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The SEP warns that while the Galle Face Green protest organisers say “no politics,” they are smuggling in the politics of the opposition parties, which like the government, are committed to implementing the IMF’s austerity measures.

The state power entity said there will be four and a half-hour power cuts on Monday. Adding to public issues is the Lanka Indian oil company (LIOC) announcement of further price hikes for petrol and diesel with effect from Sunday midnight.

Wije Dias, the SEP general secretary, said the party was proposing the abolition of the executive presidency and the fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government.

The inability to find a finance minister only underscores the enormity of the economic and political crisis engulfing the government and Colombo political establishment as whole.

Neither the government nor the opposition parties have any solution to the hunger and want facing working people. The SEP is advancing a program of action for the working class which alone can resolve the immense social and economic crisis.

The stoppage was called by the Glenugie Estate Workers Action Committee, which was formed with the support of the Socialist Equality Party.

The mass protests are continuing throughout the island fueled by desperate shortages of food items, fuel, medicines and electricity.

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The political turmoil will further intensify today with the convening of parliament where all the signs point to the ruling coalition losing its majority.

Workers must recognise that they are facing a political fight not only against the government but the entire political establishment that defends capitalism and supports austerity measures.