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01/11/2011: Most vicious attack on unions in 13 years
01/11/2011: Study finds 1% of corporations control world economy
31/10/2011: But battles still to wage
31/10/2011: What should the next step be for the ’Occupy’ movement
30/10/2011: Review of “Too much luck” by Paul Cleary
29/10/2011: New laws to repress social protest
28/10/2011: Election ‘success story’ masks growing anger from below
27/10/2011: Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri
Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda
Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.
27/10/2011: Condemn brutal attack on media freedom, Solidarity needed!
26/10/2011: ArcelorMittal wants to close ‘liquid’ steelproduction in Liège. Workers
resist, unions call for nationalisation.
26/10/2011: Let #OccupySeattle stay at Seattle Central Community College!
26/10/2011: "Six pack" rules institutionalise austerity across the EU
25/10/2011: Clear opening for radical ideas developing
25/10/2011: Independent action by Libyan workers, youth and poor vital to prevent
revolution’s derailment
24/10/2011: Strike action wins concessions - but 4.2% is not enough!
24/10/2011: Malaysian economy enters difficult period
22/10/2011: Eurozone crisis deepens
21/10/2011: All out occupations and strikes! Kick out the Pasok cuts government! For
a revolutionary government of the workers and poor!
21/10/2011: Brutal assault as protesters hold their ground and block city streets
20/10/2011: Thousands take solidarity action
20/10/2011: Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!
20/10/2011: Violence of a few used to try and curb growing opposition
19/10/2011: CWI Taiwan members make media splash
18/10/2011: Big Victory for Occupy Wall Street Movement
18/10/2011: Anti-racist demo in Malmö
18/10/2011: Preparing for the showdown
17/10/2011: Build the mass resistance to austerity!
17/10/2011: Build for 19 October ‘independent’ unions’ strike!
15/10/2011: Austrian working class gives impressive sign of life
15/10/2011: Strikes must be democratically controlled by rank and file
15/10/2011: “Difficult times - yet we are defiant and determined!”
15/10/2011: Break the power of the banks and multinationals! Fight capitalism – for
a socialist alternative to the failed profit-driven system!
15/10/2011: EU Commissioner For Trade questioned for trade deal with Columbia
despite continuing murder of trade union activists
14/10/2011: British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble
13/10/2011: 600 to 800 students joined student strikes
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|  27/10/2011, Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI) Sri
Lanka, has made a stinging public attack on the regime of Mahinda
Rajapaksa while in Australia at the same time as the president.
CWI Reporters
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|  15/10/2011, “Difficult times - yet we are defiant and determined!”
CWI reporter
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|  14/10/2011, British Defence Secretary Fox in trouble
Manny Thain, Secretary Tamil
Solidarity, England and Wales
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|  01/09/2011, International protest demands end of death penalty against Tamil
activists
Video of protest in London, 30 August
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|  10/06/2011, Rajapakse regime shoots peaceful workers
CWI reporters, Sri Lanka
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|  07/06/2011, Tamil representatives, solidarity and human rights campaigns and
individual activists converged on the European parliament on Wednesday
(1 June)
Manny Thain, national co-ordinator, UK, Tamil Solidarity
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|  20/05/2011, Tamil Solidarity exposes the arrogant way Rajapaksa answers the UN report
Manny Thain, Tamil Solidarity
national secretary, Britain
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|  16/05/2011, The CWI supports the struggle of Tamil Solidarity and others for the
rights of all workers and oppressed people in Sri Lanka.
Tamil Solidarity
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|  13/05/2011, Socialist Party MEP speaks
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  09/03/2011, The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka, which ended in May
2009, has created more than 68,000 widows. On the other hand, there are
another 30,000 widows in the southern part of the country due to the
demise of soldiers of the government forces.
Dhammika de Silva (USP Central Committee Member)
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|  12/11/2010, Tamil people’s struggle for freedon and justice – beyond our borders
Reported by Tamil Solidarity
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|  20/10/2010, Sri Lanka has once again lived up to its reputation as one of the most
dangerous places for a journalist to work
CWI reporters, Colombo
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|  08/10/2010, United Socialist Party and the fight for democratic rights
Sritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka)
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| 29/05/2010, The Socialist Party helped organise this May Day action in support of
the Tamil refugees who were stranded in Merak, Indonesia. The footage
below includes parts of a speech delivered by SP member Mel Gregson.
