Category: South Asia

  • Launch of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’

    Following is the founding statement of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’ that was launched in Bangalore on 2nd June, 2011. The forum, which incudes New Socialist Alternative (CWI – India), was launched in response to the reports that have been percolating on the alleged war atrocities that was carried out by the Sri…

  • Forum against War Crimes and Genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka

    After the launch of the ‘Forum against War Crimes and Genocide’ (in response to the reports of war atrocities in Sri Lanka) on 2nd June of this year in Bangalore by various civil society organizations, human rights groups and political organizations (from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and New Delhi), which includes the New…

  • Sri Lanka: Another rigged election

    What is the way forward now? One more election under the Rajapakse administration has been concluded. It finished on 17 March. The Election Commissioner himself, having served for a long time in the post and going into retirement after the election, lambasted the government and President Rajapakse for abuse of his position in the course…

  • Sri Lanka: War Heroes Were Needed, but War Widows Are Discarded

    March 8th the ‘International Women’s day’ this year is remembered and celebrated at the time, when people in most of the countries are fighting for democracy. A large number of women in the Arab countries are in the forefront in these epoch making struggles. The genocidal war in the north and east of Sri Lanka,…

  • Release the arrested trade union leaders

    Stop terrorising the workers movement Azam Janjua, organiser TURCP Islamabad and vice president PWFP The four leaders of a cement factory in Lucky Marwat have been arrested under the Anti-Terrorism Act on 19th September in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province. The police have registered a case against 21 union leaders and activists. The police are trying to…

  • ViBGYOR International Film Festival – 2010 Kerala India

    Siritunga Jayasuriya Addressing the Conference on “Justice, Peace and Democracy in South Asia” The Fifth ViBGYOR International Short and International Film Festival was held at Sangeeta Nataka Academy Campus, Thrissur in Kerala, India from February 16th to 21st, 2010. Approximately 100 short and documentary films were screened at the festival. ViBGYOR promotes films with alternative…

  • Video: LTTE to bounce back if defeated by Lankan army – Siritunga Jayasurya

    The following video link is is an interview with Siritunga Jayasuriya, a leader of Sri Lanka’s United Socialist Party (CWI – Sri Lanka), who was on a visit to India in February and March of this year to campaign against the war against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. According to Siri, LTTE will retaliate if…

  • Stop the War in Sri Lanka

    This article appeared in the March 2009 edition of the Appeared in CPI (ML) March 2009 edition of Liberation, CPI (ML) monthly journal. The following article is an interview of Siritunga Jayasurya, United Socialist Party (CWI- Sri Lanka) on the ongoing war against the Tamils in Sri Lanka. (Siritunga Jayasuriya, currently the General Secretary of…

  • Protesters in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai joined hundreds of others around the world on 8 April

    Indian government told to stop support of murderous Rajapakse regime Protesters in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai joined hundreds of others around the world on 8 April demanding an immediate ceasefire and end to the slaughter of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. (In London, thousands of Tamils have been occupying Parliament Square for days. Eds.)…

  • An Interview With Siritunga Jayasuriya

    By Meena Kandasamy This interview appeared in http://www.countercurrents.org on 4th March, 2009 during the height of the bloody war against the Tamils in Sri Lanka by the Sri Lanka government. The interview was conducted by Meena Kandasamy (poet, writer and Dalit activist based in Chennai) with Siritunga Jayasurya, General Secretary, United Socialist Party (CWI –…