AWL London forum: socialists and the war in Sri Lanka
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The Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker Street (Farringdon or Kings Cross tube)
The Sri Lankan government's war on the Tamils, stepped up at the end of last year, has left many thousands dead - yet the British left, which has rightly mobilised on a large scale in support of the Palestinians, has had relatively little to say. We need a working-class anti-war movement that opposes capitalist and imperialist wars around the world, not just those conflicts that fit into the Afghanistan-Iraq-Palestine master narrative of the current mainstream anti-war movement.
We will be discussing the origins and nature of the conflict, where Sri Lanka fits into global politics, how we can support the Tamils' struggle for self-determination, and building links with Sri Lanka's socialist and working-class movements, movements which have an inspiring revolutionary history.
Speaker: Robin Sivapalan (Workers' Liberty)
