Beginnings of fight-back against dictatorial Rajapakse regime
Leaders of opposition parties and trade unions in Sri Lanka turned out on a defiant protest in Colombo against the dictatorial regime of Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday, June 10.
By CWI reporters

The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) has received a copy of a vile communication put out by Sinhala chauvinist hate-mongers in the wake of the defeat of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam. Amongst the portraits of those they want killed are NGO activists, Indian politicians and five Sri Lankan politicians including Siritunga Jayasuriya, [...]

Public meeting in Melbourne this Wednesday
“This battle has reached its bitter end…We have decided to silence our guns”. The dramatic announcement on the website of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), on Sunday 17 May, seemed to indicate that the 27 year-long civil war in Sri Lanka had ended. The LTTE has suffered a [...]

SP Newsletter No.262
Hundreds of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka were killed last weekend as a result of heavy artillery shelling in the war zone - a few square kilometres of coastal strip containing around 100,000 Tamil civilians and LTTE guerrillas.

The Sri Lankan Army is pursuing a relentless and bloody battle for the last piece of ground held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north-east of the country. Ignoring mounting international pleas for a ceasefire and a declared halt to the fighting by the LTTE, they have pushed their way into [...]

On 16 April, voting began in the first of five stages of the 15th general election to the Lok Sabha (National Parliament) in India. No less than 300 national and local parties are taking part. New Socialist Alternative, our sister party in India, has issued the following statement.
Statement by New Socialist Alternative, CWI in India

20 years ago this week the mass student protests in Beijing began
On 15 April 1989 Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, died of a heart attack. This became the start signal for one of the biggest mass movements in modern history, a movement that soon grew beyond the wildest [...]

Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister, Najib Razak, took office on 3rd April from his predecessor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, after he was elected as UMNO president. This transition took effect under immense pressure within UMNO (United Malay Nationalist Organization), the dominant party of the Barisan Nasional (National Front) government.
By Raviechandren, CWI Malaysia

SP Newsletter No.258
A temporary calm has returned to the streets of Bangkok and other cities of Thailand. On 14 April, protest leader Prateep Ungsongtham Hata said: “We held talks among the leaders since last night and have agreed that we will disperse our protesters for a while.”

More than 30 market research call centre workers in Auckland have been illegally locked out by their employer Synovate. The lock out started after the workers turned down a tiny pay offer – an increase of only 20 cents an hour! The union, Unite, has responded with pickets and protests.