Striking workers have voiced their anger with the Wickremesinghe government and the unions, insisting on the necessity for a unified working-class struggle to fight the escalating social attacks.
While workers fight the government’s attacks, the unions are doing everything they can to keep this movement chained to the parliamentary opposition parties that endorse the IMF’s austerity measures.
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