Wasantha Rupasinghe News Today

We are publishing here the tribute to Comrade Helen Halyard given by Wasantha Rupasinghe, a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka, to the memorial meeting held for Helen on December 3.

Ratnayake has dedicated his entire adult life, encompassing some six decades, to the fight for the socialist emancipation of the working class and the oppressed masses.

The Frontline Socialist Party and Inter University Student Federation, which posture as champions of democratic rights at press conferences and meetings, violently oppose the IYSSE and students exercising their democratic rights on university campuses.

The IYSSE has issued an open letter opposing attempts by the pseudo-left Inter University Students Federation and student union thugs to ban the Trotskyist youth movement, and any discussion of its program, from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura.

SEP congress was held under extraordinary political conditions in Sri Lanka, amid an immense global crisis of capitalism, intensified by the pandemic, the US-NATO proxy war against Russia and the international upsurge of the class struggle.