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US Hands Off Venezuela!

Socialist People's Forum — 2026-01-04T17:15:13Z

The Socialist People's Forum (SPF), Sri Lanka section of the Fourth International, shares the outrage and horror of people of conscience around the world, at the gangsterism of the United States of America (US) in Venezuela on 03 January 2026.

- Venezuela 2026 / Venezuela, Sri Lanka

Urgent Call for Solidarity: Support Sri Lanka's Flood and Landslide Relief Efforts 2025

Dharmasiri Lankapeli, Kalpa Rajapaksha — 2025-12-06T13:25:45Z

“This is not simply a humanitarian appeal—it is a call to uphold our shared global commitment to justice, dignity, and collective care. As climate disasters intensify, international leftist solidarity remains essential to ensure that working people everywhere can survive, rebuild, and continue the struggle for a more just world.”

- News from around the world / Sri Lanka, Solidarity after disasters

Social revolts and environmental issues in South Asia

Dominique B. — 2025-10-20T20:50:40Z

Since the 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka that ousted President Rajapaksa, South Asia has been swept by a wave of revolts that have toppled three governments and threaten most regimes.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kashmir, Nepal

In Sri Lanka, the new government's policy: a lost historic opportunity

Éric Toussaint — 2025-02-19T11:53:35Z

Éric Toussaint looks back at the situation in Sri Lanka since 2022. From popular revolts to the new centre-left government elected at the end of 2024, including negotiations with creditors, this overview provides a better understanding of the situation, rich in lessons, in a country whose social, economic and political situation is largely unknown. Éric Toussaint compares what is happening in Sri Lanka with what happened in Greece in 2015 and in Argentina between 2019 and 2023, putting into perspective the risk of a hard right-wing government in the future.

- Features / Sri Lanka, Debt

Comrade President? Change and Continuity in Sri Lanka

B. Skanthakumar — 2024-09-30T06:17:07Z

Anura Kumara Dissanayake's (AKD) victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People's Power (NPP) coalition is highly significant for symbolic and substantive reasons. His predecessors have been from the social and political elite that has mis-ruled Sri Lanka since independence from Britain in 1948. Some were born into that elite, while a couple (Ranasinghe Premadasa, Maithripala Sirisena) made their way into it through the business of politics before they occupied the presidency. In contrast, Dissanayaka's political life has been as an outsider and critic of that elite.

- IV596-September 2024 / Sri Lanka

People's Struggle Alliance Election Fund

Dharmasiri Lankapeli — 2024-08-12T10:27:13Z

The People's Struggle Alliance (PSA—Jana Aragalaya Sandanaya/Makkal Poraata Munnani) is a newly formed movement of Left political organisations and individuals active in the 2022 people's uprising (‘Aragalaya/Poraatam/Struggle') in Sri Lanka who are advancing and deepening its demand for ‘system change'. The Socialist People's Forum (SPF), supporters of the Fourth International in Sri Lanka, is among its founders.

- News from around the world / Sri Lanka

An inflexible intervention for the liberation struggle of the Tamil people!

Socialist People's Forum — 2024-07-26T13:44:24Z

Wickramabahu Karanaratne, the secretary of the New Samasamaja Party, who was ill, passed away on July 25 while undergoing treatment at the Colombo General Hospital. The press release issued by the ‘Socialist People's Forum' issuing condolence for his death is published in its entirety below.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Sri Lanka, Features

Last respect to Comrade Neil Wijethilaka amid the Revolutionary Red Salute of his comrades.

Dharmasiri Lankapeli — 2023-12-16T06:08:01Z

A well-known left-wing activist and the secretary of the Socialist People's Forum, senior trade union leader Comrade Neil Wijethilaka, was laid to rest on the afternoon of Friday 12th at the Atavilawatta Cemetery, Kalutara.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Fourth International, Sri Lanka

Under the yoke of the IMF

Éric Toussaint — 2023-10-21T19:06:00Z

Regarding the new debt crisis and the results of the Counter-summit in Marrakesh, in face of the World Bank and the IMF, CADTM translated an article from Le Courrier, a Swiss daily based in Geneva, in the issue published on Tuesday 17 October 2023. The article and the interview that follows were written by the journalist Bénito Perez.

- IV585 - October 2023 / Sri Lanka, Morocco, Debt

Stop the repression ! Release political prisoners ! Uphold democratic rights !

Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya — 2022-08-22T08:48:17Z

“On behalf of comrades of the IUSF and MONLAR, the Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya appeals to the international labour movement and all those in solidarity with the people's struggle in Sri Lanka, to launch actions for the immediate release of all political prisoners, for the repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and for the democratic rights of the peoples of Sri Lanka including freedoms of expression, association, and assembly.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Sri Lanka