Notwithstanding minor differences over an investigation of Colombo’s war crimes, the Tamil elite has aligned itself with Washington’s aggressive stance against China.
Workers’ concerns have been deepened because of the disastrous pandemic situation globally and in Sri Lanka.
Social opposition is mounting among workers and the poor across Sri Lanka against the Rajapakse government’s continuous attacks on social and democratic rights.
The electoral collapse of the TNA is the product of the political bankruptcy, demonstrated over decades, of the Tamil bourgeois-nationalist perspective.
Last month marked the eleventh anniversary of the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s nearly 30-year war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The government and the military are nervous about the growing unrest among workers and poor against the draconian social conditions.
Health workers in northern Sri Lanka insist that the insufficiency of tests and shortcomings of health facilities has made the province vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Having previously stated that Gotabhaya Rajapakse had “authoritarian tendencies,” the Tamil National Alliance leadership is offering to help the new president impose his pro-business program.
The repression of Tamil youth is another attempt to divide Sri Lankan workers along communal lines and follows Colombo’s agreement to impose more IMF cuts.
The ongoing detention of hundreds of Tamil political prisoners is part of a broader government attack on democratic rights.
There is nothing progressive about Tamil nationalism, or indeed about nationalism in general, which only divides workers and blocks a unified struggle against war and austerity.
The protest, two days in advance of the visit, was a shameful manoeuvre to provide cover for the TNA’s support for President Maithripala Sirisena’s government.
The Tamil National Alliance and other bourgeois Tamil formations hope to use the UN report to broker a new political deal with Sri Lanka’s pro-US government.
Unbearable social conditions and de facto military rule continue after nearly three decades of war in Sri Lanka’s north.
Sinhala extremists have reacted to protests in Jaffna over the killing of an 18-year-old schoolgirl by whipping up anti-Tamil communalism.
Rajapakse’s government is using de facto military rule and cheap labour in the north to attract investors.
The real target of the anti-Tamil communal campaign is the working class as a whole.
WSWS reporters recently visited the war-ravaged Vanni to speak with Tamil refugees.
WSWS reporters held discussions with several recently released detainees and their relatives, who extended their support to the SEP campaign for the immediate release of all political prisoners.
The Sri Lankan army has carried out its first major assault on Tamil civilians since the war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in May 2009.