Socialist Party (CWI Australia), www.socialistpartyaustralia.org |
Further articles on 'Sri Lanka':2009: - 29/12/2009: Sri Lanka: The vested interests behind the Sri Lankan regime
Manny Thain, Socialist Party - 24/12/2009: Australia: Tamil refugee dies in Merak
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Australia) - 07/11/2009: Sri Lanka: Successful Congress of United Socialist Party
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary USP (CWI Sri Lanka) - 25/10/2009: Tamil Solidarity: Campaign organises major activities in past week
socialistworld.net - 01/10/2009: Sri Lanka: Vanni Tamils - refugees within the refugee camps
Exerpt from Sentharakai (Red Star) paper of the United Socialist Party
(CWI in Sri Lanka) - 21/08/2009: Sri Lanka: Elections in war-devastated north bode ill for government
Clare Doyle, CWI - 07/07/2009: Sri Lanka: Six months since murder of Sunday Leader editor
Socialistworld.net - 02/07/2009: Sri Lanka: "War victory" celebrated
Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) - 11/06/2009: Sri Lanka: Defiant march for media freedom in Colombo
Socialistworld.net - 23/05/2009: Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party leader on death list
Elizabeth Clarke, CWI - 18/05/2009: Sri Lanka: Defeat for ‘Tigers’ deepens Tamil people’s grievances
Elizabeth Clarke, CWI - 26/04/2009: Sri Lanka: Bloody end to war, no end to national conflict
Clare Doyle, from Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI
in England & Wales) - 23/04/2009: Sri Lanka: Stop the slaughter of Tamils
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) article from Irish Daily
Mail, 22 April 2009, - 15/04/2009: Sri Lanka:: Stop the war - fight for democratic rights
Elizabeth Clarke, socialistworld.net - 09/04/2009: Sri Lanka: Stop Slaughter of Tamils international day of protests
From Jagadish Chandra in Delhi - 07/04/2009: Sri Lanka: Nightmare for Tamils
socialistworld.net - 20/03/2009: Sri Lanka: ‘End of war’ stores up major new conflicts
Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) - 19/03/2009: Sri Lanka: Anger erupts in Tamil Nadu over slaughter of Tamils in Sri
Lanka
Senan, Socialist Party (England and Wales) and recent visitor to Tamil
Nadu - 05/02/2009: Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party candidate and campaigners remanded on
trumped up charges
Srinath Perera, USP (CWI Sri Lanka) - 03/02/2009: Sri Lanka: Catastrophe in the north
United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) - 30/01/2009: Sri Lanka: Quarter of a million civilians trapped in war zone
Senan, CWI - 22/01/2009: Sri Lanka: Fall of Kilinochchi
United Socialist Party, CWI, Sri Lanka - 20/01/2009: Sri Lanka: International protests against killing of Lasantha
Wickrematunge
socialistworld.net - 14/01/2009: Sri Lanka: Ten thousand angry mourners at Lasantha funeral
Socialistworld.net - 11/01/2009: Sri Lanka: Vicious attacks on media and killing of editor
socialistworld.net
2008: - 29/08/2008: Sri Lanka: Government uses war to steam-roller victory in provincial
elections
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary of United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri
Lanka) - 15/07/2008: Sri Lanka: Elections being held in central Sri Lankan provinces
Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party, CWI in Sri Lanka - 14/07/2008: Sri Lanka: July 10 warning general strike marks new beginning
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary United Socialist Party, CWI Sri Lanka - 18/06/2008: Sri Lanka: Twenty-fifth aniversary of bloody pogroms nears
Senan, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales - 20/05/2008: Sri Lanka: Elections in the teeth of violence.
Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary United Socialist Party, cwi Sri Lanka - 09/05/2008: Sri Lanka : United Socialist Party’s May Day
socialistworld.net - 30/04/2008: Sri Lanka: Twenty five years of war and conflict
Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party, CWI, Sri Lanka - 22/02/2008: Sri Lanka: Full scale war
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary, United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) - 04/01/2008: Sri Lanka: New year starts with atrocities
Senan, Socialist Party (England and Wales)
2007: - 09/11/2007: Sri Lanka: Socialists condemn latest killings
Senan, Socialist Party (England and Wales) - 10/08/2007: Sri Lanka: Obituary - Life-long Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies in London, 4
August, 2007
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) - 16/07/2007: Sri Lanka: Fourth Eelam War under way
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka) - 03/05/2007: Sri Lanka: May day 2007 - Best ever May Day for United Socialist Party
- 16/03/2007: Sri Lanka: Brutal attack on leader of the United Socialist Party
- 10/03/2007: Sri Lanka: Senior police officer admits police and military involvement
in abductions
Simon Van Haeren, CWI, London - 09/02/2007: Sri Lanka: ‘Confessions’ of Sinhala worker ‘Terrorists’ opens way for
more government attacks
Elizabeth Clarke, cwi, London - 02/02/2007: Sri Lanka: Solidarity campaign still gathering momentum!
socialistworld.net - 02/02/2007: Sri Lanka: Campaign against chauvinism and oppression
Simon Van Haeren - 30/01/2007: Sri Lanka: Journalists protest against violent repression
A Colombo journalist reports - 30/01/2007: Sri Lanka: World-wide protest at government’s thug methods
socialistworld.net - 29/01/2007: Sri Lanka: International protests follow vicious attack at anti-war
rally.
