“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
US and UK academics and WSWS arts writers denounce the violent assault on Dehin Wasantha and Lakshman Fernando by pro-government union leaders at Moratuwa university.
The SEP and its sister parties of the ICFI have launched a campaign in defence of Fernando and Wasantha, and the SEP’s democratic right to conduct political campaigns.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.