The SEP leads the fight against company, police and union witch-hunt of Sri Lankan plantation workers
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Comrades,
As part of the developing class struggle globally, working class struggles are emerging in Sri Lanka, India and the rest of South Asia.
Hundreds of thousands of plantation workers in Sri Lanka took strike action on February 5 demanding a daily wage increase to 1,000 rupees [about $US5]. The Ceylon Workers’ Congress (CWC), the main plantation union, a partner of the government of President Gotabhaya Rajapakse, did not call this action to mobilise workers against the government and plantation companies, but to let off steam under conditions of mounting anger among the workers over the companies’ refusal to accept even a meagre rise in daily wages.