Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) leader Mano Ganesan, MP, has urged Maya Sivagnanam, Deputy Director of the South Asia Region Department of Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) and High Commissioner Sarah Hulton to facilitate their full integration into what he called the Sri Lankan national mainstream polity as ‘full citizens’. The former National Integration Minister said […]
SEP and Plantation Workers Action Committee members campaigned at the Alton, Fairlawn, Glenugie, Strathspey and Gartmore estates in Maskeliya prior to Wickremesinghe’s cancelation of the local government polls.
Marking a historic day in Sri Lankan politics, representatives from several major political parties came together to discuss their views on ensuring the rights of LGBTQ Sri Lankans. Ceylon Workers’ Congress Leader, Minister Jeevan Thondaman, SLPP MP Premnath C. Dolawatte, SJB MP Mayantha Dissanayake and Freedom People’s Congress MP Prof. Charitha Herath shared their views […]
On the same day Jeevan Thondaman became a member of cabinet, the Ceylon Workers Congress announced a local electoral seat-sharing pact in the Wickremesinghe’s United National Party.
Sri Lankan plantation workers urge Pampas workers to take matters into their own hands and form their own rank-and-file committee, independent of the trade union apparatus.
Glenugie tea plantation workers are outraged after the CWC and NUW unions colluded with management to shut down a strike and enforce increased workloads. Two workers remain suspended for striking.
Tea plantation workers at Glenugie and elsewhere must prepare for a united struggle to defend their wages and basic rights by building workers’ action committees, independent of the unions.
The CWC is preparing to join the Wickremesinghe government and help it impose IMF austerity and suppress the opposition of workers and the rural masses.