socialistworld.net - 29/01/2007: Sri Lanka: Ireland - Socialists demand action against thugs
- 15/01/2007: Sri Lanka: Government blamed for violent attack on anti-war rally
organisers
- 09/01/2007: Sri Lanka: Murderous raid on Anti-War Rally in Colombo
Elizabeth Clarke, CWI
2006: - 23/12/2006: Sri Lanka: The plantation volcano erupts
T. S. Jainndeen, United Socialist Party - 08/12/2006: Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party holds successful congress as country’s
crisis deepens
Elizabeth Clarke, CWI, Colombo - 29/11/2006: Sri Lanka: War preparations must be stopped!
Socialistworld.net - 19/11/2006: Sri Lanka: World-wide protests over murdered MP continue.
socialistworld.net - 17/11/2006: Sri Lanka: World-wide protests at killing of Tamil MP
socialistworld.net - 12/11/2006: Sri Lanka: Tamil MP killed for speaking out
socialistworld.net - 25/10/2006: Sri Lanka: Is Peace possible?
Peter Taaffe, Committee for a Workers’ International, London - 25/10/2006: Sri Lanka: End the war and the abductions now!
Ulrika Waaranperä, Stockholm, Sweden and Simon Van Haeren, London,
Wednesday 25 October 2006 - 05/10/2006: Sri Lanka: Action demanded to end persecution of Sri Lanka’s Tamils
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri
Lanka) speaks to socialistworld.net: - 15/06/2006: Sri Lanka: Civilian bus tragedy could mark return to full-scale war
Clare Doyle, CWI London - 29/05/2006: Sri Lanka: Elections and the menace of war
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary of United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri
Lanka) - 25/04/2006: Sri Lanka: Bamb blast in Colombo points to war
Senan, Socialist Party (England and Wales), Tuesday 25 of April 2006 - 31/03/2006: Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party (CWI) wins council seat
Clare Doyle, CWI - 24/01/2006: Sri Lanka: War looms
Clare Doyle, cwi - 10/01/2006: Sri Lanka: The never ending Tsunami
Senan, cwi, London
2005: - 18/11/2005: Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party (cwi) comes third in presidential
election
Clare Doyle, cwi - 06/11/2005: Sri Lanka: “After war, tsunami and corruption, they won’t vote for
anyone”
socialistworld.net - 02/11/2005: Sri Lanka: Stalled peace process background to 2005 presidential election
Clare Doyle, cwi - 30/10/2005: Sri Lanka: Presidential Election 2005 - United Socialist Party goes to
court
Srinath Pereira, Executive Committee member, United Socialist Party (CWI
Sri Lanka) - 30/10/2005: Sri Lanka: United Socialist Party Manifesto for Presidential elections
United Socialist Party, Sri Lanks - 12/10/2005: Sri Lanka: Presidential Election campaign begins
Clare Doyle, cwi - 12/10/2005: Sri Lanka: Presidential Election campaign begins
Socialistworld.net - 30/09/2005: Sri Lanka: Presidential Election - Socialists challenge capitalist and
communalist candidates
Siritunga Jayasuriya, United Socialist Party (cwi Sri Lanka) - 23/08/2005: Sri Lanka: Facing a ‘Political Tsunami’
Siritunga Jayasuriya, 18 August 2005 - 20/06/2005: Sri Lanka: Sinhala chauvinist party quits government over tsunami relief
Laurence Coates spoke to Siri Jayasuria, General Secretary, United
Socialist Party (CWI), Sri Lanka - 10/06/2005: Sri Lanka: Tea workers; one euro a day!
Laurence Coates - 10/06/2005: Tea workers: one euro a day!
A report from Laurence Coates who recently visited Nuwara Eliya in Sri
Lanka - 04/05/2005: Sri Lanka: Socialist May Day in Sri Lanka: 01
- 02/05/2005: Sri Lanka: Socialist May Day in Colombo
Laurence Coates, CWI, in Colombo - 12/04/2005: Sri Lanka: Three months after the tsunami, government inaction fuels the
flame of protest
Peter Taaffe, cwi - 29/03/2005: Sri Lanka: Fighting back against capitalism and chauvinism
socialistworld.net - 25/02/2005: Sri Lanka: Tsunami and since
Siritunga Jayasuriya, General Secretary United Socialist Party (cwi, Sri
Lanka), and Jagadish Chandra, Socialist Alternative (cwi, India) - 10/02/2005: Sri Lanka: Tsunami people on the streets
Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary of the United Socialist Party, Sri Lanka - 01/01/2005: Sri Lanka: latest news and appeal for help
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