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Wednesday’s strikes and protests powerfully indicate the determination of workers to fight the government’s social attacks. By contrast, the trade unions did everything they could limit to the industrial action.
The government’s new law has nothing to do with “rehabilitating” drug addicts but is to incarcerate workers, youth and political opponents, without any judicial determination, in military-run centres.
The strike was the first this year and expressed the growing anger of workers over the deepening assault on their basic social and democratic rights by the government as it imposes the IMF’s austerity agenda.
During the budget debate, Wickremesinghe threatened to crush anti-government struggles imposing a state of emergency and deploying military and police forces.