Sri Lankan government enforces UN sanctions against North Korea
Colombo has increasingly integrated Sri Lanka behind Washington’s war preparations against China and North Korea.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Nanda Wickremasinghe
US pushes for closer Sri Lankan involvement into war drive against China
The US is planning to slash foreign aid to Sri Lanka this year apparently to underscore its displeasure about the Colombo government’s recent investment deals with China.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lanka: New anti-terror measures lay foundations for police state
While President Sirisena postured as a champion of democracy in 2015, Sri Lanka’s planned anti-terror act is a major assault on the basic rights of the working class.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lanka: NSSP leader campaigns for IMF austerity agenda
Karunaratne is a propagandist for the government and its austerity measures against workers and the poor.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lankan president attends G7 “outreach meeting”
The gathering’s main purpose was to more firmly tie the countries involved in the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia.”
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
JVP campaigns for pro-US opposition candidate in Sri Lankan presidential election
Having long ago integrated itself into the Colombo establishment, the JVP has increasingly accommodated to Washington.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
The LSSP’s Great Betrayal: Part 1
The first of four articles on the political lessons of the entry of the LSSP into the government of Madame Sirima Bandaranaike in June 1964.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe, K. Ratnayake
Bala Tampoe (1922–2014): Socialist revolutionary turned class traitor
Tampoe’s political degeneration was bound up with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party’s backsliding, which culminated in its 1964 entry into a bourgeois government.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe, Wije Dias
Sri Lankan government prepares for Commonwealth summit
Colombo is hoping to ease international pressure over Sri Lankan human rights abuses.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lankan pseudo lefts back bogus US calls for human rights
The NSSP has joined the right-wing UNP to appeal to the Rajapakse government to implement the recent UN resolution on human rights abuses.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lankan president rejects fresh war crimes evidence
New photos confirm that LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son was not killed in crossfire, as the military claimed, but shot in captivity.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
US sponsors new UN resolution on Sri Lankan human rights
The Obama administration’s concern is not with democratic rights in Sri Lanka, but with undermining Chinese influence in Colombo.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Indian establishment mourns founder-leader of fascist Shiv Sena
The fawning send-off the Indian ruling class accorded Bal Thackeray, the founder-leader of the fascist Shiv Sena (SS), following his death last month at the age of 86 constitutes both a lesson and warning to the working class.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Ex-army chief calls for regime change in Sri Lanka
Former presidential candidate, General Sarath Fonseka, has appealed for Western support for a campaign to overthrow the present government.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lankan president forced to sack deputy minister
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse sacked the deputy highways minister on Tuesday after his public humiliation of a government employee provoked widespread protests.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lankan government prepares major constitutional changes
The Sri Lankan government is pressing ahead with constitutional changes designed to extend President Mahinda Rajapakse’s rule and enhance his autocratic methods.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lanka: IMF insists on severe austerity measures
After a 10-day inspection visit, the International Monetary Fund mission to Sri Lanka announced last Thursday that it was “encouraged” by the government’s planned measures to cut the budget deficit.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lankan military takes over urban development
The Sri Lankan president’s self-proclaimed “economic war” took on a new meaning last weekend when the Urban Development Authority utilised soldiers and police to evict families from shanties in central Colombo.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lanka: Opposition parties unanimously back new parliamentary speaker
One aspect of the proceedings in the first parliamentary session last week underlined the degree to which the entire political establishment supports the anti-working class agenda of President Mahinda Rajapakse.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe
Sri Lankan parliament again ratifies emergency powers
President Rajapakse retains his extraordinary powers to ban public meetings and protests, censor the media, outlaw strikes, sack workers, detain people without charge and mobilise the military in strike-breaking operations.
•Nanda Wickremasinghe