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Sri Lanka: Hundreds of plantation workers strike to defend jobs and social rights0
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- January 23, 2021
World Socialist Web Site Our correspondent Over 500 Gartmore Estate workers at Maskeliya in central Sri Lanka remain on strike after walking out on December 28 to defend their jobs and social rights. On Wednesday, the strikers rejected an attempt by the plantation unions to push them back to work. Gartmore workers are demanding a
READ MOREIndia moves to strengthen strategic relations with Sri Lanka and the Maldives0
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- December 14, 2020
14 December 2020 Rohantha De Silva India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval visited Colombo late last month to participate in a Trilateral Maritime Security Cooperation meeting. Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Major General (Rtd.) Kamal Gunaratne, represented Sri Lanka, and Mariya Didi, the Minister of Defence, represented the Maldives at the meeting. Revived after
READ MOREModi maneuvers as support for Indian farmers’ protest swells0
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- December 8, 2020
Wasantha Rupasinghe 8 December 2020 Indian farmers have called for a four-hour Bharat bandh (all-India shutdown) from 11 AM to 3 PM today to press their demand that the country’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government rescind a series of recently-adopted laws that put them at the mercy of domestic and international agribusiness. Several hundred thousand farmers,
READ MOREIndia’s unprecedented economic contraction deepens mass social misery0
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- November 20, 2020
Kranti Kumara 20 November 2020 The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s incompetent and chaotic response to the COVID-19 pandemic has created an unmitigated socio-economic and medical disaster, with tens of millions of workers and their families forced to go hungry due to job and income losses and the pandemic raging across the country
READ MORESri Lankan parliament boosts president’s autocratic powers0
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- October 26, 2020
K. Ratnayake 26 October 2020 Last Thursday, the Sri Lankan parliament rubber-stamped the 20th Amendment to the constitution, which gives sweeping autocratic powers to the executive presidency—in line with the demands of President Gotabhaya Rajapakse,, who was elected last November. Rajapakse’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)-led alliance government secured the votes of 156 MPs,
READ MOREIMF reports on global economy: Political conclusions0
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- October 17, 2020
Nick Beams 17 October 2020 One of the most significant issues to emerge from the reports prepared by the International Monetary Fund for its semi-annual meeting conducted from Washington this week is the total dependence of the global capitalist economy and its financial system on the state. It was not the intention of their authors,
READ MORENorth and East of Sri Lanka paralysed by mass anti-government protest0
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- October 15, 2020
A series of protests are currently underway across the North-East today as Tamils across the homeland commemorated the death of LTTE’s Lt Col Thileepan, despite a Sri Lankan court ban and intimidation from the security forces. Politicians, including from the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), joined civil society members and
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US Secretary of State Pompeo to visit Sri Lanka amid rising anti-China provocations0
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- October 15, 2020
Vijith Samarasinghe 15 October 2020 Sri Lanka’s secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs Admiral Jayanath Colambage announced last weekend that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Sri Lanka during his scheduled trip to India at the end of this month. Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark Esper are visiting New Delhi
READ MOREIndia’s Supreme Court punishes prominent lawyer for criticizing its role in assault on democratic rights0
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- September 11, 2020
By Kranti Kumara 11 September 2020 Despite a public outcry, India’s Supreme Court has convicted and sentenced prominent Indian lawyer Prashant Bhushan for “contempt of court” for having accused it of complicity in the far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s assault on democratic rights. The court’s victimization of Bhushan for his trenchant remarks is a
READ MOREUS airstrikes in Afghanistan hit ten-year high in 20190
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- January 29, 2020
By Niles Niemuth 29 January 2020 The US Air Force reported Monday that it carried out more airstrikes in Afghanistan in 2019 than any year in the last decade. Manned and unmanned aircraft dropped 7,423 bombs, topping the previous decade high of 7,362 in 2018. Nearly two decades into its criminal neocolonial occupation, the United
READ MOREThe murder of Qassem Soleimani and assassination as state policy0
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- January 4, 2020
4 January 2020 Bill Van Auken With its drone missile assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and seven others at Baghdad’s international airport in the early morning hours of Friday, the Trump administration has carried out a criminal act of state terrorism that has stunned the world. Washington’s cold-blooded murder of a general in the
READ MOREIran, Russia and China hold joint naval drills in Indian Ocean amid US war threats0
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- December 30, 2019
By Alex Lantier | 30 December 2019 | wsws Iranian, Russian and Chinese warships are finishing today a four-day naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman, near the Iranian coast and the oil-rich Persian Gulf. The exercise marked the first time that Moscow and Beijing sent warships for joint maneuvers with Iranian forces in the
READ MOREIndian army chief denounces mass protests against BJP government’s anti-Muslim citizenship law0
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- December 30, 2019
By Wasantha Rupasinghe and Keith Jones | 30 December 2019 | wsws Echoing the lies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders of the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the head of the Indian Army, General Bipin Rawat, has accused the opponents of the BJP’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA of
READ MOREMass protests erupt against Modi-led Indian government’s Hindu supremacist agenda0
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- December 18, 2019
By Keith Jones 17 December 2019 Mass protests against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s Hindu supremacist “Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019” continued yesterday, spreading to cities across India. Many of the protests were led by university students angered both by the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the police’s violent assault on students at Jamia
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