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The SEP is calling on all those concerned to defend democratic rights to register their opposition to the attack on our members by sending protest letters to the relevant Sri Lankan authorities.
“The Alton Plantation Workers Action Committee strongly condemns this assault, and we consider the attack against SEP members, who are in the forefront of the struggle for workers’ rights, as an attack on the basic democratic rights of all workers.”
“The attempts of the PPSS and SLPP to intimidate our comrades, workers and young people with cowardly acts of violence will fail.”–International Youth and Students for Social Equality in the United States
The meeting unanimously passed a resolution condemning the government’s attacks on Ceylon Electricity Board workers and demanded the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of all suspended workers.