fund.
The 26-year bloody war contains important strategic lessons for the working class in Sri Lanka and internationally.
The government’s ruthless austerity drive, dictated by the IMF, is to pay the international credit sharks and boost corporate profits.
In flagrant violation of the country’s constitution and basic democratic rights, Sri Lanka’s unelected president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has cancelled the island-wide local elections to be held March 9.
The JVP/NPP declares that it wants to “save the country,” but its commitment to implementing the IMF’s harsh austerity program means it wants to save Sri Lankan capitalism at the expense of working people.
President Wickremesinghe is preparing for class war against the working class and poor as he is implementing savage austerity measures under the dictates of International Monetary Fund.
Acutely aware that masses will resist his austerity plans, Wickremesinghe continues his appeal for an all-party government, to unite the political establishment, to suppress the mass opposition.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe told parliament that the country was “facing a far more serious situation” than the current shortages of fuel and other essentials and warned of “a possible fall to rock bottom.”
Amid spiralling unrest, the government has begun a new round of talks with the International Monetary Fund about the further harsh austerity measures it must impose.
The Frontline Socialist Party has abandoned its previous phrase-mongering, now insisting that socialism is a task for the distant future, and offering the false hope of solutions within capitalism by ending corruption and making token reforms.
The belated arrests are a bid to deflect the widespread outrage over the violent attack on protesters voicing the sentiments of millions in their call for the president to resign and the deep social crisis to be alleviated.
