The opposition SJB and JVP, along with the pseudo-lefts and the trade unions, have downplayed Wikremasinghe’s threats in order to disarm the working class.
Wickremesinghe’s budget did not include any measures to address the brutal social conditions facing workers and the poor, who are struggling with hyperinflation, shortages of essentials and starvation.
Tea plantation workers at Glenugie and elsewhere must prepare for a united struggle to defend their wages and basic rights by building workers’ action committees, independent of the unions.
These remarks were delivered by Deepal Jayasekera to the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), held from September 24 to 27, 2022.
The GEWAC appeals to all workers in Glenugie estate and other plantations to join with us to build action committees in every estate independent from the trade unions and organise a common struggle for our rights.