Workers' Liberty

For Peace in Sri Lanka
For the right to self-determination for the Tamil people
Against chauvinism and communalism
For international workers’ solidarity against capitalist war and exploitation

An analogy may help to explain the issues - the case of Ceylon/ Sri Lanka. I assume Geoff Bell and Socialist Outlook are in favour of the right of the Tamils to secede from the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan state and set up their own state. But how did things in Ceylon/ Sri Lanka turn out like this? Look at the history.

The national conflict in Sri Lanka, so little reported in the mainstream UK media, is visibly deepening. In 2006, the recently elected president Mahinda Rajapakse in effect ended a ceasefire agreement brokered by the Norwegians in 2002.

The NSSP, the Sri Lankan section of the Fourth International network (groups linked to the LCR in France), is campaigning to oppose the Sri Lankan government’s military onslaught against the Tamil people. It has launched a statement now signed by thirty FI and other socialist organisations across the world.