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COLOMBO TELEGRAPH In 1977 the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) won a landslide in the Tamil areas with 18 seats and become the main opposition party, the first Tamil party to do so. This...

COLOMBO TELEGRAPH The sharpest criticism of the Tamil National alliance (TNA) to date comes from C. V. Wicgneswaran, the TNA’s Chief Minister of the Northern Province. His criticism can be summed up as follows: TNA...

COLOMBO TELEGRAPH ‘Reform’ could be the world’s most abused word. Its meaning was defined as “make changes in order to improve”. Now it has come to mean “to rip off, normally by stealth and...

COLOMBO TELEGRAPH Dayan Jayatilleka is fundamentally wrong. As usual. Being “progressive”, from his point of view, is limited to being “anti-LTTE”. “Peace”, in his view, is only attainable by decapitating the opposition. In one of...

USP Statements The World Socialist Website (WSWS) recently published an article on their website authored by the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka in which they attacked the United Socialist Party (USP) with...

30/04/2015 Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the south Asian region has been further devastated by the recent earthquake. TU Senan, CWI Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the south Asian region...

COLOMBO TELEGRAPH The TNA leaders have begun to show just how far to the right they have travelled. It appears their every action demonstrates further their inability to both understand and respond to the developing political...

 COLOMBO TELEGRAPH The TNA leaders have begun to show just how far to the right they have travelled. It appears their every action demonstrates further their inability to both understand and respond to the developing political...

COLOMBO TELEGRAPH This is the second time I am writing to ‘defend’ MIA. The first time was in 2009. When she spoke out against the war, instead of getting a warm welcome as a major...